Red Rose Law chooses Eclipse Compact for smooth case progression

Conveyancing specialist Red Rose Law is implementing the new Compact solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the sole Law Society Endorsed legal software provider.

Red Rose Law is an ambitious new firm providing specialist expertise in both private and commercial conveyancing and property law. The firm has quickly gained a proud reputation for excellent client-focused service in the Lancashire region.

As a new start-up Red Rose Law needed a scalable case management system that would enable the firm to manage caseloads efficiently and embrace larger volumes. After an in-depth review of case management offerings, the firm selected Compact, Eclipse’s new legal software solution designed specifically for small law firms and new start-ups. An accessible payment model to suit the financial demands of a new business was a key factor in the choice.

The Compact solution will provide a complete case management system for Conveyancing, enabling the team to hit the ground running and manage cases with a consistent approach. Taking the core functions of Eclipse’s Law Society Endorsed Proclaim Case Management system, Compact will enable Red Rose Law to benefit from fast and effortless document production, a high level of automation and smoother case progression.

Patrick Flaherty (pictured), Director of Red Rose Law, comments:

“Eclipse’s Compact solution ticked all the boxes for what a firm of our size needs - a simple pricing structure and inbuilt workflows with task management features that will enable us to easily manage increasing volumes whilst still providing an excellent service to clients.
The use of Compact will be key in delivering our price watch promise of providing the most cost effective and efficient service in Lancashire.”

Manders Law implements Eclipse’s Compact Practice Management System to enhance client care

New city based start-up Manders Law, a high net worth family law specialist is implementing the Compact Practice Management system from Eclipse, the Law Society’s sole Endorsed legal software provider.

Manders Law was established in 2018 by leading family law specialist Mary-Ann Wright. The firm intends to make legal services in family law more transparent and accessible to clients. Manders Law aims to be the city based family law firm of choice for high net worth individuals by enabling clients to have the most successful litigation outcome whilst ensuring profitability as a business.

In a competitive market the firm’s key to success will be deliver excellence every day in everything they do. As a new start-up, Manders Law needed a system that would allow the firm to get up and running quickly with accessible start-up costs. The firm is implementing the Compact Practice Management software solution from Eclipse, which has been designed specifically for the needs of small and new start-up organisations.

Compact will provide a secure central store for client documents, with the inbuilt workflows automating administrative processes and ensuring a consistent approach to services - enabling staff to focus on the core goal of delivering superb client care.

Mary-Ann Wright (pictured), Director at Manders Law comments:

“As a new start-up, it was crucial that we chose a solution that was ready-to-go from a trusted supplier with a proven track record of delivering solutions to progressive firms like us. Compact will enable us to get up and running quickly with the streamlining of document production freeing up more value-added time with clients, helping us to realise the goal of building a leading reputation for outstanding client care.”

The Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards 2018 – see the winners!

We’re delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards!

Taking place on Thursday 12th July, the prestigious awards ceremony was hosted by comedian Patrick Monahan, and saw hundreds of influential figures within the industry attend.

The full list of winners, as chosen by a panel of high profile judges, can be seen below – congratulations to all!

Conveyancing Firm of the Year – North of England
Winner – Birchall Blackburn Law
Highly Commended – Stephensons Solicitors LLP

​Conveyancing Firm of the Year – Midlands
Winner – MJP Conveyancing Ltd
Highly Commended – Moore & Tibbits Solicitors

Conveyancing Firm of the Year – South of England
Winner – The Partnership
Highly Commended – Thomas Legal Group

Conveyancing Firm of the Year – Wales
Winner – Newbold Solicitors
Highly Commended – Howells Legal Ltd t/a Howells Solicitors

​Search Provider of the Year
Winner – InfoTrack
Highly Commended – Searches UK

Innovation of the Year
Winner – inCase
Highly Commended – DevAssist Ltd

​Rising Star of the Year
Winner – Rosie Simms – Moore & Tibbits Solicitors
Highly Commended – Tim Hare – Countrywide Conveyancing Services

​Service Provider of the Year
Winner – inCase
Highly Commended – Perfect Portal

​Client Care Award
Winner – MJP Conveyancing Ltd
Highly Commended – The Partnership

​Best Use of Technology
Winner – My Home Move
Highly Commended – The Partnership

​Outstanding Commitment to Training
Winner – My Home Move
Highly Commended – PM Property Lawyers

​Property Team of the Year
Highly Commended – Newbold Solicitors
Winner – Stephensons Solicitors LLP

​Conveyancer of the Year
Winner – Jonathan Achampong – Wedlake Bell LLP
Highly Commended – Rachel Simmonds – Moore & Tibbits Solicitors

​National Conveyancing Firm of the Year
Winner – The Law Practice UK Ltd
Highly Commended – Howells Legal Ltd t/a Howells Solicitors

​Outstanding Achievement of the Year
Winner – Beth Rudolf

Lifetime Achievement
Winner – Eddie Goldsmith

The Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards 2018 – shortlist

We’re delighted to announce that the shortlist for this year’s Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards has been released!

Taking place on Thursday 12th July at The Rum Warehouse in Liverpool, the event promises to be one of the most prestigious for the conveyancing sector.

After facing a number of tough decisions to whittle down all of the high-calibre entries, the judges have created a final shortlist of firms and individuals, which can be seen below.

Congratulations to all!

