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CS Group Buys AIM for £5.3M Earlier This Month the AIM-Listed Computer Software Group Bought Hull-Based Legal Systems Supplier AIM for £5.3 Million in Cash

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CS Group Buys AIM for £5.3M Earlier This Month the AIM-Listed Computer Software Group Bought Hull-Based Legal Systems Supplier AIM for £5.3 Million in Cash www.legaltechnology.com CS Group buys AIM for £5.3m Earlier this month the AIM-listed Computer Software Group bought Hull-based legal systems supplier AIM for £5.3 million in cash. AIM’s audited accounts to 30 April 2005 show a pre-tax loss from continuing operations of £107k and gross assets of £7.5 million. Since then AIM has disposed of another division and consequently pre-tax losses for the year to 30 April 2006 are expected to increase. However the CS Group says it is confident that “cost savings and synergies resulting from the acquisition CPL expect £850k IT will result in a significant increase in future profitability”. Currently income from recurring support contracts account payback in year one for approximately 51% of AIM’s annual sales. Europe’s largest conveyancing operation Countrywide Property Lawyers is investing Following the acquisition Jim Chase is to continue as £850,000 in an upgrade of their Visualfiles managing director of AIM’s legal software business unit case management and SOS practice within the CS Group. All other AIM Group directors have management software. CPL, who resigned. Commenting on the deal, CS Group chief originally went with a Visualfiles/SOS executive Vin Murria said she was “confident AIM, with its solution in 1997 but then flirted with and strong and stable client base, will steadily grow in sales subsequently abandoned a bespoke and profits. It will provide a sound base from which CS project called Fusion, say they are Group can develop a significant position in the legal confident the upgrade will pay for itself sector, in which we intend to become a leading supplier.” within the first year of implementation. CPL chairman Terry Marris says he The broker’s forecast for the CS Group in 2005/06 is a expects the new systems to reduce typical turnover of £24.7million rising to £28.5 million in 2007. transaction times from 12-13 weeks to less Vin Murria said she saw the AIM acquisition as the first than 10; increase workload capacity from step in a consolidation of the legal systems market and 10,000 to 30,000 active cases at any one anticipates further deals in the coming months. Insider time; and achieve a corresponding sources suggest she is likely to finalise the acquisition of a threefold increase in revenue generation, well known electronic legal forms business within the next which currently stands at £22m with few weeks. In terms of longer term strategy, Murria said the 10,000 cases. CS Group “will never end-of-life a product” and envisages adding further products, already within the CS Group, to the AIM product range, including debt recovery, CRM, Microsoft to join LSSA? document management and business intelligence systems. Latest reports indicate Microsoft UK has The CS Group’s chief operating officer, whose board-level applied to join the Legal Software duties include responsibility for AIM, is David England Suppliers Association, the UK legal IT who previously headed up the operations of Solution 6 industry trade organisation. Some LSSA (now Aderant) in the UK. members are already looking forward to the day when they will be able to sit • Ironically the last person to talk about consolidating the around a table drinking tea, eating hobnob legal IT market was John Wilde, who headed AIM in the biscuits and chatting with Bill Gates. mid-1990s after a previous management buyout. Legal Technology Insider (187) May 2006 2 News in brief BP planning legal Perfect Defence now available in UK management system The Spellex Corporation’s Perfect Defence BP has announced details a data flow and information legal spell checking software is now management system for its inhouse legal department. The available in a UK/English version, with project will involve the analysis of business processes and prices starting at £43 for a single user. The integration of workflow, e-billing, document management dictionary is compatible with Word and and information retrieval systems among its 750 legal staff Wordperfect and there is also a medical spread over 50 locations. Group general counsel Peter dictionary suitable for firms with a PI Bevan said “BP Legal is creating a truly global matter and practice. Call +1 813 792 7000 for a free information management system to improve our efficiency evaluation copy. and help us to more pro-actively manage our legal costs.” www.spellex.co.uk Kevin Connell, previously head of IT at Masons but now information director for BP Legal, is one of the team Kutana launches printer manager involved in this project. Three suppliers will be involved in Specialist software developer Kutana the project, they are: CT TyMetrix, which will provide its (0870 220 2275) has launched a printer hosted matter management and e-billing