Legal Practice Management Software

Legal Practice Management Software For Law Firms

A Fully Integrated Solution – With Many Time-saving Features

LAWFUSION Legal Practice Management Software provides a number of robust and reliable software modules covering every area of a legal practice. Built around a powerful, central database the software has been designed to streamline your processes, capture all your bill-able time and enable fee earners to manage larger case loads more profitably. Fully compliant with the Solicitors’ Accounts Rules, LAWFUSION reduces risk and provides sound business information. Its Legal Accounts Software package is popular with cashiers and fee earners alike, providing everything a law firm needs to run its financials. There is a large and growing library of proven case management workflow charts as well as a ‘blank-sheet’ workflow template for Practices that wish to develop their own. LAWFUSION includes sophisticated time recording, CRM & Marketing software and extensive legal aid functionality too. The system is fully integrated in the truest sense of the word, and is delivered and supported by one specialist legal software team.

Select Legal Systems pride themselves in staying ahead of the game supporting law firms with functionality and software enhancements that enable firms to comply with new and evolving legal requirements in this dymanic marketplace. For instance, new functionality for ‘Making Tax Digital’ was ready well ahead of the 1-4-19 HMRC deadline enabling law firms to calculate and submit their VAT returns straight to HMRC, from LAWFUSION. They added a GDPR Module to help law firms comply with the new, important data protection legislation in 2019. Team LAWFUSION constantly work with the LAA to ensure the software provides everything a legal aid firm could possibly need.

Below is a list of LAWFUSION’s key Practice Management modules.

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Key Modules

Legal Accounts

Fully compliant with SARs, LAWFUSION Legal Accounts software is highly intuitive and offers many efficiency-enhancing, time-saving features, all of which come as standard from day one, providing an opportunity for law firms to grow with the system. Read More >

LAWFUSION is also fully ‘Making-Tax-Digital-Ready’ for digital VAT submissions – please call Team LAWFUSION now if you’re looking for new software from an HMRC recognised Making Tax Digital VAT Software Supplier with your VAT period end dates to discuss data conversion lead times. Read More >

We have recently published an article ‘What Law Firms Need To Know About Making Tax Digital‘.

Legal Case Management Software

Highly intuitive and flexible – LAWFUSION legal case management software is software your fee earners will actually want to use. It is designed to capture all of your bill-able time, enable you to increase your case load but reduce your work load. Read More >

Workflow is a key element of LAWFUSION case management and there is a large library of ready-made, proven workflow charts available for you to use as is or tweak to suite your own preferred working practices. Alternatively, you can use the highly intuitive workflow tool to create your own charts from scratch. Read More>

Legal Time Recording Software

The system designers at Select Legal realise recording time can be an arduous task and one that doesn’t come naturally to many fee earners. With LAWFUSION time recording becomes second nature and much less of a chore.

Legal Document Management Software

Document management is a key administrative task for every law firm. LAWFUSION offers a powerful suite of tools enabling firms to manage all legal document types.

Practice Diary & Task Planner

Designed for legal teams at law firms, the LAWFUSION centralised diary and task planner offers auto-sync with Outlook. Every case file and every user of the system has their own diary and task planner. Add an appointment or task just once and LAWFUSION will reflect it against the appropriate individual and case file.

Specialist Billing Modules

With LAWFUSION there is a selection of specialist billing modules available. For a demonstration of any aspect of LAWFUSION billing please call 01482 567601 or use the LAWFUSION book-a-demo form here.

– Fee Earner Draft Billing
– Billing for Family work
– Billing for Immigration work
– Billing for Mental Health work
– Legal Aid Billing
– Auto-Billing

Management Reporting

Of course, the LAWFUSION Report Writer can be pointed at any part of the LAWFUSION system for in depth interrogation. Your reports can be created and saved in a reports library for further re-runs whenever required. Reports can be set to auto-run at set times and distributed to named users without any manual intervention.

