Design

Rafte & Company knows it is not realistic to have a blanket formula for solving the IT challenges of law firms. Every firm is unique. Our design phase enables our legal IT team to gain an intimate understanding of your firm, its culture and the role technology currently plays. The areas we address include:

• Goal Discovery – A law firm's strategy should drive its technology plan. Therefore, Rafte & Company identifies the appropriate technology infrastructure and applications that can help your law firm accomplish its goals and be more responsive than ever. We can re view your law firm's resource utilization, organizational structure and culture in order to accurately assess where your firm's technology is today and where it needs to be tomorrow. Through this process, we help law firms see into the future to anticipate client needs and define technology's role in supporting your strategy. We also identify and address emerging issues, such as remote access, to help firms create standards and documented procedures.
  
  
• Technology Assessment – Rafte & Company can evaluate your firm's existing legal IT infrastructure and workflow. This evaluation provides a snapshot of strengths and weaknesses as well as a gap analysis identifying where challenges exist. It also examines training needs and identifies how your law firm can utilize technology to deliver services better, faster and at higher profit margins. Rafte & Company also can evaluate your present internal technology support structures and provide guidance regarding how to strengthen internal support capabilities.
  
  
• Infrastructure Design Document – Rafte & Company can design a viable clearly defined legal IT strategy and implementation plan that will serve as an optimal platform for the future growth, evolution and profitability of your law firm. This customized roadmap will be designed specifically to meet your firm's unique needs. The Infrastructure Design Document will align your law firm's technology objectives with its goals as well as its culture. It can also provide a method for identifying, tracking and managing technology assets.
  
  
• Comprehensive Timeline – Rafte & Company can work closely with your firm's internal team to develop a step-by-step implementation plan in timeline format consisting of detailed descriptions of what is to be done, who is responsible, and the key dates for each task from commencement to completion.
  
  
• Training Roadmap – Rafte & Company can provide your law firm with an overview of training requirements to maximize the effectiveness of your technology tools. The best technology investment for many law firms has nothing to do with new hardware or software. Law firms need to invest in their people in order to realize greater profitability and eliminate information redundancy.