Mills & Reeve is an award-winning UK firm with over 1,200 people including over 550 lawyers working from six offices nationally. Their work spans a broad range of legal sectors and jurisdictions for a diverse range of clients: from multinational listed companies and fast-growth start-ups to entrepreneurs and some of the world’s most established and prestigious organisations.
Their Knowledge Management team was looking for a solution that would improve Partner awareness of the legal technology solutions and tools they had available to help them and their clients.
The team wanted to make this information available at the touch of a button and to prevent any blockers for their lawyer group in obtaining the information needed.
Mills & Reeve had several challenges:
The firm needed to find a way to communicate their legal technology offering to staff in a way that was:
An app was the obvious solution to them to enable instant access to the information for all staff, whenever and wherever they needed it.
After mapping out the app functionality in a spider diagram on paper, the team created prototypes for the apps screens utilizing Fliplet to develop, test and deliver the ‘What The Tech?!’ app in just two weeks. The initial launch was to Partners before rolling out to all staff.
The primary features of the app are:
The team developed an award-winning app, recognized with The Legal Innovation 2020 award for Knowledge Management Innovation.
The key benefits of the app for Mills & Reeve are:
Fliplet enables non-technical and technical people to produce mobile and web apps. Fliplet includes a broad selection of app templates that enable organizations to rapidly deliver apps for staff or customers and are distributed to public or enterprise app stores, and online.