LEAP: what your legal tech should look like in 2020

John Espley, LEAP UK CEO, gives a snapshot of what you should be looking for from legal software to maximise your practice’s productivity in 2020 and beyond. If a customer wanted to see a lawyer ten years ago, then they would have had to call the firm’s office, talk to a receptionist and wait to […]

LEAP discuss: Implementing self-service technology for your clients with a web portal

Clients are precious, after all, they pay the bills. And yet, despite their importance, so much effort goes into finding new clients as opposed to looking after existing ones. A happy client not only provides repeat business but is a great source of referrals and this is exactly why SME firms across the UK are […]

LEAP partners with FileMan in the UK

FileMan, the specialists in records management for the legal profession, are launching in the UK this November as a business support partner to LEAP Legal Software. FileMan will enhance the LEAP product by offering archiving for law firms’ closed files offsite. FileMan saves valuable office space and enables the management of storage, handling and destruction […]

How to overcome the legal skills shortage, by Richard Hugo-Hamman, LEAP executive chairman

In the UK, unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 1975 with employers now facing a skills shortage. Employees are choosing to move to greener pastures and the inability to replace a good employee may now pose an existential threat to businesses. Technology can help law firms do more work with the same number […]

LEAP scoops ‘Service Provider to the Legal Profession’ award at Irish Law Awards 2019

LEAP, the leading provider of legal practice management software, is proud to have won the award for ‘Service Provider to the Legal Profession’ at the Irish Law Awards held recently in Dublin. This award not only celebrates LEAP’s excellence as a service provider to the legal profession in Ireland but is also a testament to […]

New LEAP App is changing how lawyers manage probate

Probate work is highly administrative and due to its delicate nature must be carried out with great care and attention.  This often causes conflict with the need to work efficiently. Throughout the past year, LEAP has added significant new features to its practice management solution so that lawyers practising probate can increase profits but keep […]

By Lawyers launches legal guides and precedents in the UK

By Lawyers, the global publisher of legal guides, commentaries, forms and precedents announced their arrival in the United Kingdom this month via their strategic partnership with LEAP, the leading legal practice management software provider. The By Lawyers’ publications are authored by experienced practising UK lawyers and cover all common areas of law in England and […]

LEAP celebrates 2000 UK law firms

The appetite that law firms in the UK have to embrace the cloud and leverage technology to improve their firms is best demonstrated by the fact that more than 2000 law firms in the UK and Ireland have now made the switch to LEAP. First launched in January 2015, this is the fastest uptake of […]

LEAP chosen as headline sponsor for Bold Legal Live!

LEAP, one of the UK’s leading practice management software providers, has been announced as the headline sponsor for the first ever Bold Legal Conference to be held in London on 18th October this year. The conference called Bold Legal LIVE! is being hosted in association with the ESTAS Group who will be holding their annual […]

eSignatures: A sign of the times

These days, using the internet or a smartphone app to book a taxi, check-in for a flight or manage your personal finances has become second nature to most of us and handling legal transactions digitally should be no different. In fact, the emergence of eSignatures is making this an ever-growing reality. In an increasingly competitive […]