"The aim of the LawWare Accredited Business Partner programme is to develop and promote an enhanced and accredited level of knowledgeable and trusted organisation partners, which are committed to developing and supporting a significant presence within their local Law firms."

Accredited LawWare Business Partners have undergone special training in installing and configuring LawWare software within a variety of IT infrastructures. For example, this includes the procedures for installation, re-installation and moving of LawWare software and data – this means that Accredited Business Partners are very effective at upgrading clients with new Servers and PCs, are fully informed about the impact of all LawWare Editions and their technical requirements and most importantly – know what to do when handling a system crisis involving LawWare software.

A LawWare Business Partner cannot support LawWare software in the operational sense, i.e. how the software performs and answer queries related to actual use, firms will contact LawWare directly for this. All in all, firms using LawWare software and a LawWare Business Partner will obtain a higher level of service than they otherwise can. That said, LawWare remain happy to work with any individual firm’s preferred IT support organisation and will provide a good level of support to both the firm and its preferred support company.

The Accreditation programme is for those IT support organisations that want to leverage their service level provision up to the highest possible level and offer as much as they can to their clients.

IT support companies that have achieved Accredited Business Partner status include:-

BMC Solutions* are a dedicated IT Company offering a wide range of services including IT support, IT consultancy, hardware, software and networking solutions to SME's in and around the South of Scotland area. www.bordermarketingcompany.co.uk

Recognised LawWare business partner are partners with whom we work very closely with and have delevloped close strategic business relationships for delivering services for the benefit of our clients, in some cases via on line software integrations .

Recognised LawWare Business Partner status include:-

GB Group, the UK’s leading Identity Management organisation is working in partnership with LawWare to provide the legal sector with electronic identity verification (eIDV) solutions. The integration of GB’s URU™ solution, the UK’s most comprehensive national identity verification (eIDV) service, within LawWare's Enterprise Edition, helps clients reduce the cost of AML obligations.

URU transforms customer ID verification from a time consuming and expensive process into the complete paper-less office solution. 

Solicitors can perform identity verification, PEPs and sanctions checks all from within their existing practice management software, removing the need for duplicate data entry. www.gb.co.uk

 
Douglas Mill Consulting offers a network of associate consultants with various areas of specialist expertise and a unique perspective on issues facing the legal profession relevant to solicitors and other professionals.
 

Douglas Mill, spent 18 years in private practice and over 11 years as Secretary and Chief Executive of the Law Society of Scotland. Before taking up the post in 1997 he was the Deputy Director for the Centre for Professional Legal Studies at Strathclyde University and the leader of the Law Society Practice Advisory Service. He is the author/co-author of “Successful Practice Management”, “Successful law Firm Manager” and “Managing the Professional Partnership”. Alongside his Consultancy business, he has been appointed Director of Professional Legal Practice in the University of Glashow’s school of law. www.douglasmillconsulting.co.uk

 
Millar & Bryce Limited are the largest suppliers of Title information from Scotland’s dual Land Registry and Sasine system, supplying services to over 1000 firms of Lawyers, Accountants, Banks and other organisations. Established in 1875 Millar & Bryce is now part of global information solutions provider MDA.

To enable us to maintain and improve our products and services Millar & Bryce have made a sustained investment in Information Technology and continue to do so with the substantial backup of our parent company. Our in-house Information Technology team continues to refine and develop our systems to meet the ever changing and ever more sophisticated needs of the market. www.millar-bryce.com

The Cashroom LLP is Scotland’s leading outsourced legal bookkeeping company. The Cashroom understands that as a Partner, you just want to get on with practicing law and generating business. Our expert team of legal bookkeepers can help remotely manage your books.

In this digital age, it is ironic that excess paperwork is one of the biggest challenges affecting many law firms.  Scanning Technologies can help by allowing you to scan all incoming documentation directly into LawWare .

If you do not want to scan backlog material in-house, we can offer to take it away & complete the task using our bureau operation.  We have almost 200 scanning clients across a wide range of markets (approx 150 lawyers / financial service companies) ranging from PLC’s to the largest LLP’s, and smaller 1 or 2 partner firms.  Take a look at our website for more information.  www.scanningtechnologies.co.uk

Registers of Scotland is the Government department responsible for compiling and maintaining records relating to property and other legal documents. The two main registers, the Register of Sasines and the Land Register, contain records relating to ownership of land and property in Scotland.  The remaining registers deal with a variety of legal documentation, from personal debt and bankruptcy to commercial contracts, wills and separation agreements.

We have recently launched Automated Registration of Title to Land (ARTL). This is an innovative alternative to the current paper based system of Land Registration for Dealings with Whole, where registration is completed electronically via a secure internet connection. We are currently rolling out an updated update version of our on-line property searching service called Registers Direct which provides remote access to the registers using web-based technology.

