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Sonnenschein Improves Financial Analysis and Decision-Making

By Andrew Jurczyk
April 30, 2009

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP is a global firm with nearly 800 lawyers and other professionals in 14 offices in the U.S. and Europe. Like every law firm, the firm needs to charge rates that will enable it to maintain a worldwide client base as well as profitability. Yet, with clients' requirements and resources evolving every day, we needed to streamline and enhance the financial analysis processes to ensure that we have the right attorneys in the right offices and practice areas. We also needed to confirm that the annual budget supported the firm's business goals.

Having outgrown the labor-intensive ways of creating budgets and monitoring the firm's performance, we decided in early 2008 to update the financial planning and analysis processes with new technology solutions.

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