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Becoming the Strategic Heartbeat of Law Firms

The Problem With Legal Software

There’s no denying it: law firms are changing the way they do business. You have to be marketing, tech, and business savvy – on top of knowing the ins and outs of the law.

And for small to midsize firms, finding easy-to-use software that manages your practice while growing your business feels like finding a needle in a haystack.

Until Centerbase.

Centerbase’s birth was on an airplane napkin. Founder John Forbes needed an all-in-one platform to run his tech company. So he scribbled the idea of Centerbase down on his flight — a workflow, billing, accounting, and CRM system designed to run his midsize company.

While Centerbase was leaving the napkin and coming to fruition, John’s daughter was attending law school. He started exploring life in law firms for his daughter and realized “Most law firms still use server closets and spreadsheets to manage their practices. I wonder if they need something like Centerbase…”

Who Centerbase Was Made For

And John’s hunch proved to be true. He asked several Dallas-based law firms what features they’d want in an all-in-one platform. And started building solutions based on what those practices really needed: flexible and scalable software that was powerful, but easy for tech-novices to use.

Fast forward a few years of development and ongoing customer feedback, and Centerbase debuted at the 2017 ABA TECHSHOW. When the second day ended, there was a long line of legal consultants at the booth who were tired of offering out-of-date firm management products. Their excitement was proof that the years of research had paid off. And Centerbase was the next breakthrough in legal tech: a cloud-based, personalized platform to manage and grow law firms.

Centerbase & You Today

Now with continued development and acquisitions of Legalfit and Family Law Software, we’ve grown beyond a simple practice management platform. We power your firm from the first website visit to the final invoice – and you don’t have to be a technology wiz to use it.

The most amazing part of our story is every feature we built, every change we made, and every piece of code we perfected was driven by what real attorneys, real partners, and real admins at real firms needed. We’re proud that our customers’ technology dreams have fueled Centerbase. And we’re thrilled to keep our focus on you.

Because managing & growing your firm isn't supposed to be this easy. That's how you know Centerbase works.

The team that’s dedicated to helping you manage & grow a practice you can be proud of.

Take a look at the team dedicated to your firm’s success. They’re experts with histories of client success, transparency, and product innovation. Scroll over their photos to learn more!
Before leading our team at Centerbase, Paul served as CEO of ResMan and CEO of Sage payment Solutions (now Paya). With over 25 years of leadership experience in SaaS, Payments, and Fintech, Paul is relentless when it comes to delivering value to customers.

Paul Bridgewater

CEO and President
Having been the sue-er and the sue-ee, Bob understands the modern expectations of clients in the legal industry. He has a BS in Computer Science and has worked in multiple software companies. But Bob’s proudest accomplishment is helping customers win by always putting them first.

Bob Canaway

CMO
Marjorie Adair
With more than 20 years of professional experience in finance, accounting and business operations management and an MBA from Rockhurst University, Marjorie is an accomplished CFO with a results-driven track record in executive financial leadership for fast-growing venture and private equity backed organizations in SaaS, software technology and professional services industries.

Marjorie Adair

CFO
With multiple patents, nationwide technology innovation recognition and awards, and a BS in Computer Science with a business minor from Baylor, Bob is dedicated to bringing breakthrough solutions to our customers.

Bob Freeburg

CTO
Paige Roncke Chief Sales Strategy Officer Centerbase
Paige graduated from DePaul University College of Law, and after practicing law, moved into Sales Strategy and Operations in the transportation and software space. She's a proven leader in driving sales productivity + creating high-performing sales teams- and is incredibly excited to harness her strategic leadership expertise to better serve our future and current customers.

Paige Roncke

GM of Mid-Law
A legal industry veteran, with over 15-years experience, Karen Gray started her career as a practicing attorney before transitioning to the legal technology space. A seasoned leader of sales, implementation, support and customer success teams, Karen brings her unique perspective and understanding of the challenges facing the legal practitioner to help her customers with creative strategy and problem solving.

