Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms in the United States. The firm’s Premium Services group, within Knowledge & Innovation, partners with clients to deliver dedicated legal operations support, matter management, and program-level insight tailored to the needs of large, complex portfolios.
The Business Problem
Premium Services sought a solution to serve as the foundation to support their offerings across the firm, as well as in the immediate term, serve as a case management application and alleviate constraints imposed by their current application platforms. This solution would also need to be scalable for additional offerings that Premium Services will support over time, as well as offer granular user control for individual access to offerings.
The Solution
Origin Digital built and deployed Insight Hub, a new case management application developed by Ogletree Deakins' Knowledge & Innovation Premium Services team. It provides a centralized interface for importing, searching, and managing large volumes of matters, with data synchronized to the tracking infrastructure the team currently uses. Insight Hub gives Premium Services clients and team members a shared, centralized view of active matters. From the Hub, you can search and view matters by case number, client name, status, and other key fields, and export a full matter view as a PDF whenever you need it.
The application runs entirely on Azure: Container Apps, Azure SQL Database, Azure Managed Redis, Entra ID for authentication, and Application Insights for observability. All infrastructure is aligned with governance and security requirements enforced by Ogletree Deakins.
How Claude Code compressed the timeline
Ogletree Deakins had a fixed deadline. Origin Digital used Claude Code throughout delivery to hit the accelerated timeline that we needed to meet for the project.
Origin's architects, engineers, and QA specialists spent their time on the problems that genuinely required their attention, while Claude Code absorbed the implementation volume underneath. Origin engineers leveraged existing in-house Skills and agent prompting to formalize spec creation, implementation plan execution tracking, and testing. The team also utilized Rules to ensure code was written with a consistent pattern to match the team’s preferences, and generate clean, maintainable code. These purpose-built methods for driving Claude Code to maximize effectiveness were also adapted to Ogletree's needs, leading not only to a successful implementation of this solution, but a reference implementation for how Claude Code can help, in a structured way, streamline future development efforts.
Results
- Large-scale operations which previously took the team 8+ minutes to complete have been reduced to a few seconds, resulting in a 98% decrease in time.
- Origin Digital delivered the project in 8 weeks, shipping to production and meeting Ogletree Deakins' infrastructure, architecture, and security requirements for production applications in early August, 2026. The team did this while maintaining a very high level of quality code coverage to ensure we minimize the risk of any breaking changes.
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