1. Why buy Legis?

2. How can Legis help my business?

3. What are the cost benefits?

4. How much will it cost?

5. What size can my firm grow to?

6. Does Legis have a fully integrated accounts system?

Why buy Legis?

Partner’s tell us that using Legis dramatically reduces costs, has improved accuracy and has helped them capture new business.

We’ve been told by fee earners that it’s the easiest, most effective and reliable system they’ve ever used.

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How can Legis help my business?

When Legis is used properly, it speeds up processes and improves accuracy. This is achieved by using Legis to mirror the way your firm works.

Legis can be tailored to manage cases in a great variety of ways. This flexibility allows us to mirror the best elements of your current working practises making management and staff feel comfortable with the way the software functions.

In areas that your firm may not be so well organised Legis can be used to sharpen up practises so that costly errors can be trapped and avoided and information can be handled smoothly and with greater control.

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What are the cost benefits?

The cost benefits come from a huge increase in efficiency that can be achieved when Legis is used properly. Sites operating Legis have repeatedly outbid competitors when tendering for work simply because the ruthless efficiency that Legis can bring to bear on case management operations. Indeed, you may be from one of the firms who have lost business to a well run Legis site!

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How much will it cost?

Like all good systems we are not cheap, but we are very competitive and it largely depends what you are looking for.

We have Clients running as little as five users to some with many hundreds of users. Some sites will want little support ,others will want a lot of input to help their business to develop rapidly. Prices start from as little as £10000.00 and the cost per seat reduces the more seats you license.

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What size can my firm grow to?

Legis is very scaleable. You can have as few as 5 users, or thousands.

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Does Legis have a fully integrated accounts system?

If you are asking do we integrate to other companies accounts system then the answer is – yes, of course!

However, if you are absolutely set on having accounts and case management both from the one company, then we think you’re making a big mistake so we’re very sorry but you will have to accept that Legis is not for you.

Despite the number of years Legis Systems has been involved in Case Management we have not once been tempted to produce a Legis accounts system.

There are several reasons for this.

 1.         Our core experience is in Case Management. It is the best on the market and will remain so because we are totally focused. Accounts is a completely different application and there are some very good systems out there that, frankly, are better than anything we could develop in a sensible period.

2.         We believe our clients should be able to choose the best accounts package available. All good accounts systems are able to integrate relatively easily with Case Management systems. (Our experience shows that this can sometimes initially be made to seem difficult by integrated systems suppliers, but that it usually suddenly becomes easy to do if a buyer states that they won’t buy the Accounts side of the application unless it can be integrated with Legis or similar seperate case management system!).

3.         Firms who buy so-called fully integrated systems quickly find that everything is never as smooth as the brochure and demonstration suggested. Furthermore, they soon find that some parts are often better developed than others. Whilst the accounts department might be happy, the Employment Law people might be questioning why their new software is obviously worse than the system it replaced!

4.         Software suppliers who manage to sell a fully integrated Case Management and Accounts system can always be seen rubbing their hands with glee. Why? Because of the ‘Lock-In’ syndrome (older members of the IT community may remember similar situations with IBM in the days when they were dominant).

Once you have replaced all your major software with applications from one company, just try replacing it! If you have several different applications and one of them is not performing, you simply buy a better product. Disruption is limited and the costs manageable.

When replacing an integrated system ALL your departments are involved and the costs are horrendous, so people rarely are in a position to change. So when the software company you bought from gets sold, or support costs rise, or new upgrades cost the earth, or areas of the product stop being developed, or are focussed towards new markets away from your area, where will you go?

There are obviously counter arguments to this, but let us just say that there are many IT professionals running integrated systems that will tell you privately that the downsides hugely overshadow the benefits.

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