Fieldfisher is an international law firm
headquartered in London.
We're in 11 countries
and we have 22 offices,
and we are particularly well known
for our focus on four particular sectors,
which is renewable energy
and natural resources,
financial markets,
technology, and life sciences.
Particularly during the COVID crisis,
we have seen the opportunity to make use
of obviously trial-based software.
Perhaps some of the things actually
which was potentially going
to cause us some challenge,
how we dealt with with checks,
and trying to get them signed
was going to be challenging
when everybody was working from home.
At that point,
we could assess how the investments
had actually prepared us
for a situation like that.
We have managed to make
ourselves more resilient
than we had expected.
When we eventually went
live with Dynamics 365,
we turned off, I think,
something like 11 legacy systems.
So we were able to bring
everything together
in one place, which was very helpful.
And of course, as a law firm,
we're a heavy user of the
Microsoft Office Suite.
And so this seemed to be just
a natural development of that
to bring all of the firm's
data together into one place
and to work seamlessly.
The platform, Dynamics for
Finance and Operations,
is built in the Microsoft
Agile methodology.
And there will always be
updates automatically,
behind the scenes, to the system.
Dynamics forms the hub,
if you like, of the firm,
from fee earners as recording their time,
claiming expenses, booking holidays,
through obviously the purchase and
the payment cycle, our billing cycles,
and of course, the general
ledger and the general reporting
that we're required to do.
Obviously Scotland Business
has gone into end of life,
and its natural replacement
is Microsoft Teams.
So we've just embarked on a journey
of implementation of that solution.
I think it demonstrates
how the Microsoft suite
will work to really produce that overview
of what's going on in the firm
in a way that perhaps
even just a few years ago
we could only dream of.