Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

BackgroundFull service Indian law firm, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, is highly rated by international law directories and professional journals and won 'National Law Firm of the Year, 2017, India’, Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co is renowned in the business community for its ability to enable business through use of innovative solutions, responsiveness and collaboration with clients.

The firm has 520 lawyers, including more than 100 Partners, offering legal services through offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai. They provide pragmatic advice to domestic and multinational clients.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Co is the law firm of choice for significant transactions and complex litigation in India. Investing in the latest technology is part of the firm’s DNA, ensuring they are equipped with the best tools to provide the desired outcomes for clients.

SituationProtecting client data is paramount for Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. The firm has a focused approach to being at the forefront of the evolving data security landscape.

Shams Khan, Head of IT Infrastructure & Information Security, wanted to partner with a leading technology company that had extensive capability to meet their immediate data security needs. They also wanted a long-term legal tech provider for file security.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co had to adhere to the new GDPR legislation and continue to satisfy their multinational clients’ data governance requirements.

The firm has iManage as their document management solution for file access and management already implemented. A sophisticated technology solution that removed personally identifiable information (PII) contained in document metadata was needed to further bolster the existing security processes in place for distribution of matter files outside the firm.

SolutionShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co reviewed the market and selected Workshare as their legal tech provider with the Workshare Secure solution. It has the functionality to ensure documents leaving the firm via corporate email do not contain sensitive personal identifiable information or metadata.

Workshare also had the most comprehensive roadmap with its integration, analytics and reporting engine that extends the security capabilities of the firm. With this functionality Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has confidence their future needs in preventing data leaks, complying with changing legislation and tracking anomalies are catered for.

The firm also made the selection based on Workshare’s mature support and distribution channels in the Asia Pacific region, with a well established support process able to respond within their business day, and the ability to deploy the solution quickly with minimal disruption. Workshare Secure’s, data loss prevention technology, was implemented quickly to ensure measures were in place prior to introduction of the GDPR. The technology now plays a pivotal role in the firm’s compliance with this and all the legislation they and their multinational clients abide by.

Top Indian law firm leads the way by strengthening data security controls for all clients, including those subject to GDPR, using Workshare Secure. Speed of delivery

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This initiative was vitally important for our firm’s GDPR compliance requirements, so we selected Workshare as the leading technology solution provider in this field. The Workshare Secure technology was the best and fastest solution for data

protection and data privacy ensured. We were also very impressed with Workshare’s capability to execute and support our planswithin such tight timeframes, which was the need of the hour!

Shams Khan, Head of IT Infrastructure & Information of Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

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Ryan Reyes, Asia Pacific Partner Manager of Workshare, concluded “We are delighted to work with such a prestigious firm. Data security is paramount to them and their clients, and we’re very proud to be the firm’s technology partner of choice.”