At the core of the legal system is a data warehouse that holds and maintains the information for all the functional areas of the law firm. The law firm functions by providing legal services to

clients from tax to litigation. Billable hours is what is tracked by the attorneys and staff for the services provided.

Every company of any size uses an ERP type of system. It might be a large accounting system or it may extend crossing other functional areas as seen in the Legal diagram provided here.

What type of ERP system does your company use?

Who is the vendor or was the system developed in$-$house?

Where is the data stored and how is it accessed?

Were there any implementation issues when the system was first activated?

$($If you were not there at the time, ask someone who was working the installation$)$

How well is the system working? What benefits are being provided? How does the staff, working with the system, like it$?$