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Laurel, An Implementation That Doesn't Fatigue

Our journey at Laurel has been an eye-opening experience in learning about the challenges IT and Finance leadership faces to ensure a firm’s ability to operate is safeguarded; in particular the fatigue that comes from technology implementations that protract in timelines and drain resources before becoming a point of contention within a firm. 

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Our journey at Laurel has been an eye-opening experience in learning about the challenges IT and Finance leadership faces to ensure a firm’s ability to operate is safeguarded; in particular the fatigue that comes from technology implementations that protract in timelines and drain resources before becoming a point of contention within a firm. 

The risk in strategic business systems is considerable and something Laurel has been designed to reduce at every step. Our engineering is focused on modern system architectures, meeting your IT team where they are on their technological journey. You can break down our implementation methodology into three pivotal steps:

  • Access :Before anything else, we focus on secure entry points for our services through SSO and region-based data storage and access that is setup once and easy to maintain. 
  • Collection: Through our local and cloud Laurel Assistants, work data collection is made effortless and dependable. All of these are also managed in Laurel MyAdmin, a first-class product developed for IT teams to manage their implementations.
  • Finally, we ensure data flows align with your specific billing needs. This is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but a tailored approach that captures your unique business processes to minimize any post-time data processing.
The notes we send our partner implementation teams.

Eric Zaarour, our Head of Product Deployment, encapsulates our approach: "We dig deep to understand the systems we're integrating with. That's how we translate your firm's processes into a seamless Laurel experience, no matter how nuanced those processes may be."

Legal Systems Integration

For those operating in the legal space, we've successfully brought our solution into harmony with the following systems:

  • Thomson Reuters Elite Enterprise
  • Thomson Reuters 3E
  • Thomson Reuters ProLaw
  • Aderant
  • Juris
Accounting Systems Integration

For those in the accounting domain, our expertise extends to a host of industry-leading platforms.

  • Thomson Reuters Practice CS
  • IRIS Star
  • IRIS Practice Engine
  • CCH Practice Management (On-Prem)
  • CCH Axcess Practice (Cloud)
  • SAP
  • Workday

Billing data flow, of course, is one part of the opportunity — our automations extend beyond timekeeping and into helping transition hundreds to thousands of timekeepers to a modern platform that can work as either a better implementation of their existing services, or one that learns, streamlines, and crafts quality timesheets that gets paid.

An example implementation timeline for our E2E experience.

If you are an IT or Finance leader appropriately scrutinizing your firm’s next critical technology investments, bear this in mind: Laurel is engineered to deliver value, which means taking into account the ground realities of data integrations and the sensitivities of ensuring those are maintained while the product is adopted and used into a top-to-bottom strategic asset.

Ryan Alshak

Founder and CEO

Ryan was previously a litigator at Manatt Phelps, where he was ignominiously awarded the country’s worst timekeeper award. While Laurel’s current vision is to automate timekeeping for all professional services, ultimately, Ryan is on a mission to make the world aware of its time.

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You’re halfway through your week. Have you done the important things yet?
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The weekend is fast approaching! What are you proud of this week?
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It’s Friday! Close your laptop to soak up your surroundings— or keep it open to continue a project you’re passionate about.
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Deep breaths. Deep thinking. Deep conversations. (Or, you know, keep things light!)
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Close your eyes and think about the week ahead. How will you value your time?
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