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Virtual Practices’ SaaS and outsourced legal cashiering supports JBS Solicitors’ success
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SOSconnect logoStart-up JBS Solicitors has turned to Virtual Practices, the on-line software and outsourced legal cashiering division of Solicitors Own Software (SOS), for the provision of accounts, document and case management software delivered as a service.

Operations director Paul Barrett said: “Virtual Practices provided the ideal solution for our IT needs when we spun-out of a firm to set up our specialist personal injury operation, last year.”

Virtual Practices not only offers SOS Connect software as a service, but also the provision of outsourced legal cashiering, which is ideal for helping new firms to contain their start-up costs, but also be able to add users and expand the system on demand.

Keen to operate an integrated accounting, case and time management system for maximum efficiency, JBS Solicitors faced the inevitable dilemma of how to achieve high levels of sophistication within the IT budget available to the start-up.

Operations director Paul Barrett had previously encountered Bath-based Solicitors Own Software:  “I liked both the people and the software so got in touch. As a start-up we were worried about the investment required upfront to run our own integrated practice and case management system in-house. However, SOS  presented an alternative way of licensing the software through their Virtual Practices software as a service and legal outsourced legal cashiering division. This meant we could avoid a heavy capital outlay in IT by subscribing to a pay-as-you go model and also avoid the need for employing our own legal cashier. That had a massive appeal.”

The service has helped JBS Solicitors to evolve into a team of 17 personal injury specialists handling around 250 cases a month. Like most PI specialists, JBS relies on the accident management intermediaries to furnish cases and from its strong London presence is now providing a nationwide service dealing with claims for compensation for injuries and losses caused by all types of accidents. “The Virtual Practices service has helped us to become efficient and profitable,“ Paul Barrett comments, “ without the upfront capital costs of running IT in-house and without the red tape we have experienced in the past.”

Stephen Parry, business development director of Virtual Practices: “As well as offering software as a service, it is our outsourced legal cashiering service which distinguishes Virtual Practices and helps spin-outs and new firms get started secure in the knowledge that they are fully compliant with Law Society regulations.”

 

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