Case Study: Ropes & Gray streamlines and automates budgeting and planning, cutting an FTE-month process to weeks, with CCH Tagetik

Ropes & Gray can now build their revenue models with confidence and accuracy with CCH Tagetik's flexible solution

Ropes & Gray, a global law firm with 11 offices and more than 1,200 lawyers and professionals, faced a cumbersome budgeting and planning process built on legacy tools. Using Clarity and heavy Excel modeling, the firm lacked flexible reporting and drill-through capabilities, and revenue and cost-of-service planning required a full FTE’s worth of manual work each year.

By implementing CCH Tagetik, Ropes & Gray moved to a flexible, per-lawyer planning model that applies demand and activity assumptions across attorney populations. The solution eliminated Excel-based models, automated the revenue process, and cut planning time from roughly an FTE-month to weeks in the first cycle, delivering more accurate outputs and greater confidence in results.

Ropes & Gray

Ben Snietka

Senior Financial Analyst