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A disbursement or not a disbursement – that is the question…
Monday, 30 April 2018You may have heard recently about the case of Brabners LLP v HMRC where the tribunal judge held that electronic property search fees could not be labelled disbursements for VAT purposes, leaving Brabners with a hefty £68,000 VAT bill and law firm accounting departments across the country with sweaty palms.
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Eclipse announces new functionality to cater for the Precedent S Electronic Bill of Costs
Monday, 23 April 2018Eclipse 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.
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Saving the criminal defence lawyer from extinction
Wednesday, 18 April 2018Life is hard as a legal aid lawyer. Government cuts and a lack of funding has seen many leave the profession to the point where it is now thought that criminal defence lawyers could become extinct in England and Wales.
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Are you ready for making tax digital?
Thursday, 12 April 2018In July 2017 the UK government announced that Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT will come into effect from April 2019. This means businesses who meet the VAT threshold will have to keep their records digitally and provide their VAT return through MTD compatible software.
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Just another law firm?
Wednesday, 4 April 2018Law Firms are all just the same nowadays aren’t they? All offering the same service with the same standards. Nothing really distinguishes them from one another. But not you. No, you’re different. Special, even. Your firm is unique.
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Time is running out for you to enter our competition
Wednesday, 28 March 2018Time is running out for you to claim your chance to win a Spitfire Experience Day courtesy of DPS Software. The competition celebrates the launch of our brand-new web-based practice management software, DPS Spitfire and gives you the chance to fly alongside the real thing.
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Get ready for GDPR with DPS
Monday, 26 March 2018With the implementation of GDPR nearly upon us, if you haven’t already done so, then now is the time to take action. In this webinar, you will have the chance to discover what changes we have made to our software to comply with the new regulations.
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How effective case management can aid your transition to paper-lite
Friday, 9 March 2018For the best part of a decade now you’ve been bombarded with information about how you need to go paperless. The reality though is that no office, particularly a law firm can operate completely without paper. That’s why an effective case management system can help you achieve the much more realistic ‘Paper-Lite’.
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Could Remote working be the way forward for law firms?
Thursday, 1 March 2018So the Beast from the East has struck and is currently menacing its way across the UK, causing havoc on the roads and railways, closing schools and preventing people from going to work.
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MJV & Co effortlessly increases efficiency with Eclipse’s Compact practice management system
Tuesday, 27 February 2018Established family-run law firm, MJV & Co, is implementing the new Compact solution from Eclipse Legal Systems, the UK’s leading legal software provider.
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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