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Maxwell Hodge Solicitors is upgrading its case management capabilities by adopting SOS Connect.

Following an intensive selection process, Eclipse’s Proclaim was chosen as the firm’s core Practice Management and Case Management solution.

QualitySolicitors Clapham & Collinge has signed a multi-year deal with Peppermint Technology for the award-winning Legal Service Platform legal software. The Peppermint Platform will support the firm’s 50 staff at offices in Norwich and Sheringham providing them with applications for practice management, legal accounts, case management, billing and time recording, CRM and marketing, workflow and business process management, reporting and business intelligence, risk management, legal online services and document management.

Following a sustained period of growth and expansion, law firm Weightmans has announced plans to significantly increase the size of its marketing team.

DC Law, part of heavyweight property services group ‘Move with Us’, is implementing Eclipse’s Proclaim Practice Management Software solution. DC Law provides a full range of conveyancing services for an expanding, nationwide clientbase. The firm was among the first tranche of organisations to be licensed as an Alternative Business Structure, back in 2012.

An increasing number of law firms will be forced into selling their books of personal injury (PI) work over the next 12 months in order to meet working capital requirements and secure their financial future – says a leading insolvency and partnership specialist.

A new resource proven to help law firms better collaborate with their clients and win new business has been launched by Manchester’s full service digital agency, mmadigital.

LexisNexis® Enterprise Solutions (www.lexisnexis-es.co.uk), a leading provider of content and technology solutions, today announced a formal partnership with Zylpha, a specialist developer of legal and secure document bundling solutions that integrate with and are complementary to Lexis® Visualfiles®, the U.K.’s leading rapid development legal and case management system.

What would you do if you found out that a member of your staff had committed what in a reasonable person’s opinion, amounted to serious/gross misconduct? Would you look to get rid of them as quickly, cheaply and quietly as possible by means of a Settlement Agreement (replaced Compromise Agreements on 29 July 2013), or would you pursue matters through the firm’s disciplinary process and take any knocks that may come as a consequence?

Since the opening of PRC’s legal market to foreign law firms in 1992, many have established a presence in China’s coastal cities. There are now about 200 foreign law firms with registered offices in mostly Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong (Regulated by a separate authority, the Hong Kong Law Society). Setting up offices in these cities has its own advantages, being China’s tier-one cities with well developed infrastructure and FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) growth almost every year, but the markets are moving quickly towards saturation. With China’s 12th Five-Year Plan in 2011 shifting its economic focus from coastal to inner cities, such as Shenzhen, Tianjin, Chongqing, Chengdu, Dalian, Wuhan and Qingdao, all having inhabitants of at least one million. Foreign Investors will be drawn into inner China for lower factor cost and new market opportunities, thus generating great demands for the legal sector. But with most international law firms having their major area of operation limited in coastal China, theses demands are not being met.