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Legal Software and Information Technology Suppliers I to J

Information on software suppliers, IT consultants and companies associated with legal software, maintained by Delia Venables.
These descriptions are based partly on Delia's own notes and partly on the information provided by the suppliers themselves.

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Iken Business Ltd is a specialist case management, time recording, workflow and document management application for public and private sector lawyers. It has been selling its system since 2000 and is currently the fastest growing supplier of legal case management to local government with sales to 70 councils in the UK. It also has an automated court bundling system in use with 30 councils. Iken has private sector legal clients and clients outside the legal sector including case management in central government, and has users in North America and the Republic of Ireland. Iken has a strong commitment to the English Law Society's Lexcel standard and offers a complete working environment covering all forms of legal work from unstructured "solicitor-led" to structured "process-led" types, which simplifies the task of compliance and risk management.

iManage (Autonomy iManage) is a worldwide company offering document management, content management, intranets, collaborative workspaces and portal software for major firms. The major software suite is called The Interwoven 6 Product Suite.

Interwoven has been acquired by Autonomy.

Infographics is the UK distribution partner for FloSuite business process and case management software, used by UK Legal 200 and major international corporate law firms (see also the entry under F, above). Built on .NET technology, FloSuite enables legal specialists to define, deploy and continually evolve core business processes in real time, directly from the desktop, without any IT development requirement. This flexibility allows FloSuite to support cross-discipline legal case management and team-based collaboration, as well as automating processes like new file opening.

infolaw provides a full range of electronic publishing services for the legal sector, plus electronic forms and precedents and document assembly solutions using HotDocs.

Inpractice UK is one of the largest independent specialist consultancies working with lawyers across the UK to develop new business strategies and to improve performance by opening up new opportunities and improving profits. A team of 10 experienced consultants each with their areas of expertise (people development, client relationships, market research, risk management, bids and tenders) that include selection of IT systems, making better use of existing IT, improvement of business processes, introducing CRM and HR systems.

InQuisita Law is now part of IRIS Legal. See entry under IRIS InQuisitaLaw

Interface Software was bought by LexisNexis. See entry under LexisNexis Interaction.

IRIS Legal is the largest privately owned UK software company and is the main supplier of case and practice management and electronic legal forms to the UK legal sector. Companies which now form part of IRIS Legal include AIM, Videss, Mountain, Laserform, OPSIS, AlphaLAW, Formation Software and Shaw's Forms on Disk. The software portfolio includes practice and case management (including workflow), electronic forms, customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, skills and resource management, document imaging, HR & payroll all underpinned by managed and hosted service offerings. With 30 years of experience and 300 specialist staff, IRIS Legal Solutions supports over 5,500 legal services providers and over 154,000 users.

Descriptions of the key legal software products provided by IRIS Legal follow:

IRIS Law (Business Edition) is a 'ready to run' accounting, billing and case management solution that require minimal set up, implementation and training. It provides a complete, advanced legal office software solution including the automatic creation, storage and retrieval of standard documents, pre-written legal workflows, reporting, Microsoft Outlook integration and a digital dashboard which collates all aspects of your fee earners' day into a single viewable window. IRIS Law (Business Edition) is integrated with IRIS Laserform and has very strong Legal Aid capabilities.

IRIS Law (Enterprise Edition) is an enterprise level Legal accounts, practice and case management solution for large law firms and is a flagship product in the IRIS Legal portfolio. IRIS Law (Enterprise Edition) is fully integrated with IRIS Fully configurable workflows and advanced legal accounts make this product ideal for large firms with complex working practices.

IRIS Law Scotland is a legal accounting, billing and case management solution specifically designed for Scottish law firms that require minimal set up, implementation and training. It provides a complete, advanced legal office software solution including the automatic creation, storage and retrieval of standard documents, pre-written legal workflows, reporting, Microsoft Outlook integration and a digital dashboard which collates all aspects of your fee earners' day into a single viewable window. IRIS Law Scotland is integrated with IRIS Laserform.

