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Major Shifts in Law Firm and Professional Services Companies Drive Need to Address Their Time and Billing Systems

noemail@rafte.com — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Rafte & Company, a leading provider of business and technology consulting services for law firms and other professional services firms, is seeing major shifts in doing business, including: alternative billing practices, corporate-client demands for tighter cost report and controls and distributed or remote team collaboration. These shifts are driving the need to readdress if a firm's current time and billing system is meeting their needs. We have been working with law firms and professional services companies for more than 25 years, and I would have to say that our clients are currently experiencing the most significant shift in business practices over the last two decades. Bottom line, corporate-clients are under pressure to control costs, especially as we navigate this economic downturn, said Dena Rafte, president and CEO of Rafte & Company. We are helping our clients take a deep breath and help them pragmatically align a time and billing system...

Rafte & Company Helps Law Firms Move and Transition to Meet Market Needs

noemail@rafte.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON Aug. 19, 2009 – For more than 25 years, Rafte & Company has helped law firms of all sizes and practice areas grow and transition their firms to meet market requirements. The new Legal Transition Practice formalizes Rafte & Company’s commitment to support law firms with each transitional phase of a legal practice, including:

Strategic retreats to support mergers, acquisitions, divestures or spinoffs to proactively approach: culture integration, matter management, alignment of business process, and client succession planning
Business scalability to support growth or downsizing in a market
Succession planning
IT equipment inventory, break-fix, replacement and centralized support planning
Identification, review, and recommendations of fit-for-need technology solutions
Data integration and protection
Contact relationship management (CRM) solutions for merging organization
Website development
Disconnect, pack, move and setup a firm’s IT infrastructure floor-to-floor, building-to-building, city-to-city, and state-to-state

“Today’s economic climate has created an influx of change for many law firms. Managing partners and IT directors need a vendor-neutral advisor to help them navigate through their firm’s changes in a pragmatic, cost-effective manner. We are very excited about offering our knowledge and expertise as a formal practice,” said Rafte & Company President and CEO, Dena Rafte.

About Rafte & Company

Established in 1983 with headquarters in Houston, Texas; Rafte & Company specializes in designing, implementing and managing strategic business and technology consulting solutions, remote collaboration systems, document management software solutions, legal software support, IT design and management services. To inquire about Rafte & Company’s Legal Transition Practice, please call toll-free at (800) 396-9390 or contact Rafte & Company through their website at www.rafte.com/contact.

Rafte & Company to Examine Lessons from Hurricane Ike at Legal Technology Roundtable

noemail@rafte.com — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON, October 14, 2008 – The legal technology experts who keep Houston law firms and corporate legal departments operating smoothly will come together this week to discuss what they learned from Hurricane Ike and its aftermath. Rafte & Company, a leading provider of strategic technology solutions for law firms, corporate legal departments and professional services firms, is sponsoring, Lessons Learned: Preparing for and Recovering from a Hurricane, on Thursday, October 16th. Many law firms and legal departments saw their operations disrupted to varying degrees by Hurricane Ike. The storm caused wind and water damage to office buildings downtown and elsewhere, as well as lengthy power outages. The lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 led many law firms and corporate legal departments to develop business continuity plans that were invaluable during Hurricane Ike, said Dena Rafte, president and chief executive officer of Rafte & Company. Ike presented its own unique...