associate news

ARAG is pleased to announce a new partnership with specialist high net-worth (HNW) insurer Oak Underwriting to provide legal expenses and home emergency assistance insurance to its HNW portfolio.

Rubric has chosen Virtual Practices to support its ambition to stay at the forefront of change in the legal sector. The firm was founded by director James Howell this year as one of the new breed of dynamic, forward-thinking law firms launched in the wake of the Legal Services Act.

The UK’s largest independent legal software provider, Eclipse Legal Systems, is set to launch a dedicated COLP and COFA toolset. Eclipse’s new compliance toolset will be a fully integrated feature of the Proclaim case and practice management system.

This year’s conference, at the Belfry near Birmingham on 4-5 October, will once again aim to equip you with the ideas, tools and motivation to help you to realise the true value in your law firm within an ever changing external environment.

We will look at what is happening within the UK market place that will have an impact on law firms like yours and will also hear about how law firms in the US have responded to changes in their environment. Alongside this we will not ignore some of the practical factors that are impacting on you at the moment and will take some time during the programme to consider the impact of regulatory changes.

To drive growth in the fee protection insurance market, ARAG has entered into a partnership with Jim Hoyle, formerly of HLI Insurance Brokers (part of the CCV/Towergate Group). Jim was a chartered accountant before entering the insurance arena, so brings… Read More

Major Midlands-based practice Bhatia Best Solicitors is the latest legal firm to select a DPSCloud full-service hosted IT solution as their future IT platform. With offices in Nottingham, Derby and Mansfield, and close to 200 staff, Bhatia Best, which was… Read More

On the anniversary of Lord Halsbury’s birthday – he would have been 189 today – LexisNexis has renamed one of its smartphone apps as Halsbury’s Legal Terms. The app, formerly known as LexisNexis Legal Terms, provides LexisLibrary subscribers with on-the-go… Read More

In response to unprecedented demand, electronic conveyancing search service SearchFlow has decided to increase capacity at its autumn CPD seminar series.

QualitySolicitors Devonalds, a leading law firm in south Wales, has selected SOS Connect from Solicitors Own Software (SOS) to replace its existing case management system and provide seamless integration with its accounting system for more streamlined operations.

This year’s ILTA annual conference saw the launch of Tikit’s Carpe Diem TimeFinder version 1.1 Carpe Diem TimeFinder version 1, launched in early 2012, provided attorneys the ability to monitor, track, and convert their journal of electronic activities into time entries, thereby extending, and in some cases replacing, the time capture activities of a firm.