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Clarke Willmott Selects IntApp Time Builder to Boost Firm Revenue and Improve Lawyer Time Recording.


Time Builder Software Creates an Automatic "Daily Diary" of Lawyer Activity to Help Ensure That All Billable Work is Recorded

PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California
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, Calif. -- IntApp, Inc., the leading provider of time capture, risk management and integration software for the legal industry, today announced that Clarke Willmott Clarke Willmott is a mid-sized United Kingdom law firm based in the Bristol with offices in the Birmingham, Southampton and Taunton. See also
  • List of largest UK law firms
External links
  • Clarke Willmott website
 LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , a UK-based law firm with 300 fee earners, has selected IntApp Time Builder to increase lawyer time entry effectiveness, boost firm revenue and improve client billing practices.

"The firm's board chartered a strategic effort to revise internal time recording policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental  in order to enhance firm financial performance and improve client billing practices," said Greg Lovett, Partner, Clarke Willmott LLP. "Time Builder enables us to achieve our objectives and realise significant business benefits, without creating additional burdens for fee earners."

Time Builder is software that enables law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
 to increase revenue by capturing billable time that is missed or under-billed. It does this by providing lawyers with an accurate, consolidated journal of client/matter-related activity, generated by automatically monitoring the key applications they use throughout the day. Tracked systems include document creation, email, calendar, phone, and mobile devices.

Lawyer activity journals are cross-referenced against client matter information and provided in a "daily timesheet" format available as an automated email or paper printout. Journals are also accessible by lawyers, or their secretaries, through a web-based interface which allows activities to be grouped, detailed and submitted to common time entry applications, including those provided by vendors such as Thomson Elite, ADERANT, Advanced Productivity Software, PensEra Knowledge Technologies and Sage Software.

This approach allows lawyers to more easily record and enter time, often finding lost or overlooked work. Additionally, by simplifying time tracking, Time Builder increases lawyer satisfaction while accelerating internal pre-bill review and external client collections.

"Our IT organisation is focused on delivering technology solutions that directly benefit the firm and its clients," said Iain Hepburn, IT Director, Clarke Willmott LLP. "Time Builder's daily automatic diaries will enable our fee earners to capture and enter more complete records of billable activity with less overhead and inconvenience."

"We're pleased to add Clarke Willmott to our growing roster of international clients," said Jon Roscow, General Manager, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. , IntApp. "We look forward to supporting their efforts to enhance the firm's performance by enabling fee earners to automatically capture all billable activity, so they can focus less on overhead and more on delivering value to their clients."

About IntApp

IntApp provides software that enables law firms to increase revenue, ensure client confidentiality The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 and maximise lawyer productivity. With over 150 customers, including 40% of the 200 largest US firms as ranked by The American Lawyer, and a vibrant partner community, IntApp has been embraced and endorsed as an industry standard. For more information, visit: www.intapp.com.

About Clarke Willmott

Clarke Willmott, shortlisted for Regional/National Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards, has been called the most ambitious of the next generation of national law firms. The firm's turnover and size has more than doubled in the last five years. As a result Clarke Willmott has moved up 33 places in the UK rankings, breaking into the top 60 law firms in 2007. The firm has 500 people based across four UK offices.

Lawyers in the litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
 team have financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 qualifications and experience and specialise in providing advice to victims of financial mis-selling. The firm conducts cases before the courts, the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Pensions Ombudsman The Pensions Ombudsman is the official ombudsman institution responsible for invesigating complaints regarding pensions in the United Kingdom. The Pensions Ombudsman is appointed by the Government, but acts independently after appointment. .

The team advises clients on the following issues:

Breach of trust claims arising from pension assets; Professional negligence professional negligence n. See malpractice.  claims against pension trustees, financial advisers and life office representatives; Claims arising from financial advice, pensions and life policies; Claims arising from poor management of financial assets Financial assets

Claims on real assets.
; and Any dispute concerning a service or product regulated under the Financial Services Markets Act.

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