General Litigation

DPS General Litigation provides a comprehensive case management and automatic documents assembly system for the legal practitioner. Enabling fee earners to optimise the number of matters they can handle efficiently, whilst simultaneously reducing the time needed to process the matter to its full conclusion. 

Flexibility 

Designed as a framework, which can be tailored to suit the diverse range of needs from the small high street firm up to the legal departments in large commercial organisations.

The unparalleled flexibility of the product ensures that it can be customised to suit individual or firms needs and not vice versa.

Document Assembly 

DPS General Litigation is supplied with a precedent standard library to enable documents, forms and letters to be automatically assembled by DPS. The system uses an 'intelligent' document production engine to select paragraphs and sentences to draft documents. This reduces the time spent on manually completing many time consuming aspects, to provide substantial time savings to your firm. 

Furthermore, the systems comprehensive database means that information needs to be entered only once for documents, forms or letters to be completed with all relevant information. This can be anything from court addresses, reference codes, client names to third party information. 

In the production of non-standard letters, DPS can format the basic information in a document in seconds. All users, even those with limited keyboard skills, only need to type in the main body of text, as the system automatically inserts the date, reference, name, address and your personal sign off. 

Automatic Case Costing and Tracking

As a by-product, DPS will automatically cost the letter, record each action taken on the letter, such as the letter being sent out, as well as post reminders of future actions to be taken. 

Additional features include the full time recording facility incorporated within the system. You can choose one of two options in which your time  can be recorded. Time can be entered by manual input on the screen, or on an integral 'clock' button which allows you to click on and off as necessary to avoid missed and inaccurate time recordings.   

A record of disbursements, telephone calls and correspondence is maintained. This information can be displayed in an instance for any matter and is available for billing purposes. 

Electronic Forms Completion 

A unique option for removing the need for pre-printed stationery. DPS allows documents and forms to be printed automatically onto plain paper with all case details completed. 

Documents and forms prepared in this manner, avoid the costly errors connected with poor printer management and high storage space requirements. In addition to the cheaper cost of using plain paper, coupled with the speed of producing the letters and documents directly onto plain paper. Moreover, documents, letters and forms can be amended easily to encompass individual or firm design requirements. 

Accounts Integration 

The General Litigation system integrates seamlessly with DPS Cashier Accounting system to give you a complete legal office system for all users within your firm. 

DPS presents you with the option to add DPS Cashier Accounting system at a later date, should your future circumstances need to facilitate an accounts system. The benefit of the integration is real time and bi-directional, so any updates made on one system are automatically accepted and updated on the other system. 

The design reduces the time spent on input and checking data on two systems, whilst ensuring that accounts data is kept fully up-to-date on case files within all systems. 

E-mail Integration 

DPS integrates with the Microsoft ® Outlook 2000 e-mail system to allow instant communication with your clients and their case files. By allowing you to save incoming e-mail messages directly onto case files by simply dragging and dropping the message(s) onto the relevant file(s) in one easy step. While, allowing you to send e-mails through DPS, which in turn, are automatically saved on the file you are working on. 

Links to Microsoft ® Word 97 and 2000

All DPS modules integrate effortlessly with Microsoft ® Word 97 and 2000 to allow existing precedents to be incorporated easily.

In addition, the provision of a commonly used interface such as Microsoft ® Word increases user acceptance. In turn, the expenditure usually associated with the training of new software implementation is either completely eliminated or reduced.

If you would like further information on this product, or would like to arrange a demonstration, please contact DPS Sales on 020 8804 1022 or alternatively, e-mail us. 

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