This new product combines Eversheds Sutherland Consulting ‘Unity’ system and the ‘Custodian’ platform developed by email and document management software experts Repstor. ES/Unity will support legal teams tasked with driving innovation and efficiency in online legal matter and document management allowing them to leverage a complete matter lifecycle management solution built exclusively for the O365/SharePoint platform. ES/Unity delivers scalable and sophisticated Management Information (MI) for legal teams and is deployable practically anywhere in the world.     

Driving efficiencies

Head of Eversheds Sutherland Consulting Graham Richardson said: ‘We work with many legal teams to help them find innovative new ways to drive efficiencies and operational effectiveness and, although many realise the need for better technology tools, they find it hard to find the right provider and right price. ES/Unity is built by lawyers for lawyers and provides a slick matter management solution that is cost effective and, crucially, easy to implement.’

Joint venture

To provide the new offering, Eversheds Sutherland Consulting will enter into a joint venture with UK-based software provider Repstor. Built exclusively for the Microsoft SharePoint/O365 platform and offering native integration into Microsoft Outlook, the software has been designed from the outset to be Cloud ready but also have the flexibility to be deployed on client’s own networks if required.  Eversheds Sutherland Consulting will focus on project management and working with clients to maximise the business benefits of using legal matter management technology, with Repstor providing the technical software expertise.