Case Study: Penningtons Manches Cooper achieves increased financial insight and optimised matter budgeting with BigHand

Penningtons Manches Cooper increases financial insight and optimises matter budgeting process with BigHand’s legal pricing and budgeting solution

Penningtons Manches Cooper, a leading UK and international law firm, needed better financial insight and a way to control matter budgets and limit overspend across litigation teams. To move beyond manual spreadsheets and deliver real‑time reporting and court‑approved Precedent H budgeting, the firm partnered with BigHand and adopted BigHand’s legal pricing and budgeting (matter pricing, planning and budgeting) solution.

BigHand implemented its matter pricing and budgeting tool to set initial budgets, model cost parameters, track actuals by phase, trigger notifications at agreed thresholds, and visualise spend across group sub‑matters. The result: Precedent H reporting was reduced from hours of spreadsheet work to a few clicks, paralegal reporting that previously took several hours is now faster and more accurate, and the firm has improved commercial awareness, risk management and client transparency — with rollout to further practice groups underway.

Penningtons Manches Cooper

Clare Arthurs

Associate Director