Legal Software and Information Technology Suppliers K & L
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.
Katron Systems Limited provide the
Solidus range of solicitors software including Accounts, Bulk Debt
Collection, Practice Management and Case Management software.
Written in 1983 the software has continued to evolve and runs under any Microsoft platform using either
Microsoft Access or SQL Server as it's core database. Katron Systems is a software and Hardware supplier
and can provide a full bespoke solution from designing your initial system, providing hardware, software,
cabling and support thorugh to the final commissioning. They are happy to integrate with other suppliers
or can become the 'one-stop' IT supplier
KnowHow Consulting designs, develops and delivers leading edge Information Management
solutions for many national and international law firms, patent and trademark attorneys, government organisations and commercial businesses.
KnowHow partners with Open Text, Microsoft, DocsCorp, Kofax, SeeUnity and others, to offer a broad range of solutions to our clients including
Document and Email Management, Knowledge Management, Collaboration/Portals (including using Microsoft SharePoint), Scanning and scanning solutions,
PDF Management and Search. KnowHow's consultants offer a combination of expert technical advice and implementation skills, allowing them to assist
their clients both with identifying their requirements and delivering them. They also offer services for the full life cycle of the project from project planning and
business analysis through implementation and integration, to support, training and account management.
Lawbase are specialists in case management.
Lawbase is a powerful tool but simple to use and has links to other legal software
such as electronic forms
and document managememnt. Lawbase Case Management provides a cost-effective
way to develop systems quickly and reliably. Lawbase offers a design and
implementation service to produce systems to a firm's specification.
Lawbase also supplies specialist systems for wills (English and Scottish),
Probate and Executry.
LawCloud is a hosted, cloud-based version of the practice, matter and
case management product called LawWare Enterprise, from
LawWare.
LawCloud is available at a fixed low monthly cost, offering flexibility, scalability and security for
law firms and solicitors in the UK.
Law Systems are developers of "Probate Plus", a program to automate the processes of
probate work, accounting and assist with form and document production. Now on version 4, the system, which is very widely used, records
estate details and dealings from the first instructions to the final distributions and provides a auto-balancing and constantly updated picture
of the deceased estate during administration with interim and final accounts being instantly available. The software is published in the UK by
Sweet & Maxwell Limited as part of their extensive digital product range.
LAWMAN from Timeslice Ltd, longstanding Docklands based
suppliers to the legal profession, is legal Practice, Document, Email and Case Management Software.
The system is designed around and integrates the latest Microsoft SqlServer, Dot Net
and Microsoft Office Platforms. It is utilised by a strong, loyal and steadily growing client base of major
Legal 500 practices including some in the top 100 category.
Features include comprehensive Client Matter database, Billing, Draft Billing, digital time recording,
integrated ledgers and Money laundering compliance.
Users can access the system via a 'Fee Earner' style desktop or using an Outlook Client with full integration
to other commonly used software i.e. Word, Outlook, Excel.
The system also offers internet integration with client access via a security controlled web portal.
There is a comprehensive Document and Email Management system with features such as Document Security,
Versioning, Scanning and automatic filing of inbound and outbound documents and emails.
Timeslice also offer a full range of managed services, hosting and
specialist It consultancy through their sister company Minervia
Minervia.
LawPracticeConsultancy.com (lpc) is an
IT consultancy run by Jonathan Edwards, previously Managing Partner for 16 years of a major
firm of solicitors, Golds of Glasgow, now part of Irwin Mitchell.
The consultancy assists law firms and legal service providers to increase their profitability,
productivity and effectiveness. lpc's advice is based upon
long experience of top level legal management combined with a deep understanding of the delivery of legal
services and the fundamental use of systemisation and technology.
Believing that the current downturn will signify an axiomatic transformation in the delivery of legal services,
with an ever-increasing blurring between commoditisation and traditional provision, lpc specialise in advice on:-
(i) re-engineering legal processes;
(ii) the creation of an effective online strategy which simultaneously serves both the organisation and their clients;
(iii) the need to modify the structure and management of law firms to meet harsher times and a changed economy; and
(iv) general technology implementation and design.
LawPro Legal is a client and matter centric
practice management system giving the fee earner complete management of contacts, clients, matters and cases,
all from one place. With its innovative document management and MS Outlook integration capabilities, users are able to generate
and store emails, reminders, office and court diaries and record them against matters and clients.
LawPro's configurable security model allows firms to allocate as much or as little control as they wish over its complete
accounting, time recording, billing and reporting functions and its intuitive user interface means that users are up and
running in a short time, with minimal training. Although LawPro was originally designed for the smaller practice,
the advantages of an easy to use, good value and complete system was quickly appreciated by larger firms and the client
list today comprises over 100 firms ranging from over 60 terminals down to sole practitioners.
Law-Writer is an online client-management system for lawyers. The system was
envisaged and directed by solicitors at a high street law practice in Oxford
and developed in partnership with a software house that specialises in
Internet applications. Law-Writer enables secure access to the firm's client
and case data from any Internet computer: from home, office, anywhere.
Law-Writer does not require any servers to be maintained at the office.
Simply login and use. Any type of case or matter may be handled by the
Law-Writer system. There is more information in the video on the site.
