Smoothstone Streamlines Communications for Eminent National Law Firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLP, a national labor and employment law firm specializes in counseling employers on a wide variety of workplace situations. With over 250 employees in 19 offices across the country, its own workplace needed assistance when it came to its communications platform.
The firm’s IT team spent a tremendous amount of time managing their many different technologies for telephone and wide area network connectivity. It was clear that the mix of systems through multiple carriers had become complex, difficult and expensive. In examining solutions to each of their systems it became clear that there would be many benefits to replacing their existing infrastructure with a comprehensive solution. The IT department issued a request for proposal to several companies and completed a comprehensive cost benefit analysis of the proposed solutions. Constangy chose Smoothstone IP Communications to help them tackle this formidable task.
Smoothstone, a nationwide provider of unified IP communications services, worked with Constangy to consolidate all of their locations onto a single, MPLS-based platform for voice, data, internet, security and unified messaging. This gave their IT team the visibility and control they needed over their environment to make managing everyday communications simple and easy.
With newer, more reliable Cisco-based equipment and an efficient network infrastructure, Constangy could also now experience improved internal productivity through the benefits of managed unified communications.
“We chose Smoothstone for many reasons. During our analysis of the solutions, we had to decide if we wanted to invest in the resources to manage our telecommunications locally or outsource it to a provider,” said David Grow, the firm’s Director of Information Technology. “We chose to take advantage of Smoothstone’s expertise in the industry.”
“Another key factor in our decision was Smoothstone’s solution fit very well into our overall disaster recovery/business continuity plan,” continued Grow. “Smoothstone understood how much we rely on our communication systems to serve our clients, so as part of implementing their solution, they established comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans for all our locations.”
“Our team recognized the frustration Constangy was feeling, because we’ve helped so many other companies struggling with similar complexity challenges,” said Jeff Wellemeyer, President and CTO of Smoothstone. “We were happy to help them, and found it very rewarding to be able to deliver exactly the right managed solution to simplify and streamline their communications. We know it will allow them to be more productive than ever before.”
About Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP:
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP has counseled employers on labor and employment law matters, exclusively, since 1946. A “Go To” Law Firm in Corporate Counsel and Fortune Magazine, it represents Fortune 500 corporations and small companies across the country. Its attorneys are consistently rated as top lawyers in their practice areas by publications such as Chambers USA, Super Lawyers, and Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States. More than 100 lawyers partner with clients to provide cost-effective legal services and sound preventive advice to enhance the employer-employee relationship. Offices are located in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Texas and California. For more information, visit www.constangy.com.
About Smoothstone IP Communications:
Smoothstone IP Communications is a nationwide provider of unified IP communications services to mid-sized enterprises. Smoothstone delivers Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IP trunking, unified threat management, MPLS networking, contact center solutions, messaging and advanced collaboration tools as a unified suite of managed services and cloud based applications. Smoothstone’s scalable, on-demand applications & services can be integrated with a customer’s existing network and telecommunications infrastructure, operational processes and employee activities, enabling a customer to migrate to unified IP communications as their business requirements dictate. For more information, visit www.smoothstone.com or call (800) 773.3037.
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