At DPS Software we have been providing legal management software to law firms the length and breadth of the UK for over 35 years. Our company is the only legal technology supplier in the UK to be ISO 27001:2013 & GDPR accredited at a company level, and we serve over 700 law firms with over 18,000 users. We are also the largest legal cloud supplier in the UK.

Our case management systems cover conveyancing and remortgage, family and childcare, personal injury, crime and billing, will drafting, and probate and estate accounts. All of our case management systems can be customised to meet your individual requirements, and we have also adapted them so that they meet the needs of new ABSs that operate in a different way from traditional law firms.

The systems can be supplied with ready to go templates for any area, such as employment law or immigration, or we can load your own precedents, workflows, and forms, providing you with a bespoke system. The workflows can also be set up with user-defined rules allowing access to some users while preventing certain users from doing certain tasks without supervision. The workflows are flexible enough to allow chosen users to move from one stage to another, while another less experienced user may need authority.

At DPS Software, our matter management software is used by over 700 legal practices nationally and has over 18,000 individual users. This is the result of over 30 years of refining systems for the legal industry and incorporates everything we have developed over that period of time. The result is a system that covers every aspect of a law practice, and in some instances contains more than an individual practice might need.

For this reason, DPS Software’s system is supplied in modules so that any practice can subscribe to the modules that it needs and simply not use the ones that it does not require. Everything is available in the cloud but can also be used on your in-house servers if required. Indeed, some of our clients undertake some of their activities, such as banking for instance, on their own server and use our cloud hosted servers for other aspects of their practice.

More and more legal firms in the UK are switching over to cloud-based law firm management software because of the number of benefits it offers. However, having said that the figure is still less than 50%, and one wonders why.

The fact is that law firms hold a lot of sensitive data on their clients, and this makes them a target for hackers who would like to gain access to it and hold the firm to ransom. However, although there have been some breaches of security on cloud-based systems, these have been mainly due to human error rather than faults in the cloud. In fact, locally stored data is probably more likely to get hacked than cloud-based data because the software suppliers by definition have to maintain the very highest levels of security at all times, otherwise they would go out of business in very short order.

If you are considering upgrading your law practice to a cloud-based solution you will be joining an ever-increasing number of other practices who are going down the same road. It would be fair to say that the best law practice management software is in the cloud now, rather than on a local server.

Just to begin with, one very big advantage of using cloud-based legal management software is that it totally does away with the need for your own hardware, an IT expert to  run it, the expense of ongoing maintenance, the need for regular upgrades, and the chances of your server going down at the most awkward moment (all servers seem to know by default what the most critical moment is). Furthermore, you don't need one software for time management, another for matter management, and yet another for billing and accounts. The best law practice management software in the cloud covers all these areas and more.

At DPS Software, our matter management software is used by over 700 legal practices nationally and has over 18,000 individual users. This is the result of over 30 years of refining systems for the legal industry and incorporates everything we have developed over that period of time. The result is a system that covers every aspect of a law practice, and in some instances contains more than an individual practice might need.

For this reason, DPS Software’s system is supplied in modules so that any practice can subscribe to the modules that it needs and simply not use the ones that it does not require. Everything is available in the cloud but can also be used on your in-house servers if required. Indeed, some of our clients undertake some of their activities, such as banking for instance, on their own server and use our cloud hosted servers for other aspects of their practice.

DPS Software produces the best legal software bar none. Yes, there are other companies that offer software solutions for the legal profession, but DPS Software has over 30 years of experience in the legal technology sector and serves over 700 firms nationally with over 18,000 individual users. DPS Cloud is the largest legal cloud supplier in the UK and is the first and only legal software supplier to provide an integrated hosted IT solution under the same roof. Whichever way you want to go, DPS Software has you covered.

We are also the only legal technology supplier in the UK to be ISO 27001:2013 & GDPR accredited at a company level. Our software solutions have been built from the ground up and are designed so that the user can pick and choose which modules are required and leave out those which are not. So for example, if you are a practice which undertakes personal injury claims and not conveyancing, you simply do not need the conveyancing module so you leave it out.

Many legal practices, particularly the smaller ones, shy away from using legal matter management software because they have some flawed beliefs about it. Not the least of these is that there may be a fear of using new technology, especially in a practice where the partners are, shall we say, heading towards retirement. The old “We’ve always done it this way” thing. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Added to that are concerns about security.

The software also allows access to a matter for anyone who has the authority to use it while at the same time preventing anyone else from access. Everything about the matter is all in one place so that users can see what is going on. It also allows you to see who has had access, when they did, and what – if anything – they added or changed. Because everything about a matter is centralised it means that you still have access to everything even if a critical staff member is away.

