COBALT, Estonia

COBALT, Estonia
Kristjan Velbri, Chief Operating Officer

In use: CSI Lawyer 2015-
Favourites: Versatile functionality, integrations, user support

To the naked eye CSI looks like a fancy time sheet with a few pivot tables thrown in for the managers. That is until you are put in charge of managing it. You quickly find out it is a tool to keep track of billable and non-billable work, restrict access on a need to know basis, build custom reports to different stakeholders from managers to marketing, invoice customers, keep track of budgets etc.

Combining customized reports with Excel’s Power Query and XLOOKUP functions takes CSI to another level. Our automated reports based on CSI tables save us more than 40 hours of tedious report building every month.

The quality of support from CSI is excellent. They have the rare skill of putting themselves in your shoes and thinking like a business representative. If you have demanding data consumers and need more than just the basic reports that come by default, CSI will help you build customized reports that include a whole range of new fields and dropdown lists which you can add to customer and matter specific views.

Integrations with external software, such as accounting and document management systems, mean a faster response time and fewer errors. Among recent developments the speed at which data can be accessed has improved, which is crucial when handling tens of thousands of rows data.

COBALT is a closely integrated alliance of top-tier law offices across the Baltics, making it one of the largest law firms in the Baltic market.  In Estonia, the company’s history dates back to 1990.  COBALT is consistently ranked in the top tier by the most prestigious legal directories: Chambers Europe, Legal500 and IFLR 1000.