Case Study: Howell Jones Solicitors achieves increased billable time and profitability with Microsoft Power BI

PowerBI for the Legal sector maximising billable time and business advantage with data insights and dashboards

Howell Jones Solicitors, a medium-sized UK law firm, struggled to turn large volumes of internally produced data into timely, visual insights for management, billing and marketing. To solve slow, manual reporting and fragmented visibility across systems they adopted Microsoft Power BI (with implementation support from AspiraCloud) to link case management, HR, SQL/Azure and bespoke apps and make dashboards accessible to non‑IT staff.

Microsoft Power BI was implemented to provide real‑time, drill‑down dashboards for partners, team leaders and marketing, enabling smarter caseload allocation, campaign tracking and compliance monitoring. Using Power BI the firm quickly capped low‑value work, redistributed files to boost billable hours, and saw immediate increases in turnover per lawyer and overall profitability, while reducing manual reporting and improving GDPR/AML visibility.

Howell Jones Solicitors

Chris Cato

Operations Director