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08 September 2010
Lees Solicitors LLP is a Wirral-based, multi-disciplinary practice employing over 100 staff at offices in Birkenhead, Heswall, and West Kirby.
The practice recently chose Eclipse's Proclaim Practice Management system as a firm-wide replacement to its incumbent software. Eleni Kinch, Professional Support Principal at Lees, tells us about the practice, its reasons for IT investment and its strategy for the future.
Tikit Return from Las Vegas
08 September 2010
Tikit, one of the leading providers of software solutions and services to the legal and accountancy sectors worldwide, has returned from Las Vegas, having experienced significant interest and success at ILTA 2010. The event also proved to be an excellent opportunity to engage with some of the world's leading law firms on the latest developments for the sector in North America.
Business growth fuels SOS team expansion
08 September 2010
Following an increase in business due to the popularity of SOS Connect for integrated case and practice management among mid-tier firms, Solicitors Own Software is expanding its team of people. Experienced marketer Liza Malagoli joins as the new marketing executive while the line-up of workflow consultants is strengthened with the appointment of Abi Smith and Brian Christensen.
HBJ Gateley Wareing’s new Manchester office to move immediately to LawSoft
07 September 2010
Birmingham-based HBJ Gateley Wareing has taken on the corporate and commercial teams of the former Halliwells Manchester office. The move brings over 200 new staff, including 40 partners, to the national law firm, bringing total staff numbers to more than 750.HBJ Gateley Wareing utilises LawSoft practice management and to aid speedy integration between the new Manchester office and the rest of the business, Pilgrim and the firm are working on a project to enable the Manchester office to utilise LawSoft as soon as possible.
Law Firm Punch Robson Appoints Voice Technologies to Provide Digital Dictation Support
06 September 2010
Digital dictation specialist to deliver technical support to help legal practice boost efficiency and improve accuracy
Voice Technologies has been appointed to provide digital dictation software and technical support to UK Legal 500 law firm Punch Robson to help the business increase productivity and efficiency on a day-to-day basis.
DPS Software releases Automated Civil Billing Software
02 September 2010
DPS Software have released the new civil billing function of their case management software to allow automated fixed fee billing and online submission. The criminal billing software from DPS has always been fully automated producing bills and automated submissions directly from the fee earners attendance note. The automation continues through to the bill posting in accounts and the receipting from the standard monthly payment. This same level of automation has now been released for the other LSC funded areas including Family, Debt, Education and Action Against the Police.
LawSoft auto billing - Harper Macleod report real benefits for clients
27 August 2010
The legal landscape is forever evolving and any law firm with sustainability and client satisfaction in its vision needs to continually assess and develop its technology. Scottish commercial law firm, Harper Macleod does not shy away from adopting new technology, having recently overhauled its billing system by significantly increasing the use of LawSoft Auto Billing - and improving its service to clients as a result.
LexisNexis Streamline Delivers First Bespoke International Networking Solution to Farrer & Co
26 August 2010
Farrer & Co’s customised CRM solution to support firm’s ‘International Lawyer Network’ programme
LexisNexis® UK, a leading provider of content-enabled workflow solutions including legal enterprise software, today announced that London-based, Legal 500 law firm Farrer & Co LLP, has implemented its first bespoke international networking solution using LexisNexis® Streamline®, a best-of-breed rapid application development platform. This new solution, developed to support the ‘Farrer International Lawyer Network’ programme, is improving Farrer & Co’s international networking ability by allowing the firm to actively develop relationships with lawyers across the globe for potential collaboration opportunities.
Elite 2010 UK/EMEA User Group Meeting
26 August 2010
Elite is excited to host the 2010 UK/EMEA User Group meeting on September 16 at the historic Holborn Bars in London. This annual meeting is free for Elite customers to attend and includes a full agenda of educational sessions, discussion groups, enhancement voting, peer networking, lunch and an evening cocktail reception.
FWBS Providing „Designed for iPad‟ Legal Functionality Through MatterSphere
24 August 2010
FWBS is recognised as one of the leading innovators in law firm technology, providing cutting edge software to meet the changing demands faced by law firms and corporate legal departments worldwide. For over a decade the MatterCentre product has provided legal professionals with versatile, client and matter centric information management, all from within the familiarity of the Microsoft Office suite.
"A common vision for control and governance of email and documents that will satisfy legal requirements and address cost and feasibility concerns from the IT department is slowly emerging. The publication of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has helped a great deal by codifying the common components that the legal department needs and that IT must provide." 
"The persistence of temporary backup files for four days presents obvious security and privacy issues. If such files contain sensitive, confidential, or otherwise privileged information, their existence can expose a law firm to malpractice risk, court sanctions, or other serious problems / penalties
"The UK Legal market is certainly not a leader in Social Networking but one or two firms are using some of the tools such as Linkedin, Blogs, Twitter and a couple are experimenting with Facebook as a consumer facing marketing tool. " 
