Farrer & Co renews its contract with Intelligent Office for a third time

Farrer & Co outsourced to IO in 2007. Since then IO has improved the quality, professionalism and depth of services provided to the firm’s partners, fee earners and support functions.

The IO team have supported several major initiatives during the last contract term at Farrer & Co including project management of a large-scale refurbishment programme of the firm’s Grade 2 listed building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The IO team also led a number of significant records management projects including a full review of all storage in the vaults.

During the last contract term, Farrer & Co grew its revenue by over 17%. Whilst delivering an expanded range of services to the firm, IO has reduced the cost of service per fee earner by 8% during the same period.

Simon Pring, Partner and Management Board Member at Farrer & Co said,

“At Farrers, we want to provide the best possible service to our clients and that does not stop at the legal services we provide. It includes every aspect of dealing with a client – from the quality of our printed material to the welcome they receive when they walk through the door. For us, the partnership with Intelligent Office is a valuable one and we hope it’s one we can rely on for many years to come.”

Rachel McCorry, CEO at Intelligent Office made the following comments,

“We are absolutely delighted that Farrer & Co, a firm with such a unique reputation and recognised brand in the legal sector, have elected to continue to entrust IO to deliver its back office functions. This further reinforces IO’s reputation in the market place as the only BPO provider to truly focus on the legal sector and understand its specific needs. We look forward to working with Farrer & Co over the next contract term and helping them with their continued success.”

In addition to the Farrer & Co renewal, IO won three new clients in the final months of 2017 delivering onsite document management services to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA’s) 600 employees and also at major US firm Shearman & Sterling’s London office. They are also currently implementing a new solution at a UK Top 100 firm’s three offices.

These firms join an increasing number of UK top 100 law firms, which have outsourced to IOUK. Other clients include Gowling WLG, Penningtons Manches, Wedlake Bell, Capsticks, DAC Beachcroft and Boodle Hatfield.