Leading New Zealand law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts has chosen 3E®, the market-leading financial and practice management solution from Elite, as its cloud-based technology foundation for the future.

MinterEllisonRuddWatts is a top-tier New Zealand law firm known for its excellence, innovation, and commercially astute legal advice. The full-service law firm works with clients across a number of key sectors, including infrastructure, government, health, banking and financial services, managed funds, technology, and energy.

In selecting its new financial and practice management solution, MinterEllisonRuddWatts sought a platform that would enable significant efficiencies and enhanced reporting capabilities. By deploying 3E Data Insights with 3E, the firm will gain more powerful analytics and reporting than ever before with instant, graphic reports to facilitate faster decision-making.

In addition, a move to passive time recording—using the Always-on Time capability available in 3E—will enable MinterEllisonRuddWatts to capture billable activities more accurately and free up the firm’s lawyers to focus on providing an outstanding client experience and value-add activities.

More widely, the robust and open architecture of 3E—built on modern, secure APIs—will enable the firm to link many of its other technology applications to 3E, helping to create a more seamless experience for users across the business.

"Moving to 3E in the cloud is the right solution to meet our needs, both for today and into the future. It provides us with a powerful platform as we continue to grow,” said Andrew Poole, Chief Executive of MinterEllisonRuddWatts.

“The Elite team has outlined a robust roadmap for 3E, which is already the legal profession’s leading financial and practice management offering in the cloud. The team is clearly embracing an open architecture approach and the application of new technologies and innovation such as machine learning, both of which are really attractive to us.”