Conveyancing Firm of the Year – North of England
Birchall Blackburn Law
Countrywide Conveyancing Services
Lester Campbell Solicitors
Napthens LLP
Stephensons Solicitors LLP

​Conveyancing Firm of the Year – Midlands
Brethertons LLP
Ellisons Solicitors
MJP Conveyancing Ltd
Moore & Tibbits Solicitors
PM Property Lawyers​

Conveyancing Firm of the Year – South of England
Brethertons LLP
Coffin Mew LLP
PCS Legal
The Partnership
Thomas Legal Group

Conveyancing Firm of the Year – Wales
Countrywide Conveyancing Services
Howells Legal Ltd t/a Howells Solicitors
Newbold Solicitors

​Search Provider of the Year
InfoTrack
OneSearch Direct
Searches UK
SearchFlow

Innovation of the Year
DevAssist Ltd
inCase
InfoTrack
Lawyer Checker
Perfect Portal

​Rising Star of the Year
Catherine Ann Booton – DF Legal LLP
Charlotte Still – PCS Legal
Richard Newton – Lester Campbell Solicitors
Rosie Simms – Moore & Tibbits Solicitors
Tim Hare – Countrywide Conveyancing Services

​Service Provider of the Year
DevAssist Ltd
Griffiths Allen-Stamp Duty Advisers
inCase
InfoTrack
Intuit QuickBooks (UK)
Perfect Portal

​Client Care Award
Emsleys Solicitors
Howells Legal Ltd t/a Howells Solicitors
MJP Conveyancing Ltd
Newbold Solicitors
Pinney Talfourd LLP
The Partnership

​Best Use of Technology
inCase
My Home Move
Perfect Portal
Simply Conveyancing Property Lawyers
The CS Partnership
The Partnership

​Outstanding Commitment to Training
Coffin Mew LLP
My Home Move
PCS Legal
PM Property Lawyers

​Property Team of the Year
Attwells Solicitors LLP
Clapham & Collinge LLP
Newbold Solicitors
PCS Legal
Pinney Talfourd LLP
Stephensons Solicitors LLP

​Conveyancer of the Year
Alana Northcott – Countrywide Conveyancing Services
Claire Wright – Countrywide Conveyancing Services
Jonathan Achampong – Wedlake Bell LLP
Rachel Simmonds – Moore & Tibbits Solicitors
Sidhra Ali – Lester Campbell Solicitors
Tom Janda – Countrywide Conveyancing Services

​National Conveyancing Firm of the Year
Birchall Blackburn Law
Brethertons LLP
Countrywide Conveyancing Services
Howells Legal Ltd t/a Howells Solicitors
Stephensons Solicitors LLP
The Law Practice UK Ltd

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PG Legal selects the Proclaim Practice Management system to enhance client care and support growth

Highly regarded commercial law specialist, PG Legal, has implemented the Law Society Endorsed Proclaim Practice Management Software solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the UK’s leading legal software provider.

Established in 2011 and specialising in commercial property transactions, PG Legal has grown to provide a range of legal services to businesses of all sizes and sectors in the North East and throughout the UK, including dispute resolution, debt recovery and employment law. Today the firm operates from its head office in Gateshead with further offices in Stockton and has a team of 24 committed to providing excellent client care.

Prior to implementing Proclaim, PG Legal had outgrown its incumbent software systems which no longer provided the functionality needed to cement the firm as the first choice for businesses looking for legal solutions. To strengthen its market position, PG Legal chose an easy to use Proclaim Practice Management solution bringing case and practice management together into one central, secure platform.

As part of the implementation of Proclaim, Eclipse conducted a data migration of both case and accounting data from the practice’s incumbent systems.

To establish a solid approach to managing prospective clients, the firm has implemented Proclaim’s New Business Enquiries toolset to streamline enquiry management and file opening procedures. The firm is also benefitting from Eclipse’s integrated Credit Control Centre tool which provides increased efficiencies through complete management and analysis of key payments information.

Jonathan Fletcher (pictured), Director at PG Legal comments:

“We see implementing Proclaim as a vital part of our future strategy to drive the practice forward whilst staying true to our core value of providing an excellent, comfortable and transparent customer experience. The inbuilt scalability and flexibility of Proclaim will prove invaluable as our operations and client base continue to expand.”

Eclipse announces new functionality to cater for the Precedent S Electronic Bill of Costs

Eclipse Legal Systems, the Law Society’s endorsed legal IT provider, has announced updated functionality in its Proclaim solution to enable firms to utilise the new Electronic Bill of Costs.

In April 2018 a new format was introduced for the billing of personal injury matters, mandated for completion via the new ‘Precedent S’ electronic bill. The intention is that electronic bills will provide greater transparency regarding the value of costs being claimed, be easier to compile, and less expensive to prepare by using automated calculations. It is also intended that costs incurred in a claim will be easier to understand (especially where there has been a costs budget agreed).

Eclipse’s Proclaim case and practice management solutions have been updated to enable the management of these changes to time recording, as well as providing users with the ability to produce the new Precedent S Electronic Bill from the history of the digital file. All data is arranged into the relevant mandated categories of phase, task and activity.

Tracy Blencowe (pictured), business solutions director at Eclipse, comments:

“Mandated changes to existing ways of working are always a challenge for practitioners, and we see our role as enabling them to adapt to change as smoothly and as easily as possible. Our new Precedent S solution is already rolled out to those clients of ours that have requested it, allowing for a minimum of disruption for them to transition to the new electronic bill. To make our solution as widely available as possible, we can even provide three different ways of implementing the enhancement in order to suit firms of all shapes, sizes, and complexity of caseload.”

The Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards 2018 – nominations open!

The Eclipse Proclaim Modern Law Conveyancing Awards are taking place on 12th July at The Rum Warehouse, Liverpool.

Eclipse is proud to be headline sponsor of the event, which celebrates excellence in client care, and will recognise those taking the lead in innovation; those who have achieved successes as teams or individuals; and those championing client care.

The winners will be chosen by an esteemed panel of judges, who have been carefully selected based upon their knowledge and experience within the industry.

Click here for a full list of the award categories, and to make your nominations before the deadline of Friday 27th April!