DPS Software Ltd

The legal billing software designed by DPS Software has been created to make your life that much simpler, and has been developed over a period of 30 years. It works from the time record, when the fee earner records time it is automatically added to the right claim form which then posts bills to the accounts. There is then a receipts module which automatically receipts each bill. When you create a letter, an attendance note, or send an email, you are prompted for your time by the system. Nothing is missed out, so all time is automatically billed. Time can also be recorded in real time as the work is carried out or added to the screen manually if required. Read more dpssoftware.co.uk

DPS Software has been creating software for law firms for over 30 years – and although we say so ourselves we are very, very good at it. After 30 years, we should be! Talk to any of our clients and they will tell you they are extremely happy with what we do, and in many cases say they couldn’t work without us. Check out what Beth King – partner in Bromley, South London, solicitors Marsons – says here: https://www.dpssoftware.co.uk/case-studies/marsons-solicitors/  We have some 700 law firms in the UK as clients, and between them they employ over 18,000 of our users. Mostly, they would describe their job titles as partner, practice manager, IT manager, solicitor, or legal cashier. Read more at dpssoftware.co.uk

There are a number of advantages to using legal billing software , not the least of which is the sheer amount of time it saves you. However, when you start to investigate it you will find that there are quite a number of options and many of the websites promoting such software have long lists of all the features which can lead to confusion. You sit there wondering which are the important parts and which are not. Worse still, you could choose a particular software only to find later on that it is actually missing a key feature that you really need.  This is why it is worth taking a short while to get to grips with what the software can do and whether it fits in with what you need it to do. There are certain things which are also considered “must have” and these should be incorporated into any software you choose. One important feature is time tracking no matter where you happen to be at any given moment. This means that the software must have the ability to t...

If you have been browsing the internet looking for law practice management software you will have noticed that there is a lot of choice. Every software firm is out there telling you that theirs’ is the best solution and giving you a lot of reasons why you should buy their product. This may have left you wondering exactly what software can do for your firm. A recent study of small law practices in the US by Thomson Reuters found that approximately 40% of a small firm’s time is actually spent on administrative and non-billable activities. That may come as a something of a shock. The activities included time spent searching for and finding matter documents, scheduling, cataloguing client information, time tracking, invoicing, and client and conflict management. Staff are generally performing all these tasks manually and using separate systems to carry them out. Obviously, if all this time could be eliminated and the work automated it would free up partners to wor...

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...