With WASI, you can upload, manage and control your firm’s documents without needing to obtain a separate document management system (“DMS”). All of your firm’s documents can be embedded in the system and categorised depending on any case or matter type. In addition, with cloud integration, users and clients can view and download documents at any time and no matter where they are. The number of benefits derived from DMS are:

• Eliminate the need to acquire stand-alone and expensive document management systems.
• Reduce the risk of lost data through server failures or potential disasters.
• Upload documents of any size in Word, PDF, JPEG or Excel
• Find and retrieve any document you need using the intuitive search bar.
• Reduce archiving costs as users no longer need to maintain paper trails of matters and cases which are closed.
• Users can share their agreements, legal opinions and case memos with their colleagues. Alternatively, users can set permissions to view or edit documents depending on their position in the firm
• Users can create multiple document categories to define the folders where they wish the documents to be stored.
• Flexibility of having to choose between hosting the system at your local servers or on the cloud.
• Allows the capturing, nurturing and sharing collective know-how and expertise of a team of lawyers.

When documents are centralized on a single platform, the tendency to avoid duplication of work decreases thereby reducing the time required to complete tasks. Another value added benefit of the DMS feature is that firms can build an institutional memory that survives even after lawyers leave their place of work. Hence, all know-how and expertise is maintained and updated through a system so that future lawyers and paralegals can learn and adapt from the knowledge that was previously left behind by former teammates.