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Studio Legal Manages Their Global IP Portfolio with Alt Legal

Sara Giampa Kease | Practice Manager | Studio Legal

Studio Legal is a leading Australian boutique law firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, serving creative people and businesses. The firm works with a variety of business types, including micro-creatives, start-ups, established SMEs, and global brands in a range of creative industries.

Sara Giampa Kease

Practice Manager | Studio Legal

Studio Legal is a leading Australian boutique law firm with offices in Melbourne and Sydney, serving creative people and businesses. The firm works with a variety of business types, including micro-creatives, start-ups, established SMEs, and global brands in a range of creative industries.

Sara Giampa Kease is the Practice Manager at Studio Legal, and she’s tasked with ensuring that all of the firm’s systems and processes are operating at maximum efficiency. She is also responsible for all of Studio Legal’s trademark administration. Studio Legal uses Alt Legal IP Docketing Software to manage their very busy docket, which contains over 1,200 trademarks from around the globe and a small USPTO portfolio.

Studio Legal Went from Managing Their Portfolio in a Spreadsheet to an Automated IP Docketing System

Prior to subscribing to Alt Legal, Sara managed all of Studio Legal’s trademarks in a spreadsheet. “It was getting too cumbersome to handle. Spreadsheets shared in a cloud-based scenario like we did can become unreliable. There is too much room for human error.”

Recognizing that Studio Legal needed a better solution to manage the firm’s growing IP docket, Sara discovered Alt Legal. She saw that our software provided the reliability and automation that she needed in order to keep track of all the matters in their busy docket while allowing the firm to scale and take on more clients and matters with ease.

Sara was pleased with how easy the transition was to Alt Legal. Learning how to use Alt Legal could not have been simpler: “Alt Legal is very intuitive. The team and I did some training in the beginning, but we haven’t needed any assistance since we started using the software.”

At Alt Legal, we focus on creating IP docketing software that’s intuitive, modern, and user-friendly. Nevertheless, the Alt Legal Support Team is always available to answer questions via email, phone, or live chat. Additionally, Alt Legal offers unlimited, free support and training to you and your team at any time during your subscription. Training is personalized to you and covers beginning and advanced topics, all so that you can make the most of your Alt Legal subscription.

Studio Legal Appreciates Alt Legal’s Automated Features

Very quickly after Sara began using Alt Legal to manage Studio Legal’s docket, she noticed what a significant impact Alt Legal’s automated features were making on her day-to-day portfolio management.

One of the standout features for Sara is Alt Legal’s integration with global IP offices. “The links to the global IP offices are game-changing! We find that once the docket is linked and updated automatically, we do not miss communications.”

Additionally, Sara very much appreciates Alt Legal’s daily update emails, which provide her and the team a quick snapshot of all upcoming deadlines and any recent updates to their matters. As Sara notes, “Alt Legal’s daily email notifications have improved our workflow.”

Another feature that Sara and the team have been taking advantage of is Alt Legal’s custom email templates. With the help of Alt Legal’s Support Team, she was able to set up email templates with custom, pre-populated language that she can use to email clients, foreign counsel, and other contacts at various points in the trademark prosecution process. Alt Legal will recommend a relevant template, auto-populate matter-specific details, and create a draft email in your email program, which you can further personalize before sending. Sara remarks, “We use the custom email templates all the time!”

Studio Legal Has Been Impressed with Alt Legal’s Support and Other Offerings

Going from managing a large global IP portfolio in a spreadsheet to a highly-automated IP docketing software program could be a daunting task for any organization. But for Studio Legal, knowing that Alt Legal’s software is backed by an outstanding Support Team made the process much less intimidating. She also appreciates that the Support Team is always listening to customer feedback and working to improve the software functionality based upon customer suggestions. Sara raves, “Alt Legal has been great at taking suggestions and feedback.”

Another great feature that Sara recently learned about is that Alt Legal integrates with Clio. Alt Legal integrates seamlessly with Clio to help you stay organized, work more efficiently, and reduce double data-entry. Alt Legal syncs your docket to your Clio calendar and imports matter numbers and contacts from Clio to your Alt Legal docket. Sara sees great potential in this system integration and is eager to set it up.

Additionally, Sara and her team love Alt Legal’s free resources including the weekly I Trademarks Newsletter, which covers important IP and trademark news and updates, and the Alt Legal Blog, which features frequently-updated articles written by the Alt Legal Team and experts in the field. Alt Legal is dedicated to making trademark professionals’ lives easier. We do that with our automated IP docketing software, trademark monitoring and watch tools, and IP paralegal service, but we also want to do more. We’re thrilled to be part of the global trademark community, and we give back by providing free, high-quality resources and building community. 

Alt Legal is Proud to Support Studio Legal’s Global IP Practice

At Alt Legal, we couldn’t be happier to hear Sara and the Studio Legal team’s positive comments about switching from managing their large, global IP portfolio in a spreadsheet to Alt Legal’s highly-automated docketing system. We aim to provide user-friendly but highly sophisticated IP docketing software that can handle anything from a small, US-based IP portfolio to the largest global IP portfolios. Additionally, we work to ensure that any transition, whether it is from a spreadsheet, or from another IP docketing software platform, is streamlined. In no time, users feel comfortable managing their dockets and taking advantage of all of Alt Legal’s features. 

Sara and team are in agreement, “We highly recommend Alt Legal IP Docketing Software to help stay on top of everything!”

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