DPS Software Ltd

At DPS Software we have been providing  legal management software  to law firms the length and breadth of the UK for over 35 years. Our company is the only legal technology supplier in the UK to be ISO 27001:2013 & GDPR accredited at a company level, and we serve over 700 law firms with over 18,000 users. We are also the largest legal cloud supplier in the UK. Our case management systems cover conveyancing and remortgage, family and childcare, personal injury, crime and billing, will drafting, and probate and estate accounts. All of our case management systems can be customised to meet your individual requirements, and we have also adapted them so that they meet the needs of new ABSs that operate in a different way from traditional law firms. The systems can be supplied with ready to go templates for any area, such as employment law or immigration, or we can load your own precedents, workflows, and forms, providing you with a bespoke system. The workflows can also be...

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...