associate news

Expanding personal injury (PI) law firm Smith Jones Solicitors is implementing Eclipse’s Proclaim practice management software system in a deal valued at over £100,000. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2013, Smith Jones focuses purely on PI claims, boasting accreditation from both the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and Motor Accident Solicitors Society.

IRIS Legal, the UK’s leading provider of legal software, has launched a new user group to provide a knowledge sharing forum for its customers and to collaborate with them on existing services and new product development.

Over the past year Tikit has witnessed a growing demand for its managed services and related outsourcing activities. Professional services firms seeking to implement industry leading best practice and gain the benefits from outsourcing all, or part, of their IT services have increasingly turned to Tikit for its capability and expertise.

International legal advisers Anaford AG has implemented Peppermint legal software to help provide high worth private clients with an elite level of highly personalised services. From offices in Switzerland Anaford serves the needs of international private clients, offering tailor-made tax and wealth planning strategies and structures.

LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, has announced the availability of Lexis InterAction Mobility, a mobile CRM tool and the latest addition to CRM solution suite, Lexis InterAction.

Costs budgeting – seen as the lynchpin of the Jackson reforms – is due to come into effect for all cases issued from April this year. To assist and help firms to prepare for the budgeting process and to make their budgets as accurate as possible, Litigation Costs Services is introducing a fixed-price budgeting/analysis service.

LexisNexis UK has announced that Katy Fixter has joined LexisNexis as head of LexisPSL built environment. Ms Fixter has more than 10 years’ experience in property practice. A former Berwin Leighton Paisner lawyer, where she trained and then qualified in 2003, she has covered all aspects of property practice and specialises in commercial real estate.

LexisNexis has announced two additions to its Cordery Compliance Service: Cordery Consulting Services and Compliance Healthcheck. The additions are set against a backdrop of increased regulation in the legal services delivery, including new outcomes-focused regulation and requirements for appointed COLPs… Read More

From today, 9th of January 2013, all sales or letting advertisements in the commercial media will now be required to show the EPC rating of the property being advertised. The full A-G energy performance graph is not necessary unless there is available space in the advertisement to accommodate it. There is also no longer a requirement to attach the front page of the certificate to any related written material.

First Title Insurance plc has received the endorsement of the Law Society for the second time in a row. The prestigious attribution follows a rigorous process of assessment during which the Law Society examined the range and quality of various insurance firms’ legal indemnity products.