Technology Consulting Services

Legal IT infrastructure design and management continues to become increasingly more complex as law firm and corporate legal departments' productivity relies more heavily than ever on the reliable use of laptops, network infrastructure, servers, PDAs and phones.

Rafte & Company is the legal technology consulting organization that understands the importance of every legal technology asset. We partner with law firms and corporate legal departments to manage every legal IT touch point. Our highly skilled legal IT professionals can help you stay in control of critical information resources by providing consistent and predictable performance and delivering access that is unquestionably secure.

We offer a full array of Technology Consulting Services, including designing an appropriate infrastructure to meet your unique needs, procuring, implementing and migrating the assets from old to new, and offering ongoing management and support of the IT infrastructure.

Rafte & Company's team can assess, design, implement, and manage the following applications as part of its Technology Consulting Services:

• Strategic technology planning
• Network design
• Project Management
• E-mail Management
• Network/Desktop operating systems
• Core network components, including servers, hubs, switches and routers
• Backup systems
• Communications: Intranets, Extranets and Virtual private networks (VPN)
• System upgrades and migration
• Security
• Help desk software
• Inventory management systems

Unfortunately, many law firms and corporate legal departments underestimate the importance of a solid IT backbone and the costs associated with appropriate implementation of same, including the effort required for development and maintenance.

Additionally, the need to properly train partners, associates and staff when technology initiatives are implemented is often overlooked, the result of which only being realized after the fact when it is discovered that productivity is suffering.

Rafte & Company works proactively to resolve tough legal information technology issues in order to help you get more value from your infrastructure investment.