DPS Software Ltd

Legal case management software has been around for some time now. Indeed, at DPS software we have been providing assistance to legal practices for over 30 years so it is not as though the idea is some sort of amazing new technology that has only just arrived on the market, even though we strive to add new features all the time. What is surprising is just how many law firms are still using 20th century methods involving the use of lots of paper which require a large amount of physical storage. It is probably fair to say that even today legal firms cannot manage without a certain amount of paper. For instance, if an original document needs to be shown in court it has to be the original document, not an online copy.  Read more at Legal case management software

More and more UK lawyers are beginning to realise the importance of matter management software . In a nutshell, matter management software will save you a considerable amount of time, and by doing so will enable you to increase your profitability. As such, perhaps the only surprising thing is that not all firms are using it yet. It has actually been around for a very long time, with one company having begun to develop it over 30 years ago. Today it has evolved to the point where it is very sophisticated and can perform a number of different functions. Legal software can be installed and used on premise or it can be accessed on the cloud. The latter is becoming far more popular for the simple reason that it can be accessed from anywhere that there is an internet connection. No longer do you have to sit in court twiddling your thumbs because the present case is taking far longer than expected: you can log in on your laptop or tablet – or even your mobile phone – and...

Does your law firm have law practice management software ? If not, why not? This is, after all, the 21st century and legal practice software has been around for many years now. However, it is true that even in the US, where they have been somewhat faster than we have in the UK to adapt, there are still only just over half of law firms using it.  This could be for a number of reasons. One of these may be the fact that, as lawyers, we have a huge amount of confidential client data that we don’t want falling into the wrong hands. Quite right, too. You may feel that your own local server is more secure than having all that information “out there” on the cloud, especially considering there have been a number of breaches that have received attention. However, most of those have been a result of human error, not a fault in the software. The fact is that cloud based systems have all sorts of security built into them and most have regular attempted attacks in or...