IRIS InQuisita Law is a web-based specialist chambers management system, which includes diary, case and fees management, together with time billing and invoicing functionality. It features a simple operational design containing features for all types of user, including diary management, time recording, billing workflow, invoicing, document management, reporting and marketing. It facilitates the ease of sharing of information - both internally within chambers and externally to third party applications. It is fully customisable and configurable. The software requires little familiarisation, with all functions clearly identifiable by icons and menus. Extensive use of hyperlinks ensures that all key information is easy to find, with predictive text entry and shortcuts allowing users to speed through their daily tasks. The powerful search engine makes finding data simple. The comprehensive set of pre-defined reports enable information to be easily extracted on demand for analysis and to support the chambers strategic decision-making process. There are 2 optional extras - IQ Exchange to view diary and tasks from hand-held devices, and IQ Guardian for back up and disaster recovery.

IRIS Laserform provides users access to a library of over 1600 legally accurate UK electronic legal forms, with many features built-in to improve efficiency, risk management and save time. Unique functionality includes context sensitive help within the most difficult forms, forms bundle to link and save a group of associated forms as one file, screen notes function to add ad hoc comments to a form in sticky note style, bulletin reminders for advanced notification of updated, new and obsolete forms, Word text editing including legal numbering, intranet forms version for browser-based organisations. Complementary support services comprise online services for form updating and regular information bulletins. Add-on products include the IHT400+ enhanced inheritance tax forms application for automatic data population and calculation, and SDLT e-Submissions software for electronic submission of SDLT forms from their desktop direct to the HMRC Government Gateway.

IRIS Meridian Law is used by the vast majority of UK chambers and has successfully serviced the Bar for over 20 years. It enables clerks to specify and control the automation of a wide range of tasks and manage the workload of any number of barristers through effective document, billing and diary management, with reporting and client contact facilities. Benefits include improved billing and cash collection through automated workflows, optimised chambers' performance through defined and measured key performance indicators and reporting, increased revenue through improved management of cases and diaries, effective management of barristers' workloads through more efficient document management, reporting and client contact facilities.

IRIS Meridian Law Connected is a feature-rich chambers management system which offers real business efficiencies to chambers. The product extends its functional reach beyond clerks, providing key information and analysis to barristers and chambers managers. Sophisticated workflows support each case in order to easily manage procedures and handle debt. These can be tailored to suit the needs of the chambers, clients or individual cases. It offers assistance with all types of graduated fees calculation, meaning that claims can be produced quickly, easily and accurately. Integrated marketing functionality enables you to run targeted campaigns to your selection of database contacts via email, post or fax using a wide range of user definable criteria. The intuitive CRM module means greater visibility of your relationships with existing clients, which in turn will improve retention and grow your business by helping to identify cross-selling opportunities and win new customers. The business intelligence reporting module offers users the ability to effortlessly generate detailed, analytical reports and charts which enable in-depth analysis of chambers activities such as the origins of work referral and the turnaround of fee payments.

IRIS Shaw's Forms on Disk contains an extensive catalogue of local government, legal and finance electronic forms in a user-friendly format. Time saving benefits include flexible fields to cater for varying lengths of entry text, auto-population of company details and clauses, help guides and user prompts to assist users through form completion, searchable catalogue to easily locate relevant forms, online updating facility and e-bulletin update service.

Isokon is the leading supplier of software for trust and probate and the only supplier of court of protection software. Their solutions can be scaled for large firms or small ones (there are currently over 1000 individual users at 90 firms using the software). Isokon employ a team of former practitioners and tax experts who actually help users to do the work. This means that users are able to send an email or make a call and will receive a detailed answer within minutes. Isokon can also connect remotely and actually show the practitioner what to do. 94% of their support queries do not concern the software at all but how to do the work. Isokon undertake to tailor any part of the software to fit the client's needs. They customize letters, workflows, estate accounts and anything else that the client requests. Isokon also take requests from users and put them into the development chain so that others may adopt them if they so wish. All customisation is free of charge.

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JCS Software is now part of Cognito

j t-w consulting ltd helps lawyers implement quality and risk management systems. The company provides qualified professionals who are experts in Lexcel, QMS4LAW®, ISO9001:2008, BARMARK® and IIP. Further support includes training in Management, Quality Management, Appraisal, and other related subjects, all SRA approved for CPD. The name of the firm comes from founder and key consultant Jay Tayler-Webb.

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