Case Study: Allen Matkins achieves $980,000 in annual productivity gains and rapid global collaboration with Riverbed Steelhead Appliances

Riverbed® Steelhead® Appliances Enable Global Collaboration for Law Firm

Allen Matkins is a California-based law firm with more than 200 lawyers across five major offices providing national and international legal services. As the firm shifted to inter-office client teams, network latency and distributed data made collaboration slow and inefficient—litigation files (upwards of 60 MB) could take more than 20 minutes to download or upload, remote offices relied on nightly data replication, and attorneys lost billable time tracking down and transferring up-to-date documents.

Allen Matkins deployed Riverbed Steelhead appliances in six offices to accelerate WAN performance and centralize data access. Downloads dropped from about 22 minutes to 2.5 minutes (edits transfer in ~8 seconds), eliminating roughly 20 non-billable hours per remote attorney and generating an estimated $980,000 in annual productivity gains; the firm also avoided about $130,000 in annual bandwidth costs and reduced two-year WAN upgrade costs by roughly 70% compared with a bandwidth-only approach.

Allen Matkins

Frank Gillman

Director of Technology