Executive Summary: By Engaging Ciracom Cloud for Microsoft Technologies Management, Hirsch & Ehlenberger Improved Their Firm’s Workplace and Client Relation

About Hirsch & Ehlenberger

Based in Reston, Virginia, Hirsch & Ehlenberger is a preeminent domestic relations law firm specializing in family law. The scope of its expertise includes divorce settlements, equitable distribution, custody agreements, child and spousal support, protective orders, visitation, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. When family issues and legal matters may overwhelm clients, Hirsch & Ehlenberger aims primarily to set everyone’s minds at ease with personalized attention and a constant commitment to legal excellence.

Solutions

To best support Hirsch & Ehlenberger, Ciracom Cloud:

• Deployed several effective cloud solutions to critically support Hirsch & Ehlenberger’s infrastructure, including Microsoft 365 Business Basic and Standard, Azure Active Directory, ShareFile, and more
• Improved secure scanning and data-storing capabilities, as well as the state of their device management
• Readied the law firm with a reliable virtual courtroom setup on their premises

Cloud Migration and Microsoft Solutions

After departing from their previous IT firm, Hirsch & Ehlenberger knew they lacked the size and internal resources to transform its infrastructure alone. Partner Brian Hirsch is a venture capitalist and lawyer specializing in familial mediation, and he wanted to save on IT costs, streamline the office’s day-to-day operations, and consolidate within one cohesive Microsoft cloud ecosystem.

In this vein, Ciracom Cloud deployed Microsoft 365 Business Basic and Standard, ShareFile, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft OneDrive, and much more. Hirsch & Ehlenberger gained the abilities to scan and store all of its legal documentations even more securely, be it regarding office processes, client folders, paperwork for paralegals, or bank statements. These can be accessed in person or remotely. Ciracom Cloud also enabled a pay portal within Hirsch & Ehlenberger’s systems and coordinated with its bank to maximize their e-billing capabilities.

Secure Document-Scanning and Data-Storing

In addition to the setup of printers, scanners, and copiers for Hirsch & Ehlenberger, Ciracom Cloud still assists the law firm with all of their new device setup and management processes, including backing up all of their crucial data). Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Hirsch & Ehlenberger’s office has enjoyed retaining the options of in-person work, remote work, or both at times. The enablement of this hybridity has allowed the firm’s employees to remain extremely efficient and simultaneously flexible.

Virtual Courtroom Setup

Ciracom Cloud also helped Hirsch & Ehlenberger convert one of its conference rooms into a multi-purpose, virtual courtroom. A wide-screen television was hooked up and installed, as well as a soundbar, a high-quality table microphone, and the necessary measures to ensure the setting remained as secure as possible. Especially in light of the pandemic, virtual court sessions became a stress test for the firm.

“Ciracom Cloud certainly delivered,” Brian Hirsch said. “With their help, you could look at our billable hours around the height of COVID-19 and not realize there was, in fact, a pandemic at all. It has been that seamless, and we’re quite appreciative.”