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Full-service firm AWG has implemented Redbrick’s full practice management solution firm-wide as well as its financial accounting and management solution, Redbrick business intelligence. First established more than 100 years ago in 1895, AWG has been providing high quality legal advice both locally and nationally ever since. Offering city expertise without city prices and a high level of expertise in its chosen fields, AWG has rapidly expanded its south-west based practice by employing numerous city-based consultants throughout the country.

A “revolutionary” online tool aimed at enabling solicitors to comply with the requirements of costs management has been launched by a well-known costs lawyer. Omnia – the brainchild of Sue Nash of High Wycombe-based Litigation Costs Services – is a web-based software solution for the production of costs budgets which also enables solicitors to produce their own bills of costs and costs schedules.

Oyez Professional Services, in association with the IAAITC, recently conducted a comprehensive Information Security survey targeted at law firms across England and Wales. The results, which have now been published, highlight a worrying trend amongst law firms who seem to prefer to ignore the risks that their current security programmes expose them to.

PSG, one of the market leading providers of searches and reports for conveyancers in England and Wales, is pleased to launch its new website: www.psgconnect.co.uk. The new site has been developed with the client in mind with the national part of the site portraying the corporate credentials and heritage of the company.

Legal professionals attending SearchFlow’s risk management and compliance seminars were unanimous in urging lenders to adopt a single rationalised panel validation system.

Leading legal software supplier Solicitors Own Software (SOS) has announced three new recruits as part of its managed growth strategy. The recruitment of Nick Anderson, Paul O’Mahoney and Laura Robinson strengthens SOS’s commitment to delivering client-focused software and services.

It has now been 12 months since the formal introduction of alternative business structures (ABSs) by the Legal Services Act 2007. Prior to the reform being introduced, speculation about the effects such radical changes would have was rife. In particular, those pessimistic about the changes lamented the undermining of the legal profession via the introduction of so-called ‘Tesco Law’, combined with the ringing of the death knell for the high street firm as we currently know it.

LexisNexis has launched the first ever Halsbury Legal Awards. These awards have been established to recognise and celebrate the value that people in law bring to society. The inaugural award ceremony will be held in 2013.

Legal expenses insurer ARAG has teamed up with a public relations firm specialising in crisis communications to offer interested customer groups media relations support as part of their policies.

Portsmouth practice Andrew & Andrew is implementing Eclipse’s Proclaim case management software solution.