UK Prime 100 regulation agency Shakespeare Martineau has deployed SaaS authorized pricing platform Virtual Pricing Director (VPD), we are able to reveal, integrating it with their Aderant Expert apply administration system.
VPD, which was conceived of and constructed over 4 years by UK value consultancy Burcher Jennings and authorized pricing specialists Validatum, integrates with any of the main apply administration methods together with Elite 3E, Aderant and Fulcrum/SAP. Shakespeare Martineau has been working with Validatum since 2015 and was attracted by the mixed skilled growth plus expertise providing.
Alex Smith, a companion, and managing director of Shakespeare Martineau’s infrastructure & specialist markets enterprise unit mentioned: “VPD is a really spectacular answer to a business-critical problem with which all of us within the career have been grappling for years. On our evaluation, we concluded it was the very best answer in the marketplace.
“Other than bringing elevated business rigour to our operations, VPD will give us the flexibility to higher handle the wants and expectations of our purchasers, significantly round value transparency, budgetary certainty, and higher value communication all through the lifetime of a matter.”
He added: “Vital for us was the truth that Validatum are the main authorized pricing consultants internationally, with whom we’ve got been working since 2015. We needed the entire bundle {of professional} growth alongside best-in-class expertise. Tech by itself is of restricted worth, which frequently ends in low person adoption and a poor return on funding. In distinction, all our legal professionals have been champing on the bit to get their palms on VPD.”
That is the newest in a sequence of huge wins for VPD. In April, we revealed that UK Prime 100 regulation agency Hugh James has deployed the pricing answer, having taken half in VPD’s pricing masterclasses.
Richard Burcher, chairman and co-founder of VPD mentioned: “Over the past 10 years, the significance of pricing sophistication has develop into more and more obvious to most regulation corporations, giant and small. What corporations all over the world have instructed us for a number of years is that they need a holistic answer comprising individuals, course of and expertise that appeals to each entrance line legal professionals and administration energy customers, however is sufficiently versatile, adaptable, and scalable up or down to fulfill the wants of a really numerous authorized market.
“As a former training lawyer of 30 years and a former managing companion I’ve been decided from the outset to provide legal professionals one thing that might make their lives simpler and assist them to be extra business of their method. A key characteristic of VPD is that it has been constructed by legal professionals for legal professionals.”
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