Autumn Newsletter

Norwel News Letter Autumn 2011

 October 6^th“Red Letter Day?”

The SRA has described the 6th October 2011 as a "red letter" day for the legal sector. It brings forward alternative business structures (ABS), and it is the date on which the SRA introduces "outcomes focused regulation" (OFR).

Whilst there is a great deal of detail to be considered within the new rules,  many of the changes mean that firms need to have effective and monitored  “risk” strategies that ensure they comply with the new rules.

Risk Management is a key issue for all professional service firms, especially law firms.  It is a concept which makes good business sense, equally if implemented fully it can save money, not least in the renewal of PI premiums.

It is important that as well as having a clear strategy and policy, firms must demonstrate that risks have been identified, documented, allocated a risk owner and reported on an ongoing basis. Full article Click here.

Pro Active Reporting! Turning reports into actions.

KYC, Lexcel, internal quality checklists,  

Money Laundering, updating fees estimates, the sheer volume of regulatory, and compliance requirements, as well as internal policies and procedures can leave even the most conscientious Fee Earner struggling to keep every file in good order.

Distributing informative reports or even email alerts, to assist fee earners and managers to help them with these tasks is one thing. Making it easy for them to respond quickly and address the issues is another.

Norwel’s Interactive Matter Administration (IMA) is designed to make the process of dealing with matter administration issues as easy as possible by providing a “Do It Now” approach. IMA provides fee earners and managers with interactive reports on key issues, such as compliance, billing, credit control, transfers, fees estimates etc.

Users interact with the report by using a right mouse click which presents them with a choice of actions, for example, if a fees estimate is about to be exceeded, an option to contact the client, (with automated email, or letter production tools) and communicate why this has changed is provided. Click here for more details

Time recording on the move

Norwel have put in place a strategic partnership with rekoop® to provide clients with the rekoop® time recording module for blackberry. The system offers a full bi-directional sync to the Norwel Prescient system and provides some of the PMS functionality into the palm of the hand. rekoop® is the only BlackBerry client that works as standard with the BigHand and Winscribe BlackBerry clients ensuring that every dictation is billed quickly and automatically.

Alan Richardson Norwel’s Managing Director says “Integrated into Norwel’s Prescient PMS. rekoop® makes it really easy for you to record time on key activities or applications users interact with on a normal day to day basis to do their job. MS Word, Outlook, BlackBerry, Dictation, and  the office Telephone, Rekoop is there to record time as simply and as automatically as possible”

Norwel News

Tollers Case Study. Find out why David Baskerville IT Director says:

“in terms of delivery, quality and capability, Norwel is a big-hitter. It’s the ‘boutique’ approach” Click here

Document Bundling An easy way to save staff time!

“Norwel’s Document Bundling module has reduced the time our staff spend on preparing bundles by up to 80%”.

To read more Click here or for an online demonstration Click here

Norwel in the “Cloud”

Norwel have launched a managed service delivering Application Hosting as a  Service (SaaS) and business continuity financed on a per user per month basis. Alan Richardson Norwel’s Managing Director says “Practices are increasingly looking at ensuring that not only does their investment in   IT   deliver maximum value for money, but also supports the business in being able to respond quickly to new opportunities. For some clients moving to a Cloud based solution provides not only better value and service, but also provides significant flexibility in terms of expansion”.

Alan Richardson will Chair the panel at the Cloud Computing Conference at Law 2011 Manchester on the 26^th October.

New Staff. Our dedicated and experienced team of professionals has expanded recently and we’re looking for more talented people.  We would like to welcome five new team members, Adrian Watson - Case Management Analysis, Ian Singleton- Product Specialist & Trainer, Isobel Bartlett- Senior Software Developer,     Will Carter- Junior Developer,   and Sean Town -Sales.    Read more about their previous experience and their specialised skills by clicking the link click here

Software support that goes that bit further.