Karen Gray

GM of Small Law
Jose has led customer-obsessed teams for over 20 years and maintained a 98% retention for nearly 70 million ARR companies. He’s passionate about truly listening to what our customers tell us they need - and giving you a reason to be our customer for life.

Jose Fontanez

VP of Customer Operations
As a SHRM Certified Professional with multiple Best Place to Work awards, a BS in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota, and an MS in Family Studies from Texas Women’s University, Amanda is unwavering when it comes to supporting the needs of our customers and our own Centerbase team.

Amanda Mabrey

VP of People
Todd has been involved in over 75 transactions throughout his legal career. With a JD from Creighton University and a BA from Coe College, he’s passionate about championing customers by providing legal counsel to Centerbase.

Todd Buchardt

General Counsel

Partnering With Trusted Advisors in the Legal Industry

ALA, Bar associations, Affinity Consulting, and more - We partner with them to make sure the legal industry and our customers stay supported and fresh with innovation.

We’re here as your trusted advisor in the business of legal practices. Dedicated supporters and partners of key associations such as ALA, state Bars, Affinity Consulting, and more, we make sure to have the most updated industry knowledge to support you and deliver solutions based on your feedback.

We’re honored to be an ALA Business Partner, Affinity Consulting Strategic Partner, and supporter of Bar associations, where we’re recommended to firms across the country who are searching for top-of-the-line software solutions.

Aren’t you ready to manage and grow your firm the way high-performing practices do?

Customers Know Best

We know our customers are the best of the best. So when they give feedback, we take it to heart. Here’s what they’ve been saying about us lately.
“Knowing that you can access the data 24/7 365, and that when you pull the data, it's going to be accurate, means that you have the flexibility to do what you need to do whenever you need to do it. If you're traveling internationally, or if you're working outside the office, it means that you can keep those wheels turning, no matter where you are and what you're doing. And it means that you're going to capture more time. We lost huge amounts of time and productivity when we had an unreliable system. Before Centerbase, as the person that had to manage fixing the software and working with the software companies, we had lost days of productivity in my department.”
Christine Giles
Office Administrator
Bollier Ciccone, LLP
"Training in Centerbase is so much easier than what it would have been if I had to train somebody new in time matters. I really believe the system is very user-friendly. Anyone who has some semblance of an idea of working with computers, even if it's online shopping. Just being able to navigate tabs and engage filters to get to what you want is so much easier to train a new person on than our old system."
Aimee Gannon
Operations Manager
Gonser & Gonser, PA
"You framed it [Centerbase] around the dedicated legal operations function and a strong legal operations team. You got my attention with that, kind of speaking to my heart. Because that's what law firm administrators do. And that's what Centerbase helps us do. And that's the sandbox that you give me. It is effecting change. If you're not evolving, and constantly changing, and improving, you're gonna get passed by eventually. And that's what I've always enjoyed here is the diversity of role and responsibility. But Centerbase allowed us to elevate it to a whole new level."
Rob Sadler
Firm Administrator
Hofheimer Family Law
“We wanted to customize things. And we were limited in doing that in Abacus. So that was a huge asset that Centerbase had. That was one of the big-ticket items that swayed us to choose Centerbase .”
Kim Edwards
Director of Operations and Paralegal
Allison & Mosby-Scott
“From an efficiency standpoint, there's really no question. There are less things to break. If you have an intake tool and an accounting tool and a case management tool, you have two connections there that are guaranteed to give you problems. There are going to be updates to all three of those tools that are probably gonna knock that integration a bit out of whack. So I like that Centerbase is an all-in-one tool.”
David Holl
Business Operations Manager
McKean Smith
“Some of our clients have unique needs that Centerbase may not have been able to accommodate right out of the box, but between our account manager and their design team, we have been able to satisfy those requests.”
Donna Smith
Firm Administrator
Holtzman Vogel

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