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The impending changes to the legal aid system are well documented and the effect on legal aid practices is shrouded in uncertainty. It is clear that changes are afoot and only the “fittest” will survive.
Our files, reports & accounts systems have a wealth of features and benefits designed specifically to help practitioners with legal aid.
Legal Aid features:
- Instant & accurate time recording at legal aid rates
- Simple recording of Work In Progress at the click of a button
- Mandatory recording of time whenever a letter, document or attendance is generated
- Advance notification prior to reaching legal aid costs limit on a file
- Generate CMSF/CMRF & CDS6 at the click of a button
- Automatic integration with LSC-Online
- Flexible searches against legal aid work
- Immediate searches for financial data per fee earner, office & work type
- Additional file details for all legal aid work
- Separate allocation of legal aid WIP, counsels fees, other disbursements & VAT per legal aid category
- Umpteen risk management & supervision features
- Record infinite key dates on each file, with timely automatic advance warnings
- Timely risk assessments upon inception, throughout and upon closing the file
- Carry out & monitor meaningful file reviews on any file
- Separate ledgers for CLS & CDS contract payments
- Automatic allocation to the appropriate client ledgers
- Automatic & accurate treatment of VAT on each legal aid contract payment
Legal Aid benefits:
- Carry out legal aid work efficiently
- View up-to-date & accurate breakdown of legal aid work in one location on each file
- Capture all the legal aid work carried out on a file
- Ensure you claim for all work carried out
- Avoid the possibility of exceeding a legal aid costs limit & doing work for nothing
- Equally beneficial for CLS & CDS contract work.
- Includes unique criteria for Immigration & Mental Health work
- Take advantage of the LSC’s incentives for electronic submissions
- Reduce time spent on non-chargeable administrative work to the absolute minimum
- Retrieve effortlessly the data that you require to assess your legal aid work objectively
- Comply with the LSC contract specification as you work
- Say goodbye to those eleventh-hour panics prior to a compliance audit
Our software will enable you to become more efficient, profitable and equipped to meet all future challenges head-on. Ask us to show you how our software will pay for itself, even at the lowest legal aid rates !
Click here for your no-obligation quotation or evaluation CD-Rom.
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