{"id":16591,"date":"2015-04-24T22:57:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T22:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/?p=16591"},"modified":"2015-04-24T22:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T22:57:33","slug":"matter-centre-for-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalgeek.co\/matter-centre-for-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter Centre for Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft have a product \/ solution developed for\u00a0the Legal Industry and they have called this the ‘Matter Centre’ which is an evolution\u00a0of Office 365 – their business service; unlike the other cloud services for Lawyers e.g. Drop Box<\/a> and Box<\/a>\u00a0Matter Centre is a solution designed and considered for the industry, not just shoe-horned file sharing with case-studies.<\/p>\n

How good is Office 365; Matter Centre for lawyers, barristers and Attorneys?<\/h1>\n

Well Microsoft have a big share of the market with their email client – Outlook and many solicitors use it; Matter allows Lawyers to quickly tag attachments to cases in Matter. The applications can be added to allow Lawyers to search within word for other cases and files saved in the secure cloud. The system also allows for Lync conversations to be produced in the same way you can use services such as live chat.<\/p>\n

Using word and office online allow for articles to be written and edited by multiple people on and offline, which makes the system very powerful and Lawyers can share documents securely using the shared drive. Matter essentially allows you to work without being in the office; but it does assume your colleagues and clients are embracing the same software; we are not sure how well it interacts with other systems clients may have.<\/p>\n