Full In-House Ongoing Development & Bespoke Development

There are numerous examples of our bespoke development work; changes and additions that often become a standard part of the suite of Lawman programs as the product develops and new versions are released.

Modification examples include: We modified Lawman so that all Clients and Matters at inception automatically have appropriate case and risk/quality management workflows attached.

We added in useful features such as streaming print runs for automatic cheques at a practice’s local offices.

We enhanced our Document Creation Wizard so that the user can now select multiple contacts; this will then produce one document for each contact. For emails it will create one email addressed to all contacts.

Our Marketing database, part of Fee Earner Workstation, has been adjusted to provide a ‘marketing opt out’ flag. This means that a user can determine whether or not a contact is to be included in mailing lists.

Any report, which could already be automatically exported to spreadsheets, such as Excel, can now be directly emailed out.

Ease of data extraction using our SQL platform: Many users have their own preferred software tools to extract data from their information systems; this is very easy if the practice is using a system designed around SqlServer.

A Chief Executive of one of our larger practices wanted a custom report detailing time written off over the last 12 months using a third party software tool that he had used for many years and felt comfortable using. We simply emailed the SQL query for him to plug in to his own software, and the job was done. Lawman could equally, of course, have generated the same report out of the box.

We customised the Conflict of Interest search to enhance our pre-existing in-house procedures, to specify whether search string is a complete word or part of a word. Full text searches are simplified via sqlServer.

Most solutions are straightforward because of the Lawman design and database. It is not so easy with systems that use less standard databases or were not designed from the ground up ‘ab initio’ for SqlServer.

All CLS changes are updated in Lawman as they are notified to us. LAWMAN is thereby fully up to date with legal aid requirements.