DPS Software Ltd

More and more legal firms in the UK are switching over to cloud-based law firm management software because of the number of benefits it offers. However, having said that the figure is still less than 50%, and one wonders why. The fact is that law firms hold a lot of sensitive data on their clients, and this makes them a target for hackers who would like to gain access to it and hold the firm to ransom. However, although there have been some breaches of security on cloud-based systems, these have been mainly due to human error rather than faults in the cloud. In fact, locally stored data is probably more likely to get hacked than cloud-based data because the software suppliers by definition have to maintain the very highest levels of security at all times, otherwise they would go out of business in very short order. The many benefits of cloud-based law firm management software include the fact that it is accessible from anywhere with any device. No need to go back to the off...

If you are considering upgrading your law practice to a cloud-based solution you will be joining an ever-increasing number of other practices who are going down the same road. It would be fair to say that the best law practice management software is in the cloud now, rather than on a local server. Just to begin with, one very big advantage of using cloud-based legal management software is that it totally does away with the need for your own hardware, an IT expert to   run it, the expense of ongoing maintenance, the need for regular upgrades, and the chances of your server going down at the most awkward moment (all servers seem to know by default what the most critical moment is). Furthermore, you don't need one software for time management, another for matter management, and yet another for billing and accounts. The best law practice management software in the cloud covers all these areas and more. Furthermore, on premise software can be compromised much more eas...

At DPS Software, our matter management software is used by over 700 legal practices nationally and has over 18,000 individual users. This is the result of over 30 years of refining systems for the legal industry and incorporates everything we have developed over that period of time. The result is a system that covers every aspect of a law practice, and in some instances contains more than an individual practice might need. For this reason, DPS Software’s system is supplied in modules so that any practice can subscribe to the modules that it needs and simply not use the ones that it does not require. Everything is available in the cloud but can also be used on your in-house servers if required. Indeed, some of our clients undertake some of their activities, such as banking for instance, on their own server and use our cloud hosted servers for other aspects of their practice. Read more at: our matter management software

DPS Software produces the best legal software bar none. Yes, there are other companies that offer software solutions for the legal profession, but DPS Software has over 30 years of experience in the legal technology sector and serves over 700 firms nationally with over 18,000 individual users. DPS Cloud is the largest legal cloud supplier in the UK and is the first and only legal software supplier to provide an integrated hosted IT solution under the same roof. Whichever way you want to go, DPS Software has you covered. We are also the only legal technology supplier in the UK to be ISO 27001:2013 & GDPR accredited at a company level. Our software solutions have been built from the ground up and are designed so that the user can pick and choose which modules are required and leave out those which are not. So for example, if you are a practice which undertakes personal injury claims and not conveyancing, you simply do not need the conveyancing module so you leave it out. Of cou...

Many legal practices, particularly the smaller ones, shy away from using legal matter management software because they have some flawed beliefs about it. Not the least of these is that there may be a fear of using new technology, especially in a practice where the partners are, shall we say, heading towards retirement. The old "We've always done it this way" thing. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Added to that are concerns about security. Let's deal with the second matter first. The security of online legal matter management software is above reproach. It has to be, because if it wasn't, major law firms simply wouldn't use it. It also has a variety of different backup mechanisms just in case anything should go down. In fact, you are safer with it than filing papers in your own office which could well get lost or misfiled. So you may have no fears on that score. The simple fact is that legal matter management software works and works very ...

Every law firm wants to operate with maximum efficiency and spend as much time as possible working on billable hours, not on back office work such as drafting bills. This is essentially the case for small firms who don't have enough work to employ an accounts department, and therefore it falls to fee earners to do it themselves. Yet it has to be done, and the sooner it is done, the faster the turn-around time of cash coming through the door. Legalbilling software for small firms can make all the difference. Back in the day, lawyers had no choice other than to prepare their own bills, but it is a time-consuming and tedious business. Now legal billing software for small firms has made life so much easier because it can be done by a computer instead. One of the advantages of legal billing software is that you can create client and contact lists that make it simple to keep track of time spent on individual clients and different tasks and raise a bill accordingly. Anot...