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Managed Services Consultancy (MSC) is a new company formed by two existing, well established, consultancies in the legal IT market, inpractice, led by Allan Carton, and Professional Choice Consultancy, led by Bill Kirby. Both of the existing consultancies will continue with their own clients and projects but the new company will help law firms evaluate the options for outsourcing all or part of their IT and, where appropriate, will help then procure and manage the process. There is a whole new field developing at the moment for which a number of different terms are used, including outsourcing of IT, managed services, Software as a Service (SaaS), hosted services and remote access software. What these concepts share is the fact that software and IT services are not necessarily provided in-house, but can be run elsewhere, either on the systems of the softwre developers, or on companies who do not provide software themselves as such, but run many different types of software on their systems on behalf of the client. proejcts can involve firms of many sizes, from the largest to the smallest firms (including virtual firms) setting up and wishing to outsource their IT. The new company will enagage with all these methods of IT delivery and will assist firms in choosing, and then managing and evaluating, the systems chosen. There are a number of case studies on the site (not just from their own clients) intended as a knowledge base of managed services projects.

Meticulus Solutions offers a document management system for the smaller firm. The software works in the background, using an indexing routine that automatically stores every document in the right place. When the moment comes to retrieve a document, the search tools find the document and place it on your desktop - instantly. Meticulist is fully integrated into Microsoft Outlook allowing the storage and searching of emails from within the document management system. There is also a product called Red Letter, which is a secure, encrypted, recorded delivery email system providing confidentiality and proof of delivery in email communications. Red Letter is delivered as a self-contained appliance ready to plug into the enterprise network, with no disruption to the existing email infrastructure and recipients of emails do not need any special software.

Miles 33 is a company specialising in publishing systems for newspapers and magazines as well as legal solutions. The company was formed in 1976 and has over 100 people working for it. It is based in Bracknell, Berkshire and also in the USA. The company has been providing solutions and services to the legal market for over 20 years. The main legal software is called Precedent which is a Practice Management System designed around the Oracle Relational Database System. Precedent for Windows is a set of modules which enable partners, fee-earners and secretaries to access the main Precedent system and provide many types of report. There is also a new service for smaller firms called Smart in which Miles provide hardware to run on the user's premises but Miles provide all the management of hardware and software for the system. This provides the firm with the benefits of Miles software without the burden of ownership. Miles do not have their own case management software to offer their users but are prepared to work with the major suppliers of case management systems to provide a linked approach.

Moore Legal Technology, based in Glasgow, is an information technology and communication consultancy set up by Stephen Moore, with services designed for law firms of all shapes and sizes. The areas covered on the web site are Getting Started, IT Strategies, Networking, Legal Aid Online, Software Analysis, Litigation Technology, Client Reporting, Application Design, Communications Technology, Web Design, Electronic Communication and Content Drafting.

News, 5th June 2007: CS Group acquires Mountain
Computer Software Group (CS Group) have acquired Mountain Software. Mountain software is a key supplier to small and medium sized firms of solicitors as well as to barristers chambers (with 90% of the barristers' market) and also coroners. Existing users of Mountain software will apparently not notice any difference in support in the shorter and medium term.
Mountain is featured in the Law Society's Software Solutions Guide 2007
Mountain Software have been in business since 1979 and now supply software solutions to in excess of 500 practices throughout England, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. They are the only software house to have been accredited every year by the Law Society in its Software Solutions Guide. Their solutions include a range of modular software to cover every aspect of legal work including Practice Management System, Accounts, Time Recording, Criminal Billing modules, Civil Legal Aid Module, Wills, Deeds, Payroll, Personnel Records, Risk Management, Case Management including Conveyancing, Re-Mortgage, Probate, Family, Personal Injury, Licensing as well as a range of internet based solutions. Launched this year has been a new Anti Money Laundering module to enable practices to deal with the latest raft of legislation. Included within the software are diary systems as well as document management functionality. Mountain also offer a range of services including computer hardware, installation, infrastructure, maintenance, cabling, training, telephony and digital dictation. Mountain are a unique software house as they also supply 320 barristers chambers (through its subsidiaries Meridian Law and Applied Computer Expertise ACE) and also 100 Coroners jurisdictions in England and Wales. Mountain work with two distributors; in the north JMC.it and in the south Professional Computer Group. They are currently re-writing all of their software into Microsoft .net. This is scheduled to be launched in autumn 2004. Current products are in Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

MSS has changed its name to AlphaLaw (which is the name of the key software provided).

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Member of the Legal Software Suppliers Assocation
Norwel Computer Services Ltd is one of the longest established legal system having been established in 1972. Throughout the years Norwel has provided high quality systems to the medium to large firms with clients based throughout the UK. In recent years Norwel have extended their client base to include Local Authorities and City Councils. With around 60 user Firms and 30 support/development staff Norwel provides an unprecedented user/support staff ratio. Considerable investment in recent years has resulted in the development of a Windows based system throughout, although the option to process Accounting information in a 'character based' format remains. Norwel Desktop Online (with security included) provides users with the ability to give internet access to their Fee Earners and Clients. The application can be included on the clients web page adopting their own branding.

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Objective Associates Ltd are a privately owned software development firm founded in 2002 and based in Stirling. They offer bespoke software development services to the Banking, Legal and Business sectors throughout the UK. Their expertise ranges from robust embedded software applications to server based transaction processing systems. Typical work for solicitors firms includes: .NET programming, online web-based systems, bespoke business process systems and case management enhancements.

Featured in the Law Society's Software Solutions Guide 2007
Member of the Legal Software Suppliers Assocation
Opsis has been taken over by Iris Legal.
OPSIS Practice Management Solutions Ltd have been developing legal software solutions for over 28 years. Well established in the Legal IT market place, OPSIS have over 800 firms currently using their systems throughout the UK and Ireland. They have a product for every type of law firm – from multi-national practices with hundreds of staff, high street firms who may want a system for just a single department, to new start-up firms and sole practitioners.