Case Study: Farella Braun + Martel achieves seamless, secure hybrid work and faster client service with iManage

Farella Braun + Martel makes the employee and client experience seamless with iManage

Farella Braun + Martel, a 250‑person San Francisco law firm with a 60‑year history, needed a more secure, available, and efficient way to manage documents for its hybrid workforce. Running iManage on premises created manual overhead for IT, slowed collaboration with co‑counsel and clients, and risked outages — so the firm sought a cloud solution to improve access control, system availability, and day‑to‑day productivity.

Working with Stone Consulting, the firm migrated about 20 million documents to iManage Work 10 in the Cloud and deployed iManage Share, Records Manager, Threat Manager, and Conflicts Manager to create a cloud‑native knowledge work platform. The rollout delivered faster searches, simpler email filing and client sharing, improved security and compliance monitoring, quicker client onboarding, and full staff adoption of the latest interface — outcomes that boost productivity and position the firm to leverage AI tools like Ask iManage and Microsoft Copilot as a future differentiator.

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Jordon Flato

Director of Technology