For managing partners and COOs
What Wemble changes.
When partners cannot see who has room across groups and offices, the firm pays for hours that no one bills, and the cost never appears as a line in the accounts.
Room in one office, overload in another.
Lawyers report how busy they are from Teams, Outlook or the iPhone app; partners see the whole group across offices. What it is worth: the hours a person with room bills on a matter that would otherwise have gone to someone already full, or been declined. The time-recording system shows what was billed last month; Wemble shows who has room while the week is still ahead.
Urgent matters staffed in hours.
Without a current picture, a partner calls around and waits for replies. With Wemble, the partner filters for people who have room and have done the work, and contacts them directly.
At Faber Daeufer & Itrato, the time to staff an urgent matter went from half a day to one to two hours.
From the firm’s published case study.
Read the case studyOverload and underuse, while there is time to act.
Statistics show who has been at capacity, or had room, more than 80 percent of the time, next to the hours they record. Associates star the work they want more of, so development wishes are in front of the partner when work is handed out.
One departing associate can cost a firm up to $500,000, counting recruiting, onboarding, and the months before a replacement is fully productive.
Source: The NALP Foundation, Update on Associate Attrition, CY 2017.
Your numbers
Estimate the current cost with your own figures.
Two estimates of today’s cost at a firm your size. The figures are examples; replace them with your own. They show the cost, not how much of it Wemble recovers.
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Start with one practice group.
Set Wemble up for one group. After a month, ask one question: are people still keeping it current?