LAWFUSION Dashboards

Having worked very closely with a number of law firms, through focus groups, the LAWFUSION development team has created a series of Dashboards, which are currently being piloted. The dashboards are customisable ‘business intelligence’ screens that pull live data from key areas of LAWFUSION presenting them to the user in an analytics-style display, to aid business decision-making. There are different dashboards available depending on your role in the Practice. If you would like to see a demonstration please call LAWFUSION Sales on 01482 567601.

CRM & Marketing Software

When it comes to managing your client data, logging new enquiries and driving / tracking client and prospect communication law firms need reliable CRM (client relationship management) software. This module sits at the heart of the system providing law firms with a secure depository where they can hold, retrieve and analyse data for client care and marketing purposes.

Litigation Costs Management Software

The LAWFUSION Costs Management Module is designed to save fee earners precious time and makes it easy to keep a tight control of litigation costs. LAWFUSION users are able to customise litigation costing templates on a case-by-case basis and allocate time budgets against the ‘Cost Stages’. Users are given traffic light style warnings when booking entries and allocating them against costs if they are getting near or going to exceed a limit allocated.

Users are able to auto-produce precedent H, & S, use costing templates with allocation against ‘cost stages’, and use litigation codes (born out of the original J-Codes theory) for litigation ‘tasks’ and ‘activities’.

GDPR Manager Software Module

The LAWFUSION GDPR Manager Software Module has been developed to assist law firms with their compliance. It provides functionality to help with contact ID verification, subject access requests, and dealing with the different grounds for processing under GDPR such as ‘consent’ and opting out at contact level. It also includes a repository for storing all your GDPR policy and procedures documents, with version control functionality.

Everything Firms Need For Lexcel

The Lexcel standard, set by the Law Society, is the official quality mark for legal practice. It provides a benchmark by which law firms can develop and improve the way they manage their Practices. It covers: client care, risk management, people management, structure and strategy, financial management, information management and file and case management. Whilst no suite of software can achieve the Lexcel standard for you, the LAWFUSION suite of software coupled with the HR software on offer from The Access Group (Select’s parent company) provides powerful tools relating to every area of Lexcel.

For further insight, please check out our blog: SOFTWARE FOR LEXCEL: Joining the dots for law firms.

Integration

LAWFUSION is a fully integrated practice management system in the truest sense of the word. All the main LAWFUSION modules have been written as an integral part of the same suite of software. There is one specialist team taking care of your software, implementation and support needs.

Central Database

At the heart of LAWFUSION is a powerful, central database that stores each and every single piece of data for every case making all relevant information available, not only for document production pertaining to the case – but also for important decision-making as the case progresses.

Cloud Vs On-Premise Hosting

Whether to host your Practice Management System on the cloud or on your own on-premise servers is a unique decision for every law firm. Select Legal Systems offers both scenarios and has hundreds of satisfied clients in both camps.

Security Certified - ISO 27001

Whether you choose LAWFUSION for the cloud or the on-premise option you can rest assured that you’re in safe hands with Select Legal Systems. Select is ISO 270001 certified (for information security) at a company level as well as at cloud datacentre level. Read more>

Four Editions

LAWFUSION Direct
Select’s cloud offering is our most popular option and is available via a secure internet connection for a competitive monthly fee per user.

LAWFUSION Standard
Designed specifically for the larger or multi-branch firm.

LAWFUSION Small Firm
Providing all the rich functionality of the standard edition, Select offers a specially packaged version for the smaller but growing firm.

LAWFUSION Solo
A single user system, ideal for the sole practitioner start up.

Case Studies / Relevant News

Video Case Study

One of the UK’s largest providers of Legal Aid

“Cradle to grave – from setting up a case in the police station through to closing it after a Crown Court trial; LAWFUSION’s crime software gives you the capability to confidently manage the entire process – intuitive case management, a robust diary and, most importantly, prompt reporting to the LAA – all at the press of a button.”

Steve Gelsthorp, Partner, Cartwright King

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