software; management system called Kupris that can Interwoven, which will provide its WorkSite document control printer routing on a firm, office or management software to handle the storage and retrieval department-wide basis. It was developed of electronic documents, including email; and, Huron in conjunction with Boodle Hatfield and is Consulting, who will provide business process and used by Stevens & Bolton in Guildford. implementation support services. www.kutana.co.uk www.cttymetrix.com ww.huronconsultinggroup.com Lester Aldridge network with Neos As an alternative to using a leased line to Clifford Chance joins ‘4000 link its Bournemouth, Southampton and London offices, Lester Aldridge has opted club’ of InterAction users for multiple VLANs (virtual local area Clifford Chance has extended its use of LexisNexis networks) running across an ethernet Interface Software’s InterAction CRM system to include a connection provided by Neos Networks. global licence for 4000 users in 28 offices in 19 different www.neosnetworks.co.uk countries. Prior to this latest order, the firm had just 750 InterAction users in its London and New York offices. Axxia sites migrate to SQL Server Clifford Chance along with DLA Piper and Skadden Arps, Hextalls and Davies Lavery have migrated who also have 4000 each users, are the three largest users from Axxia’s legacy practice management of InterAction within the law firms’ market. system Arista, running on Informix to the new Artiion/MS SQL Server platform. Axxia’s Doug McLachlan said the move Registered mail for BlackBerry shows users “like what they see” in terms RPost UK (01625 820600) is now supporting registered of Axxia’s technology route map. email messages sent from BlackBerrys and other popular PDAs including the Palm Treo and Windows Mobile devices. The RPost system allows firms to confirm both Quote, unquote when an email was sent and when it was received for “But can the system be integrated with my between 21p and 44p per message. Once a firm is set up Apple iPod?” ...a partner is unimpressed to run RPost, it can be used on a BlackBerry simply by by a supplier’s demonstration of its new typing (R) at the beginning of the subject line. BlackBerry implementation. www.rpost.com Legal Technology Insider (187) May 2006 3 Pilgrim a ‘no brainer’ News in brief says Ronnie Fox Videss swap out two competitors Pilgrim Systems has announced that two new high profile After 20 years with AIM, Eastbourne-based start-ups are implementing LawSoft as their practice and Stephen Rimmer & Co have switched to case management systems. The first order came from Videss and will shortly be implementing a Manchester-based Lane-Smith & Shindler, one of the few 60 user PMS with conveyancing, family firms in the region with a niche trusts, estate planning and and probate case applications. Over in wills practice. The firm was formed by Roger Lane-Smith, Brentwood, Wortley Byers have dropped previously executive chairman and senior partner of DLA Axxia after 10 years and, in a £85k deal, Piper Rudnick Group Cary, and Geoffrey Shindler, who are also moving to a Videss system. was the head of Trusts & Estates department at Halliwells. SOS take three new orders The other order came from Fox, the firm created by Fox Solicitors Own Software (SOS) has sold its Williams’ founder and former senior partner Ronnie Fox. practice management system into three Fox said “it was a no brainer for my new firm to buy firms in a series of deals worth over £200k LawSoft. I’m a long time fan of Pilgrim (Fox Williams also in total. The orders came from uses LawSoft) and wanted to make sure Fox had the very Whittinghams in Glamorgan, Solomon best IT system available to help us with future growth”. Taylor Shaw in north London who are also installing SOS file management, and Winchester-based Dutton Gregory who Mills & Reeve go Mimecast will run the system in conjunction with Mills & Reeve has switched from a managed service Visualfiles case management software. provider to Mimecast to handle email security. The firm will implement Mimecast’s Smart Perimeter system to Eclipse see ‘Tesco law’ effect provide protection against all common email threats, as Eclipse Legal Systems say they are seeing well as an ‘always on’ email continuity facility that can more organisations investing in case deliver messages via a web-mail service (as distinct from management software to place themselves merely queue them) when an email server is down. in a stronger position to compete in a post www.mimecast.com Clementi legal services market. Recent wins for Eclipse include orders from employment law specialists Bulfin & Co Thorpe joins LexisNexis and start-up general practice Chase Law. Alison Thorpe (no relation to David Thorpe) has left the sales team of PMS supplier Aderant (she was the horse SIFA to verify clients with GB riding one in Aderant’s recent ad campaign) to join the SIFA (Solicitors For Independent Financial strategic marketing department at LexisNexis Butterworths Advice) has signed an exclusive deal with as a ‘client development solutions specialist’.
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