Ignition Law achieves rapid growth with Actionstep
Alex McPherson, co-founder of Ignition Law, says: “Actionstep makes our lives a lot easier by giving us absolute business certainty that an awful lot of the regulatory function – onboarding, client management, weekly reporting, WIP reports – is all absolutely bang-on accurate.”
London law firm, Ignition Law, does things differently. Ignition Law is a virtual law firm – rapidly growing, has an entrepreneurial spirit and is digitally driven. Like all law firms, the firm needs the right tools and systems to enable it to grow, and grow fast, as it’s experiencing 60% year-on-year growth.
Based in: London, United Kingdom
Employees: 35
Practice Areas: Corporate, commercial and employment law
Ignition Law works with entrepreneurs, startups and scale-ups providing specialist corporate, commercial and employment advice. It uses virtual ways of working to its advantage. Having lawyers distributed across multiple locations in co-working offices and startup hubs has become a USP because the firm itself is part of the entrepreneurial world it targets. By being in close proximity to its clients and other entrepreneurs, startups and scaling businesses, it understands its clients’ objectives and strives to deliver the best possible outcomes for growing firms. It knows that spiralling costs are a nightmare for clients, so providing the right legal solution in a timely and efficient way is fundamental to its success.
It’s vital that the Ignition team works smoothly and in close collaboration with its clients. Great communication and timely, accurate advice is hugely important for the fast-paced life of an entrepreneur to enable quick decision making.
Why the firm chose Actionstep
This award-winning, innovative law firm was only ever going to consider an equally innovative tech partner to support it on its growth path. It completed a comprehensive search for legal practice management software that would support future thinking and enable everyone to work together seamlessly. The firm also required it to be both Mac and PC compatible and to integrate with Xero from an accounting perspective.
“Getting everyone working together seamlessly is tricky, but it’s working thanks to Actionstep.”
Customisation of the system was also really key to Ignition’s business growth. It liked the ability to quickly and accurately engage clients and store their information – knowing it was rock solid from a regulatory perspective. Actionstep ticked all the boxes.
“We’ve customized the software in terms of reporting functionality and it’s engagement letters … it’s an extremely slick experience for clients now.”
Working with Actionstep
Historically it’s not been easy for lawyers to record time in a cloud-based fashion but Actionstep’s ability to do this with speed and simplicity has been hugely powerful for Ignition. It ensures it’s easy for the team to record time both by using the Actionstep app on phones and tablets around the world or on a desktop from any web browser.
It has also found that the Xero integration has proven to be invaluable at billing time – saving money, resources and stress.
“Actionstep makes our lives a lot easier by giving us absolute business certainty that an awful lot of the regulatory function – onboarding, client management, weekly reporting, WIP reports – is all absolutely bang-on accurate.”
After being frustrated with its previous system, Ignition Law now knows there’s “no comparison” to other legal practice software in the market. Actionstep meets all its needs making life easier every day.
We’re proud to be part of the success journey for such a contemporary and trailblazing global firm.
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