In the current economic climate, every business needs to ensure that they are operating at maximum efficiency, and law firms are no exception. But how can you monitor practice efficiency when there isn't always time to chase individual fee earners? 

The Reports Scheduler from DPS Software provides a comprehensive combination of reports that give a clear indication of how your practice is operating. The scheduler is set to run any report required at any date range and can be automatically set to email individual fee earners, providing them with a breakdown of their working performance.

The reports cover areas which affect the practice as a whole. Areas covered include, Key Performance Indicators as well as specific areas of work such as LSC criminal contract billing, among many others.

A long-established Central London law firm, Tucker Turner Kingsley Wood & Co provide advice to a wide range of corporate and private clients, in both the domestic and foreign arenas. The firm has particular expertise in commercial and residential property, company and commercial work, private client advice for high net worth individuals, litigation and employment law for employers and employees. For many years, they have acted for and provided lender support services and are a market leader in this field.

TTKW needed a system by which they could monitor the key dates and work completed on cases on a departmental basis. This system had to include reports to be scheduled to run every day and be sent to the departmental supervisors.  In addition, they needed Completion reports to be scheduled to run each month and sent to their Managing Partner and IT Manager for statistical analysis. 

Commenting on the Reports Scheduler implementation, Sharon Winkler, IT Manager at TTKW said: "The DPS system automatically generates daily key stage reports and monthly departmental completion reports.  With the simple management interface we can individually schedule and designate recipients for each report." 

She continued: "These reports have saved a considerable amount of time in compiling vital performance statistics and enabling the partners to determine how efficiently the practice is operating on a day-to-day basis."

Levenes Solicitors, a regulated national law firm with over 150 staff, also use the DPS Report Scheduler to monitor work completed on case files. Paul Miller of Levenes’ IT Department commented: "The DPS Reports Scheduler works with the bespoke reports that I had already created for Levenes. It automatically generates and emails these reports (which include files not worked on, limitation dates coming up and number of files opened) to all of our Personal Injury fee earners every month, without user intervention. Previously, someone had to spend hours each month manually doing this."

These reports are now available. If you would like to find out more please contact your Account Manager or email info@dpssoftware.co.uk.