Flare makes legal services more accessible and affordable with Salesforce

Flare makes legal services more accessible and affordable with Salesforce

Find out how centralising operations on one platform is modernising the client-attorney relationship.

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During life’s biggest moments, the last thing you need is more complexity. But while the law is there to protect you, finding the right attorney at the right time and the right price can be challenging. That’s where Flare comes in.

Flare is the tech start-up reimagining how attorneys and clients work together, making legal support more accessible and affordable at critical times in people’s lives. It connects clients looking for legal advice to an attorney with the right expertise – from civil matters like family law or employment disputes, to criminal cases – and offers flexible payment options so no one has to go without support.

“Salesforce helps us join the dots to offer clients a more seamless experience from enquiry to closing,” explained Mor Baranes Schwartz, Head of Business Applications at Flare. “It gives us the transparency we need to communicate clearly at every step and keep things running smoothly.”

 
 
Mor Baranes Schwartz, Head of Business Applications, Flare
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1. Keeping users front of mind

When Flare kicked off its digital transformation to streamline growth and centralise on one platform, it needed to move rapidly. Luckily, Baranes Schwartz has six years of Salesforce expertise and knew that with the right implementation, it was the best solution for the job.

Keeping the user experience front of mind, the team migrated to Sales Cloud and integrated the systems supporting payments, loans, and legal case delivery using APIs to create a single source of truth.

“Attorneys need accurate data from the moment they take on a case, but the customer journey starts before that. Salesforce gives us well-defined processes that we can continuously optimise and the scalability to grow our business.”

Staff can request changes using Slack, which is integrated with Service Cloud to handle cases, manage approvals, and provide visibility from one platform. As the implementation matures, the IT team are seeing fewer requests as users settle into new ways of working.

“Our goal for the first four months was to get people to love working in Salesforce and to give them confidence that our transformation was designed around them. A year in, that’s paid off and staff are happy with the system,” added Baranes Schwartz.

For much of the team, the day begins in Salesforce. Dashboards provide at-a-glance visibility of the sales pipeline and a personalised to-do list.

2. Streamlining the sales pipeline

The sales team is responsible for converting interested attorneys into happy customers. Leads are captured and managed in Sales Cloud, and to make sure no opportunity is missed, calls that come in outside of office hours automatically trigger an action for a sales development rep to call back the next working day.

Reps personalise communications with the prospect’s name, and Salesforce insights help them to work smarter – for example by suggesting the optimum number of times to reach out to someone to balance keeping them engaged with overwhelming them.

Einstein Lead Scoring helps the team to prioritise where to focus, and prospects can schedule their own meetings using Calendly, which is integrated with Salesforce.

When an attorney signs up to Flare, their preferences are tracked in Salesforce to ensure they’re only offered relevant cases that match their area of expertise and availability.

If an attorney needs support at any point in their journey, they can reach out the customer experience team by phone, email, or webform. Service Cloud captures these cases and routes them to the most relevant person depending on whether the case is from an existing client or prospect and filtered by topic.

The support team handles 1,000 cases per week, and Flare is currently implementing KPIs to ensure clients receive consistent, high-quality support.

“The customer experience team checks client scores on a daily basis so they can reach out to anyone with a low score. In the next quarter we’re going to look at other factors that impact their experience to make sure we’re always meeting their expectations and improving our service,” said Baranes Schwartz.

 
 

3. A culture of continuous improvement

Being agile is crucial for a young start-up, and Salesforce gives Flare the flexibility to adapt to changes as they arise. For example, Salesforce insights revealed that there were more outbound that inbound leads, so the company restructured its sales team to adopt a hybrid model instead of dividing its team by the type of lead.

Other projects in the pipeline include rolling out Salesforce Sales Engagement to help sales development reps be more responsive and to manage their workload better, and by the end of the year the company is expecting to have achieved 360-degree visibility with all sales processes, payments, tickets, communications, and legal case updated tracked in Salesforce.

“Attorneys don’t work directly in Salesforce yet, but we use it to manage processes once a legal case is closed and for reporting. In the future we’re looking at how we can leverage the platform to further enhance their experience,” revealed Baranes Schwartz. “I love Salesforce, having one platform for everything is exactly what we need make legal support more efficient and accessible.”

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