Further information regarding Registers of Scotland can be found on our website, www.ros.gov.uk

OCD are obsessed with Service and passionate about IT.   Our goal is simply to provide the highest quality service to support our customers, which allows them to concentrate and work on their business to improve service and profit.

We are experts in IT systems, infrastructure and support for small to medium sized professional service firms and public sector organisations. Our continued investment in our team and training has led us to be recognised as one of Scotlands leading Microsoft Gold Partners, with recent Microsoft survey results scoring us 20% above other Microsoft Gold Partners for business IT Advice and Support service.

If we sound like a company you would like to do business with, then contact us on 0141 771 5069, kashcroft@ocd.co.uk or visit our website at www.ocd.co.uk

Awarded “Best Firm” at the Scottish Accountancy Awards in 2008 and 2009 are the largest firm in Scotland aside from the Big Four with 45 partners and over 470 people across 10 offices. 

 Our clients range from early stage start ups to some of Scotland's largest and most successful privately owned groups.  The Johnston Carmichael Outsourcing team work with firms to help the finance function deliver real value for their business.  We are delighted to be represented at the LawWare User Group conference, seeking to provide financial interpretation and analysis for legal firms. www.jcca.co.uk

 
CaseCheck ™ is a legal resource used by lawyers, law students, in-house lawyers, paralegals, claims handlers, barristers and advocates throughout the UK and the rest of the world.

Case Check is completely free and delivers informative case summaries via a powerful search engine that is kept fully updated on a daily basis. You can register to establish your own profile to access CaseCheck’s full functionality and receive weekly bulletins. For further details visit www.casecheck.co.uk

We offer our Customers a “hand holding” IT procurement advisory service dealing with the whole spectrum of IT procurement from a simple business start-up to full OJEU procurement for institutions. Based on our Customer’s business requirements, objectives, and strategies we introduce our Customers to our Partners or if necessary, external consultants, who can deliver IT solutions in the required areas.

 The value that we add is that contracts are concluded quicker; IT solutions are implemented on time and within budget and Customers’ expectations are met and frequently exceeded. For details visit www.m-i-t-s.com

Waverley Lane are specialists in providing the technology to help teams work together whether office-based, travelling, or telecommuting. We can help you prepare systems and working practices based on who needs which facilities to achieve appropriate productivity, and we will deliver the infrastructure and support your team to make sure it happens.

 We are pleased to have had clients working with us for all of our eleven years in business, during which we have grown to manage the technology for nearly 700 people located across Scotland, Europe, and the Middle East. We look forward to helping you build your practice on robust, resilient and reliable technology which supports the way you want to work.  www.waverleylane.co.uk

Welcome to Voice Technologies

Digital Dictation, Speech recognition and integration - it's at the very heart of what we do. We take the process challenges our clients face and work with them to find customer-driven solutions. 

Together, we deliver efficiencies that make jobs easier and more interesting; lawyers and consultants serve their clients more effectively; solutions support mobile working and dictation through a range of devices including Blackberry;  documents and reports are produced quicker using less resources and with integration to practice management systems we ensure you gain maximum advantage from your technology.  Every solution from Voice Technologies, backed up with first class support, makes a difference. Visit www.voicetechnologies.co.uk

The Infinite Group is a network of quality business advisors. We operate as a team to assist business owners of all backgrounds and industries to get the most out of their business. Everywhere we go, every business owner we meet, there are some common things we hear about what’s going on in their businesses:

(a) Time – "I’m spending way too much time in the day-to-day running of the business. I need to set some strategies to help me get back in control of my business – and my life!" (b) Money – "I’m NOT the highest paid person in the business, for the amount of time I spend in it. " (c) Team – "I find it difficult to find the right staff – and keep them"… There are lots of things to consider, but what do you actually do about it?

Contact Ken Moncrieff ken.moncrieff@the-infinite-group.com or Tim Dew tim.dew@the-infinite-group.com

Horsetiger is a Scottish based company specialising in providing management, marketing and media solutions for Scottish legal firms. If you're looking for some help with your marketing strategy, struggling to get a plan in place, need an external review of the firm, need a proper online strategy or just need a fresh approach, fresh eyes or some advice and assistance, then Horsetiger can help.

Horsetiger’s Directors have collectively over 100 yrs management and marketing experience gained across a number of business sectors. This breadth of experience and business expertise brings a particular commercial edge to our discussions with the legal profession especially in this current climate of change and new business structures and models. For further information visit www.horsetiger.co.uk

legalIS is a consultancy company which delivers management information services (MIS) to the Legal Profession.  It specialises in non-standard data retrieval and analysis from practice management systems to supplement or customise “out of the box” reports and information feeds. With a little help from legalIS, a firm can attain that report which is more specific to its own needs or where the standard doesn’t quite fit and/or perhaps the firm has no MIS expertise nor desire to dabble in report generator software. 

