Yevhen Saveliev, managing partner of the Avitar law firm, told us how his team works with Worksection, the value of the service for lawyers and the advantages of time tracking.
Tell us about your company and your clients
Avitar is an international law firm for online businesses. Our specialization is supporting IT companies that are developing and expanding into the markets of the EU, USA, and Great Britain. We help with Corporate & Tax, Data Protection & Marketing compliance, and we also support investment deals.
The company was founded in 2018, when Myroslav, my partner, left his in-house role for good.
Screenshot from the Avitar website
In 2022, our team grew a lot, but then we started making mistakes, someone burned out, and people started quitting. Most likely, this happened because we were inexperienced entrepreneurs who made many mistakes within the organization. As a result, our company went through a difficult period.
How did you come to Worksection?
I’d grown a little tired of keeping our financial records in Excel, I wanted some beauty, aesthetics and more human way of entering and viewing information. As a result, we chose Worksection because it makes the most sense for a business like ours. 1C is complex, and Excel often can’t give you the kind of infographic you need. In addition, we wanted to support Ukrainian business.
Which of the service tools help you in your work?
It’s great that Worksection allows you to track time. It is cool to be able to track billable hours. When you’re growing, you don’t count every penny or keep tabs on who works how much. But later, as wages rise and the team gets bigger, you run into a cash gap. That’s when you start worrying about who’s working on what — and whether people are working on projects that aren’t profitable for us.
Time tracker in Worksection
If you roll out something like tracking time and money, then be prepared for the team to push back. That was, in fact, one of the reasons why we stumbled: we brought it in too late. But it gives you excellent feedback on how efficient your business is.
We also actively use the Gantt chart. It is an essential tool for long-term projects that have 20, 50, or more tasks.
“With Worksection it’s clear who, when, where, and how much..…”
We are one of the best in the market when it comes to protecting personal data. Here we made a compromise: we still store information in our databases, and use Worksection as a hub, because this system is for other tasks. We do not use it for large storage, as there is still email and a large number of email-associated documents.
Worksection, as a tool, solves another problem: with it, it is clear who, when, where and how much. For us, it’s about money, responsible people, time and making everything clear.
I tell everyone right away that we work in Worksection. I honestly can’t imagine using anything else.
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