DPS Software Ltd

So, you’ve got a document you need signed by two separate parties. These parties could be opposite sides of the country or even the world! What do you do? Do you send it in the post to one party, wait for them to sign it and return it to you to send on to the other, where you then have to wait for them to sign and return it again, hoping that it doesn’t get lost somewhere along the way? Frankly, that sounds like a ridiculous, antiquated way of doing business. Do you send the document by email to one party, to print, sign, scan and send it back, then repeat the process with the second party? Better, but still, imagine all that wasted paper printing documents that will end up in the bin. What if the party doesn’t have a printer or scanner? Again, not an ideal situation. Read more at Legal management software

DPS Software has been providing our legal case management system to UK law firms for over 30 years. Today we serve over 700 law firms and more than 18,000 individual users with software covering every area of practice. The case management systems cover conveyancing, crime, personal injury, family, and wills and probate. These are backed up by a fully integrated accounting package and digital dictation systems. Today, DPS Software is the largest legal cloud in the UK and is the only legal practice software provider to offer an integrated managed IT solution under the same roof. Read more at legal case management system to UK

Note that we said legal accounting software for law firms . There is a multitude of accounting software that you can buy, some of which is off the shelf and some of which is specific to the legal profession. If you are going to invest in software, it is not a good idea to use a generic off the shelf solution because the legal profession has its own special requirements and software that is specifically for lawyers takes all that into account.  To begin with, you need to record your time. However, you can be working on a case and then you receive a telephone call from a client which takes ten minutes. With legal accounting software for law firms many have timers that can be stopped and started in the programmes you use every day such as word processing, emails, your calendar and so on, and most legal software provides a traditional time sheet that also has timers. When you click finished, the time is saved to the client and matter. You also need to differenti...

When researching software for law firms in the UK remember to consider data security. Cybercrime has reached dangerous levels as displayed by the attack on NHS computer systems. Alright, the NHS is still using Windows 7 but even so you would not expect a security breach on that scale.  Your software supplier should be able to show that they are accredited to ISO 27001. This is the international standard for best security practice. They should also be Cyber Essentials accredited. This is a government backed certification scheme that sets out minimum levels of cyber security and is intended to prevent security breaches. A supplier should also undertake regular penetration tests and should be able to supply a report on the latest one.  Furthermore, the software should include an audit trail so that you can see if any users are accessing areas that they should not be, but better still the software should prevent them from doing so in the first place.  ...