DPS Software Ltd

DPS Software provides users with criminal case management software that gives precedents covering a firm’s typical requirements yet is totally flexible. It is designed so that you can customise it to fit in with your own day to day working practice. It has been built from the ground up for the criminal lawyer who needs the control of the criminal franchise procedure yet wants to save a lot of the time associated with working with it. The DPS LAA crime billing system works with the latest Publicly Funded and Franchising Criteria. A full case history of each matter and the actions completed are held against the file and any user can access it without the need for paper file records. Read more at criminal case management software

Next Spring, something massive is coming that is going to lead to huge changes for millions of businesses in the UK. No, not Brexit, we’re talking about Making Tax Digital. Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a government initiative announced over three years ago in the March 2015 budget to transform the tax system and make it easier for everyone to maintain records and to get their tax correct. Under MTD, legal businesses will need to keep records digitally and make a quarterly return of data to HMRC, with a final adjusting return when figures are final.   Read more at legal accounts software

One of the most crucial things you can ever do as a lawyer is to ensure that your billing system is up to date and works perfectly. Even though we are in the 21st century and computers have been around and in use since the 1950's, there are a lot of law firms who are still using paper billing. If you stop to think about it, if you don't send your bills out on time and so that they make sense to the client, at the very least they will not pay you on time. Today you can get legal billing software which takes care of all the hard work, and the best legal billing software makes the process a breeze. The quicker you send out your bills, the quicker you are likely to get paid, and getting paid is ultimately what we are all in business for. Billing used to be considered nuisance work but is actually the basis for your prospects for future financial stability and growth. Furthermore, the quality of your invoices and how they appear and the manner in which you...

If your law practice is still using paper systems to manage your accounts, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage with other firms and you will continue to suffer from errors that occur, because we are all human.  On the other hand, you might already be using software for accounting, but it is not designed specifically for the legal profession. There is plenty of accounting software out there, and some will tell you that theirs can be used for law firms, but the reality is that a general software is clunky to operate because the legal profession is like no other. The best legal accounting software is one that is designed specifically for law firms and will work out of the box. That is certainly a good starting point, but you also want legal accounting software that can be customised for your own particular practice area. A software that is customisable will also ensure that as your law firm grows your software is able to adapt and expand alongside you. ...