AQX Law Firm Essential: At the Top of Every Law Firm’s Wish List
This past year has been an exciting and busy year for the Law Firm Business Unit. One of the key initiatives we are thrilled to announce is the launch of AQX Law Firm Essential™, our way of enabling firms to get started faster with AQX Law Firm. In this blog, Jayne Durden, VP of Law Firm Strategy, Joe Bichanich, Client Director, Global Law Firms, and Jon Pullen, Director of Professional Services who have been integral to this new offering sat down to discuss AQX Law Firm Essential.
What is AQX Law Firm Essential and why now?
Jayne: Investing in new technology can be daunting. It’s a significant investment of time, money, and resources. It involves buy-in across a law firm into a new way of working and trying to determine whether the technology will even perform the way you want it to.
A lot of firms have an appetite for change, yet they’re concerned about introducing a new system. With our expertise in the law firm industry, we know that biting off smaller pieces of change and working with an IP technology partner to plan for change is crucial.
This is how AQX Law Firm Essential helps. In working with hundreds of leading law firms, we’ve learned what makes for an efficient and effective IP law firm and built those best practices into Essential. And you can get started straight away! AQX Law Firm Essential provides a streamlined implementation process to get your firm up and running as little as 12-14 weeks depending on the size of your firm.
Why did Anaqua launch AQX Law Firm Essential?
Joe: Anaqua has been partnering with its law firm customers and the industry at large—and we’ve responded to shape best practice processes, reports, and configurations to fit law firm’s needs. We’ve invested in people that understand law firms and developed products that offer up a richer experience to law firms.
Jayne: I am passionate about driving change for law firms across the globe. AQX Law Firm was the first step in our law firm strategy but now, we’re pushing forward to make our platform easier to access for all law firms. AQX Law Firm Essential offers a turnkey solution for law firms with the potential to grow and evolve at the same time.
AQX Law Firm Essential offers a turnkey solution for law firms with the potential to grow and evolve at the same time.
Are there other benefits you’d like to mention?
Jayne: Yes! In AQX Law Firm Essential, there are powerful automation features, dynamic dashboards for collaborating with clients, integrated analytics, and law firms can take advantage of Anaqua Connect™. The best practice workflow reports and dashboards are ready to go for you. But unlike other products in the market, you’re not stuck there.
Once you’ve gone live and you’re using the product, you can start to truly configure it. You can work to make it your own, responding to client-specific requirements and differentiating your businesses from other firms. Joe then collaborates and stays with your firm to help maximize the capabilities in AQX Law Firm Essential.
Joe: This is your chance to have a system that gives you the things you need but grows with you—these features are ready for you when you are ready to use them.
Why should law firms invest in AQX Law Firm Essential?
Jon: More and more law firms are being exposed to AQX on a daily basis and being asked to work in AQX by their corporate clients. There is a lot of opportunity for law firms already working in AQX– they know the power of the system.
Many of these same law firms, though, are currently working in an outdated system of their own. In moving to AQX Law Firm Essential, the core of what a law firms need is at your fingertips. This enables and frees up time for your team to focus on billable work for clients and other projects.
Anaqua Connect™ will also be available in AQX Law Firm Essential. Law firms using AQX Law Firm Essential won't need to do double docketing anymore and this can help differentiate a firm’s position in the market.
Jayne: Law firms looking to the future need a product that’s going to take them there. This doesn’t mean you have to do everything right now. Anaqua is offering law firms the option to move to AQX Law Firm Essential—our product with best-practice configurations and streamlined implementation.
In this highly competitive environment, law firms know they need to make a change. It’s clear that firms can’t be sustainable if they don’t look closely at efficiencies. A lot of firms are now using technology that is being sunset, with our competitors turning away from law firms. Now is an excellent opportunity to get more out of your technology, at a pace that suits you.