By Legal Futures Associate Hoowla
Founded in 1971, Barnes and Partners has over forty years of experience. The firm has grown into one of North London’s leading solicitor firms, with a network of four local branches, including their distinguished head office in Enfield.
The large team of fully qualified and highly trained solicitors at Barnes and Partners covers nearly all aspects of law, providing specialist legal services for private and commercial clients. This expertise allows them to deliver genuinely knowledgeable and exceptional service. Barnes and Partners have a loyal client base that regularly returns, viewing them as their family solicitor.
In order to continue their growth and provide excellent client service, the Barnes and Partners team needed to adopt a more intuitive system that would allow their departments to collaborate. This required the team to search for a modern software solution that would involve a case management and legal accounts migration from Proclaim. Their chosen solution was Hoowla case management software, which satisfied their legal accounts needs and much more.
Barnes and Partners took a proactive approach by appointing a software champion to work with Hoowla during their switch. This champion, Brad Taylor, dedicated time and resources to work closely with the Hoowla team, ensuring the system was configured to their needs. At Hoowla, we’ve always been committed to offering a scalable, customisable solution to firms like Barnes and Partners without costly developers. With our easy-to-configure system, post-migration adjustments can be made internally, empowering firms or team members like Brad to tailor the technology to their requirements.
While Barnes and Partners is a multi-discipline firm that offers various legal services, their conveyancing team is their largest department. They now use Hoowla to support the entire transaction lifecycle by automating routine tasks, quickly generating quotes, and auto-populating documents such as Law Society forms. In addition, the broader Barnes and Partners team can now benefit from the capability to draft and customise their letters within Hoowla case management and efficiently organise their workflows by department and case subject, thus improving their already excellent client service.
As Barnes and Partners settles into their new tech, they will have full access to the Hoowla case management software. This includes an integrated email system, comprehensive task management, and team calendar features. In addition, they’ll benefit from advanced time and expense tracking and full legal accounting capabilities, such as setting case spend limits, managing client and office accounts, generating invoices, and performing account reconciliation. Additionally, Barnes and Partners can create custom reports to aid decision-making and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. This comprehensive suite of tools will empower them to optimise their operations.
Hoowla Managing Director Adam Curtis says, “Having another full-service law firm like Barnes and Partners join the system is amazing. I am really looking forward to working closely with their team to further tailor Hoowla case management to their requirements to meet their business goals.”
Similar to our dedication to offering easy-to-customise software, we regularly update our platform free of charge. Our dedicated customer support also means that Barnes and Partners can rely on ongoing improvements, training, and assistance as needed.
To experience Hoowla’s full capabilities, we invite you to contact us for a personalised case management software demo with Adam Curtis, who will guide you through our platform and demonstrate how it can transform your legal practice. Adam can answer any questions and show you how our tools can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