Lawyers On Line is
already well known as an Internet Service Provider who is
also active in the software market related to internet products, mainly for
Sole Practitioners and smaller firms. Rather than 'off the shelf' software
they produce, host & support basic and complex interactive software solutions.
They can provide a wide variety of software from 'Quote Calculators' to complex multi-user secure systems including File
Transfer, Intranet, Extranet & Database Applications.
Legal Software Suppliers Assocation
The Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA)
is the UK industry body for legal systems developers and vendors. Representing most of the leading UK suppliers,
it aims to both set and maintain professional standards within the industry and manage areas of mutual
interest between lawyers and software providers.
The LSSA has numerous links with legislative bodies – such as the Land Registry, LSC, Law Society, etc –
and is committed to developing clear channels of communication to enable law firms to gain the maximum benefit
from their selected software solutions.
Legal Workflow Limited, founded by former partner in private practice Martin Langan,
provides legal IT strategy, operational and business process planning and implementation services for law firms and in house legal departments.
The company has a particular speciality in tailoring workflows for most legal disciplines, bringing the perspective and long experience of a solicitor
to the design and deployment of workflows that work for legal practitioners and deliver efficiencies and increased productivity and profitability.
LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically
for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets.
LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis and Nexis services. A member of
Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide.
LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions develop workflow based software productivity solutions delivering innovation, best practice and efficiencies to
legal practitioners & professional service firms enabling them to drive business performance and differentiation in a highly competitive global
environment. Over 50% of the UK’s top 250 law firms use LexisNexis solutions, which are designed to assist firms to excel in the business
and practice of law.
LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions’ offering includes these (each of these described further below):
• LexisNexis dna, a fully integrated financial and practice management solution developed on a web based business process management platform
• LexisNexis Visualfiles, case and matter management software
• LexisNexis Streamline, best-of-breed, single platform for legal and business process workflow management
• LexisNexis InterAction, customer relationship management software
• LexisNexis Redwood Analytics Business Intelligence and budgeting software and services
• LexisCheck, intelligent legal software that ensures legal references are up to date across documents, in internet resources and within all files of a firm’s document management system.
Now, in more detail:
LexisNexis dna is a fully integrated financial and practice management solution developed on a web based business process management platform.
The software has been designed from the ground up to overcome challenges such as client and regulatory demands and the effects of competition and the economy,
to provide a single integrated business process management environment.
LexisNexis Streamline integrates and manages all a firm's legal and business applications in a single workflow environment with a standard look and feel.
The microsoft-based, scalable and robust platform enables systems integration with pre-built or custom adapters for the leading best-of-breed third-party applications,
flexible workflow design and management and innovative document assembly capabilities.
With a library of ‘Best practice’ framework solutions, LexisNexis Streamline offers rapid deployment with assurance of ongoing compliance.
LexisNexis Visualfiles provides highly configurable and saleable case management toolkits for both high volume and general purpose work.
The software has more than 25 years pedigree of delivering trusted high performance. Facilities include unattended processing of routine tasks,
powerful scheduling and event triggers, sophisticated integration facilities for best of breed and B2B implementations,
user defined workflows and easy ongoing refinement enabling rapid reaction to rapidly changing client and market demands.
LexisNexis InterAction is the only CRM solution developed exclusively for the professional services and successfully implemented in 50% of the UK legal 100
and 82% AML law. The software allows the user to increase their relationship intelligence with exclusive features like Who Knows Whom and My Watch List.
The system integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and Novell and incorporates the latest ‘Mobile CRM’ capabilities.
There are innovative and unrivalled data quality and data change management tools.
LexisNexis Redwood Analytics provides Business Intelligence and Budgeting software and services for the legal industry.
The solutions enable law firms to analyse and monitor performance, focusing on the most significant drivers of the business of law and provides access
to information that supports better decision making.
LexisCheck is intelligent legal software that ensures legal references are up to date across documents, in internet resources and within all files of a
firm’s document management system.
LJ Computers Ltd are software and
training specialists. They can supply hardware, software, training and general support.
Featured in the Law Society's Software Solutions Guide 2008 Member of the Legal Software Suppliers Assocation Linetime are dedicated to the supply and support of high-quality,
high-functionality legal software solutions. Their integrated software system, Liberate, is based on a single Microsoft
SQLServer database and contains, at its core, a fully-SAR compliant (including Legal Services Commission Billing)
Practice Accounting system and a highly-flexible Case Management system. Written using .NET technology Linetime’s
case management software Liberate SE (Signature Edition) provides the latest in combined case and matter
management software. As suitable for complex and varied work as it is for high volume, procedural case types,
Liberate SE accommodates both within the same, secure database. For users who wish to work outside of the confines
of a workflow-driven case management system Linetime matter management provides the fee earner with the tools to
drive the case as they see fit yet still within the confines of the practices standards framework. Liberate B2C is a
sophisticated client web access portal that allows clients to review current case and matter details, create new cases
and matters and exchange instructions via a secure Internet connection, Liberate B2C users are able to submit and
receive instructions and review individual cases and matters. Individual private clients are allowed to view their own
case and matter details whilst the Partner Zone allows "bulk referrers" to view details of all of their client's transactions.
Linetimes Debt Recovery system DebtimeSQL provides firms with specialist debt recovery tools not available in
solutions based around generic case management systems – these tools provide firms with the differentiator when
bidding for business and delivering efficient recovery solutions.