Every law firm wants to operate with maximum efficiency and spend as much time as possible working on billable hours, not on back office work such as drafting bills. This is essentially the case for small firms who don't have enough work to employ an accounts department, and therefore it falls to fee earners to do it themselves. Yet it has to be done, and the sooner it is done, the faster the turn-around time of cash coming through the door. Legal billing software for small firms can make all the difference.

Back in the day, lawyers had no choice other than to prepare their own bills, but it is a time-consuming and tedious business. Now legal billing software for small firms has made life so much easier because it can be done by a computer instead.

DPS Software produces the best legal software bar none. Yes, there are other companies that offer software solutions for the legal profession, but DPS Software has over 30 years of experience in the legal technology sector and serves over 700 firms nationally with over 18,000 individual users. DPS Cloud is the largest legal cloud supplier in the UK and is the first and only legal software supplier to provide an integrated hosted IT solution under the same roof. Whichever way you want to go, DPS Software has you covered.

Of course, all practices require billing software, and the DPS legal billing software works from the time record. The fee earner records time which is then automatically recorded to the correct claim form and this automatically posts bills to the accounts. Then the receipts module automatically receipts them.

DPS Software produces software for law firms of all sizes and specialities. Whatever your area of practice, our software has you covered. We have been producing legal practice management software for over thirty years now and we are the largest legal software supplier in the UK with over 700 firms and more than 18,000 individual users. Our practice management solutions cover case management software, legal billing software, digital dictation, client portal solutions, and time recording software.

When it comes to billing, all law firms bill differently, and some legal accounting software will allow you to customise your billing procedures in accordance with the way that you prefer to work. While some firms leave it to the accounts department to carry out the billing, others prefer fee earners to bill their own work. If you are considering legal accounting software, you need to ensure that you choose one that will provide you with the flexibility that you need.

Some legal accounting software can be configured so that you can trigger billing manually or can be set to bill at predetermined limits. So, for example, you could set it to trigger billing when work in progress reaches a specific limit. Equally, bills could be triggered according to disbursement levels or lockup/unpaid invoice totals.

Today, more than ever, the profitability of a law firm needs to have a tight rein in order to ensure that fees do not go unaccounted for and are allocated to the correct case at the right time. This is why legal accounts software is one of the most important systems that any law firm should use. It provides a window into any firm’s financial status and in addition to performing basic accounting tasks enables you to assess the performance of individual fee earners and your firm overall.

There are many legal accounts software out in the world from which to choose, and you need to get it right because it will have an impact on the performance of your accounts department.

DPS Software has been providing software for legal case management in the UK for more than 30 years and is without doubt the leader in the field. More than 700 UK legal practices use our software and there are in excess of 18,000 individual users. We are now also the largest legal cloud supplier in the UK and can assist you in ways that you may never have thought of.

We can bridge the gap between the capacity of your IT department and the ever-increasing need for high performance technology for your business. You no longer need to worry about your server going down in the middle of the day and having your IT people try and resolve the problem.

When you are running a solo or small law practice, finding the right law practice management software for your firm can seem a challenging task. After all, you are busy practising law, looking after your clients, and earning fees. Finding the time to investigate software doesn’t seem to fit into your day.

However, the fact is that finding the right law practice management software for your firm will free up a lot of time so that you can do what you do best, and that is representing your clients’ interests and earning fees.

Law firm case management software has many benefits, not the least of which is that almost every such software out there is accessible in the cloud. What this means is that you can access your case from anywhere at any time. Don’t feel like commuting into the office today? Simple. Just work from home. Sitting in court waiting for your case to be called? Log in and work from your tablet or mobile phone. You can access everything to do with the case, you can enter time, track billing, and carry out dictation from anywhere with an internet connection. It means that you simply enter your billable hours and they will automatically be linked to the case, so you never lose track of them.

So, you’ve got a document you need signed by two separate parties. These parties could be opposite sides of the country or even the world!

What do you do?

Do you send it in the post to one party, wait for them to sign it and return it to you to send on to the other, where you then have to wait for them to sign and return it again, hoping that it doesn’t get lost somewhere along the way? Frankly, that sounds like a ridiculous, antiquated way of doing business.

DPS Software has been providing our legal case management system to UK law firms for over 30 years. Today we serve over 700 law firms and more than 18,000 individual users with software covering every area of practice.

The case management systems cover conveyancing, crime, personal injury, family, and wills and probate. These are backed up by a fully integrated accounting package and digital dictation systems. Today, DPS Software is the largest legal cloud in the UK and is the only legal practice software provider to offer an integrated managed IT solution under the same roof.