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SOS Connect - case management and workflow
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Ramesys is a company which provides IT infrastructure support to many sectors of industry with branches across England and Wales. There is a strong user base of large and medium sized firms of solicitors ranging in size from 60 - 2500 staff. Their wide portfolio of solutions and services include:
  • Infrastructure Services
  • Managed Services
  • Mobility Solutions
  • Collaboration Solutions and
  • Email Archiving
    There is a turnover of around £65m and a staff of about 700.

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    Sanderson IT Systems Ltd (the part of that organisation which offered the legal systems) is now     Civica.

    Solicitors Case Management Systems (SC@MS), created by solicitors, provides a total integrated front & back office solution:

  • files- The case management system, which includes full document automation for unlimited letters & documents, automatic mail merge, incoming & outgoing email integration, core template letters & documents, integration with electronic forms, automatic & manual time recording, chronological list of work to do on a file, timely warnings of approaching limits, storage of and easy access to letters & documents, case history including a "click-of-a-button" browsing facility, large database including address book, history of instructions to expert witnesses and office/client ledgers on each file with separate paid & unpaid disbursements.
  • reports- The practice management system, which includes a range of searches against the practice's business & financial data, ability to compare results by fee earners, work types, offices/departments & funding types, data for any given date or range of dates, export facility to MS Excel, key dates & undertakings, full contacts databank, automatic generation of the Legal Services Commission (LSC)'s CMSF, CMRF & CDS6, a 3-stage credit control system & reminders to advise a client to update a will & confirm securities.
  • accounts- includes unlimited client & nominal ledgers, flexible user access or restriction, fast & easy posting and journal entries, anti-error safeguards, automatic client interest calculator, automatic allocation of the LSC's monthly payment, write-off reminders, anti-money laundering alerts, up-to-date management and profit & loss accounts with variances against budget, separate balance sheet, drill-down facility, office & client bank reconciliations, VAT Account & automatic calculation & storage of VAT Returns, automatic allocation of cash items and full archiving facility.
    There are numerous supervision & Risk Management features, which include many anti-money laundering features, and an optional electronic diary & internal messages system. A separate Work Type Design program enables practices to create and upload into the software an infinite number of customised workflows for any type of work. Practices do not need to have any particular I.T. skills or knowledge to develop their own workflows quickly & easily. Installation, comprehensive training and a pro-active approach to after-sales care are included with the software. There are also a variety of options for remote working. A free 30-day interactive evaluation of the software on CD-Rom is available upon request.

    f SDLT.co.uk is software from Courage & Co. which enables a firm to submit the SDLT form direct to Inland Revenue, eliminating rejections and being certified in 24 hours. It is efficient and easy to use with no postage required; there is a small charge for each successful transaction worked out on a 'Pay-as-you-go' basis. The software itself if free to download. See also ConveyProControl, conveyancing software from Courage & Co., which can integrate with this (but SDLT.co.uk can work independently from any other software).

    Featured in the Law Society's Software Solutions Guide 2008
    Member of the Legal Software Suppliers Assocation
    Select Legal Systems is one of the UK's leading legal software systems suppliers. Their LAWFUSION™ product is an integrated Legal Software, Practice Management and Case Management solution. It has been utilised in legal Practices since 1993, and in that time it has been continually developed to meet the needs of the ever increasing client base. LAWFUSION™ was rated in the 2008 Law Society Software Solutions Guide as 1st for overall customer satisfaction and was also rated in the 2007 Law Society Guide as The Best of the Best of Breed.

    Sellers Legal Services provides a complete litigation support IT solution including a dictation and document management system and a digital court recording system. "BriefCase" is the transcript analysis software which can store text from pre-prepared documents and a realtime stenography feed in the court or via the internet at a remote site. "Legal Eyes" is the document management system that can manage thousands of scanned images.

    SellersLink is now called ConveyanceLink - see description here..

    Solace Legal Systems is now part of the Opsis Group - see description here..

    Solcara is a leading supplier of knowledge and information management solutions for the legal market. Based in the UK, Solcara has worked with many of the UK's leading law firms in delivering solutions which improve the capture, classification, storage and sharing of knowledge regardless of its location or format. Solcara's core application for the legal market is known as Client Partner, which can search simultaneously across all internal data sources and external information sources such as LexisNexis, PLC, Justis, etc. By incorporating all existing systems and resources within a knowledge management environment, Solcara is able to build upon a firm's previous investment in technology and to maximise the value of the infrastructure and of the information itself. Solcara's legal sector clients include Ashurst, Harbottle & Lewis, Irwin Mitchell, Macfarlanes and William Fry.

  • News on SOS... April 2008
    Solicitors Own Software (SOS), a leading supplier of legal software to solicitors, has undergone a management buy-out (MBO) by the current executive team, following the planned retirement of founder Michael Platt. The management team includes directors Keith Denman, Elaine Galvin, Graham Colbourne, Stephen Parry and David McNamara, formerly sales and marketing director who now becomes managing director. Michael Platt said that he was very pleased to be able to leave SOS as an independent company, providing continuity of service and product development and able to provide the very best integrated practice management and case management software. Newly appointed managing director, David McNamara said that he thought that many law firms would be let down by the many takeovers and consolidations currently taking place as some legal software will inevitably be dropped and law firms will be forced in a direction that they don't necessarily want to take. "Our MBO removes any speculation that SOS clients might suffer a similar fate" he said.
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    Featured in the Law Society's Software Solutions Guide 2008
    Member of the Legal Software Suppliers Assocation
    Solicitors Own Software (SOS) is a well-established supplier, formed in 1987, with a large client-base of 400 mid-sized law firms. The company has invested heavily in respect of research and development over the past three years and has recently launched its all-new .net based software, SOS Connect. The launch of Connect has been dramatic, resulting in SOS’s latest trading year being its most successful ever. SOS Connect is a fully-integrated case management and accounting system aimed at progressive, mid-sized law firms who are keen to improve their profitability by implementing clear and effective business processes and workflow throughout the entire firm. SOS Connect’s unique features include its excellent integration with Microsoft Outlook which enables fee earners and staff to operate the entire system, including legal workflow, without ever leaving their Outlook screen. In addition, the Scripting module in SOS Connect means any legal workflow can be tailored and maintained much faster and simpler than conventional case management products. Being a .net system, SOS Connect can also be operated remotely or on the move via an Internet Connection, enabling fee earners and partners to access their cases anywhere. SOS is an Investor in People company, a member of the Legal Software Suppliers Association, and is also a Law Society endorsed 'Software Solution Provider'.

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