Legal

Client documentation, signed engagements and deadlines that do not move.

Law firms

Tax and payroll advisersGoing furtherHundreds of clients sending the same things every month, and always late.
Law and accountancy firms: client paperworkGoing furtherRequesting it, keeping it findable, and handing it back whole when the time comes.
The document room in a dealAdvancedWho saw what, when, and why that matters more than the folder.
The firm holding its clients' recordsAdvancedYou hold the papers of two hundred companies and none is yours. That makes your archive the problem, not the solution.

Corporate and commercial

Contract law

Employment

Running payroll and HR for several clientsGoing furtherMany different calendars, many deadlines, and data about people who are not yours.

Tax

Public and planning

Justifying a public grantAdvancedThe hard part is not getting it: it is proving, two years later, that it was spent on what you said.

Real estate

The file behind a property dealGoing furtherWhat delays a signing is rarely the price: it is a document that expired while the deal was being negotiated.

Banking and finance

Handing over the same thing every quarterGoing furtherThe same list, four times a year, always in a rush and always hunted down in the same different places.

Insolvency and restructuring

Coming in to rebuild someone else's archiveAdvancedYou arrive at a company where people are leaving and systems are being switched off. Every week there is less to rebuild and fewer people to ask.

Mergers and acquisitions

Opening your books in order to sellAdvancedThe price is agreed on a figure and adjusted by whatever surfaces. Everything you do not find, the buyer will.

Competition

Receiving a visit with no noticeAdvancedThey arrive in the morning, unannounced, and they choose what to take. The only thing you can prepare is what comes before.

Intellectual property

Intellectual property: proving it was yoursAdvancedRegistering is one thing and proving it existed earlier is another. You usually need both.

Data protection

Handling third-party data in a firmGoing furtherThey are neither yours nor your client's: they belong to your client's staff and customers.

Technology

Passing the requirement down the chainAdvancedYour client makes demands of you and you depend on four suppliers who have never heard of them. You are what holds the chain up.

Compliance

ESG and regulatory

The supplier sent a questionnaireGoing furtherForty questions from a client who does not negotiate, with a deadline and nobody to ask what they mean.

Insurance

Insurance broking and claimsGoing furtherDocumentation arriving at the worst moment, on deadlines that do not wait.

Litigation

Deadlines and evidence in proceedingsGoing furtherDocumenting what was requested, when it arrived and what was communicated, without relying on memory.

Arbitration and mediation

Proving it with whatever you keptAdvancedThe argument is no longer who is right: it is who can show it. And there is a deadline, and no second round.

International law

When the requirement comes from another countryAdvancedYou are asked for a document that in your country has another name, no issuer and no exact equivalent. The clock runs anyway.

Immigration

Permits for foreign workersGoing furtherDocuments that belong to the person and not the company, with their own dates, and that stop the work if they lapse.

Family and succession

Separating what is yours from what is sharedGoing furtherTwenty years of two people's papers in the same folders. Sorting them is half the matter, and nobody counts it as work.

Notaries and registries

Legaltech and consulting

The firm changing toolsGoing furtherTwenty years of case files and a new tool. Whatever does not travel in the migration stops existing for the firm.