These facilities and expertise are made available through Jim Currie who, in over 30 years in the legal profession, has worked as a programmer and systems analyst within some of the major Legal Software houses in Scotland as well as in finance and internal MIS departments of major Scottish Law Firms.  legalIS also provides staff development and training services in advanced applications of Microsoft Excel and Word applied to a firm’s own database and correspondence styles.  Visit www.legalinformationsystems.co.uk

Baker Tilly’s Scottish Professional Practices Group is a multi-disciplinary group of Partners and Managers dedicated to servicing professional practice firms. 

Our long experience in advising professional practice and partnerships has helped one of the major advisers to professional practices in the UK providing a full range of services including audit, tax and advisory services to over 350 professional firms including 50 law firms. www.bakertilly.co.uk

 Mike Davidson, who heads up the Scottish Professional Practices Group, acts for many professional practice firms overseeing their business reporting and accounting requirements.  He also has been heavily involved in providing advice on succession planning and development strategies and has advised and assisted a number of firms in conversion to Limited Liability Partnership.  Michael.davidson@bakertilly.co.uk

 nFlow is a leading developer and supplier of Voice Productivity software to the UK legal market, offering a range of digital dictation solutions that improve workflow, enhance mobility, increase efficiencies and reduce costs.

A replacement to costly, cumbersome analogue tapes and time consuming self-typing, nFlow enables users to dictate documents, instructions or meeting notes from a digital device, BlackBerry, PDA or iPhone, increasing accuracy, compliance and productivity. Dictations can be sent back to a support team from anywhere at the click of a button, dramatically reducing turnaround times and enhancing speed of response to clients.

The enhanced productivity especially of fee earners as a result of increased voice productivity translates directly into lower administrative costs, more accurate and timely record keeping, better utilisation of staff talent and enhanced client service.

IHJ Solutions offer small to medium sized Law firms on the west coast a complete system supply and care package ranging from  MS Windows and other systems, networks, servers, desktops email (MS Exchange and as MDaemon authorized agents), antivirus, office-to-office and remote  connectivity and more...

 
LawWare says - “IHJ have been working alongside LawWare for many years now and are one of our longest standing and most valued strategic business alliances. Two of the finest IT professionals around are Calum Henderson & Ian Johnstone. They can be contacted at ihj@ihjsolutions.com or calum@hen.co.uk for “down to earth” IT infrastructure advice and offer highly cost effective solutions”.

The Styles Bank helps its clients manage their document styles to make them simple to access, simple to update and, most importantly, simple to use. No more typing of repetitive text for common letters and documents – simply “fill in the blanks” and produce professional, uniform documents each and every time.

ASfSS Ltd - Accounting Services for Scottish Solicitors

Dedicated to servicing the accounting requirements of the legal profession with unrivalled experience in dealing with Law Society compliance issues.  The team is headed by Andy Caldwell, who has extensive knowledge of legal practices and reporting requirements.  Andy was a Senior Inspector with the Law Society of Scotland for over 13 years.  In addition to being a member of SOLAS for over 20 years, Andy is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

For further details please email andy.caldwell@asfss.co.uk

Alchemist Technologies are the leading independent business to business IT specialists in the South West of Scotland. We provide a complete solution including the IT cabling infrastructure, ADSL, hardware, software, consultancy, installation and on-going support. 

We pride ourselves on our flexible approach to delivering a quality service that makes the implementation of new or refresh of old systems painless, efficient and cost effective.  We have worked closely with Lawware on a number of Classic and Enterprise implementations and this relationship allows us ensure we recommend and deliver the correct solution to benefit Lawware users.

Our sister company – Alchemist Communications – offers a wide range of innovative hosted and bespoke software solutions such as off site data storage, remote system monitoring, spam & virus filters & SAGE enhancements (we are a full Sage Development Partner).  We have a number of offices around Scotland and would be more than happy to discuss your current or future requirements at anytime.  

Email: - info@alchtech.co.uk , Tel: - Head Office (01387) 269888

Network ROI provides  a range of ICT services and products to small and medium sized businesses, large companies, government bodies and other organisations, working across public, provate and voluntary sectors.

Our core services and products focus on the key foundations of technology in any organisation: IT, Telecoms and structured cabling.

For further details contact Keith.Barbour@networkroi.co.uk or visit www.networkroi.co.uk

If you are an IT support organisation and would like to find out more about the LawWare Accredited Business Partner programme please e-mail your details to innovate@lawware.co.uk

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