DLA Piper: Legal Calendar Software Case Study Challenges In 2005, three law firms undertook an unprecedented trans-Atlantic merger to create DLA Piper. The juncture of Dibb Lupton Alsop, Piper Rudnick, and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich created a global legal services practice with 3,500 lawyers and 3,400 support staff, who operated in 67 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. The size and scope of the merger created management challenges, including the need to unify docketing processes across all U.S. offices. Pre-merger, the two U.S. firms used different procedures and software. Gray Cary used CompuLaw. Piper Rudnick used a hybrid of MA3000 from ALM (the publisher of Law Technology News), DM2000 from the Law Bulletin Publishing Co., and Microsoft Access.

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