DPS Software Ltd

Hands up everyone who enjoys logging their time! Yes, we rather expected a resounding silence. Whatever job or profession you are in, there will always be parts of it that HAVE to be done regardless, but that you don’t enjoy. As far as the legal profession is concerned, the thing that everybody can’t live without is Time Recording. How wonderful it would be if we can just hand the whole thing over to an app. Well, with DPS iTime, our legal time recording app , now you can. Read more dpssoftware.co.uk

Twenty years ago, billing was pretty much the same for everyone. Whether you owned a law firm, an ironmongers, a timber yard, or you were an accountant, you simply produced a paper document – possibly at the end of each month – and posted it to your client or customer. How the advent of the internet and online billing has changed all that! Today, most of us bill online and receive payment online. Remember those things called cheques? If you are a lawyer you may bill in one of a different number of ways. For instance, if you are working on a contingency basis/no win, no fee, you won’t be sending a bill at all if you don’t win the case. When you do win the case you then have to send an itemised bill for what has been agreed.  However, if you are working on an hourly basis you have to bill by the hour. More complicated still, if you have a client for whom you are working on his divorce and at the same time defending him on a drink driving charge, the bill...

A legal case management system will make the life of any hard-working lawyer easier. These systems are cloud based and accessed via your web browser from your PC, laptop, smartphone, or tablet. Imagine the convenience of being able to access all of your cases wherever you happen to be! You can be in a train, in a taxi, or sitting in court waiting for the current case to finish before yours is called, and instead of wasting time you can be productive. So not only are you earning from the case in which you are appearing, but you are also earning from any other case that you happen to be working on. The functions of a web based case management system are similar to those in desktop software, but you are not tied to the office.  The software provides actionable data on all of your key performance indicators. You can see how an individual, a department, or a whole branch is performing against their target over any given period of time. You can monitor matters t...