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Can Proclaim Assist in Preventing Money Laundering?
Money laundering within the legal profession has faced significant legal press exposure in recent months. Legal Practice Support’s Proclaim Development team has therefore created a process to ensure a strong anti-money laundering process can be implemented for all...
Proclaim Development – Management Information (MI) Reports
The Proclaim Development team at Legal Practice Support (LPS) is often tasked with providing MI (Management Information) reports to the managerial users of Proclaim. On What can MI Reporting be Effective? Owing to the vast amount of data stored within any Proclaim...
Proclaim Development Case Study – Automating Fixed Costs
The Proclaim Development team of Legal Practice Support (LPS) was tasked with automating the fixed costs process for a personal injury department, dealing in low value (below £25,000) claims in Road Traffic Accidents, Employer’s Liability and Occupier’s Liability...
The Top 5 Ways to Maximise the Profitability of your Modern Law Firm
How to Increase Law Firm Profitability Fixed costs have affected a lot of personal injury practices, and are likely to be introduced for all civil litigation claims up to £250,000 in the foreseeable future. With many law practices already shutting their doors, it is...
Why Choose Eclipse Proclaim When Going Paperless
Eclipse Proclaim has become the leading digital case management system for Solicitors in England and Wales. The desire for a paperless office solution has become increasingly appealing and sought after for many law firms in light of reduced profit margins and...
Top Five Proclaim Enhancements
Proclaim is a great bit of kit and can be used straight out of the box, especially if you have also purchased some of the additional workflow packages that Eclipse Legal provide. However, if you want to get the most out of the software and ensure that the expensive...
Proclaim Risk Management
At Legal Practice Support we have yet to meet a solicitor who enjoys regulatory compliance. It’s a monotonous job after all, nobody will thank you for getting in the way of practising law or slowing the speed in which a case might be concluded. The role is so often...
The Legal Sector and Automation
2018, it’s a year that very few if any Claimant PI firms throughout England and Wales are looking forward to. The small claims limit will be raised to £2,000 and £5,000 for whiplash specifically which is a de facto abolishment of the claim. However, let’s not forgot...
What is a ‘Good Reason’ to Set Aside a Default Cost Certificate?
The subject matter revolved around an RTA LVI claim in which the Claimant had given instructions to discontinue his claim, giving the Defendant an automatic entitlement to their costs pursuant to CPR 44.9(c). The Defendant in turn served a Bill of Costs that was...
Can You Recover Hourly Rates on Fixed Costs Cases?
I’m sure we are all aware by now of the outcome of Broadhurst v Tan and Taylor v Smith [2016] EWCA Civ 94 (23 February 2016) in which indemnity costs were awarded for the Claimant having beaten their own Part 36 Offer on assessment. As a consequence, the Claimant was...
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