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Corel Launches New WordPerfect Bundle for Small Law Firms.


OTTAWA -- New Legal Quick Start Bundle Delivers the Most Feature-Rich, Cost-Effective Solution for Complete Office Productivity and Practice Management

Corel today introduced the WordPerfect(R) Office 12 Legal Quick Start bundle, a new value-priced combination of two of the legal community's favorite software applications-WordPerfect Office 12 and Amicus AMICUS Automated Management Information Civil Users System  Attorney(R) practice management software, plus WordPerfect OfficeReady Business Essentials, a comprehensive collection of pre-formatted document templates.

Offered at a suggested retail price (SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. ) of only $299.99US, the Legal Quick Start Bundle provides three leading productivity and practice management tools for approximately 25% less than the SRP of Microsoft(R) Office 2003 alone. In addition, the Legal Quick Start bundle can save buyers as much as $175US off the price of buying the applications separately, making it ideal for new law offices, solo practitioners or those making technology upgrades.

A desktop standard for more than 20 million users worldwide, a large number of whom work in the legal community, WordPerfect Office A suite of office applications for Windows from Corel that includes WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Corel Presentations, Paradox and CorelCENTRAL (PIM, scheduling, etc.). It is the successor to Corel WordPerfect Suite, which was the successor to Corel Office.  delivers an unparalleled feature set, including Publish-to-PDF, Microsoft Office-compatibility, the formatting control of Reveal Codes, and an industry-leading set of integrated legal tools.

With this bundle, Corel is extending its ability to meet the very specific requirements of new and smaller 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.
. These firms need more complete, integrated practice management and office productivity software at very affordable prices without restrictive license agreements. To date, larger software providers have not catered to these requirements.

"Today small law firms are under pressure from high software costs and complex licensing schemes," said Les Hansen, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Gavel gavel

small mallet used by judge or presiding officer to signal order. [Western Culture: Misc.]

See : Authority
 and Gown Software, Inc., developers of Amicus Attorney. "The Legal Quick Start Bundle combines two of the most trusted brands serving the legal community to alleviate this pressure, providing a powerful and value-priced combination of productivity and practice management tools that make it easy for small firms to efficiently manage their businesses and interact with clients."

"Any lawyer who has been forced into using another office suite will be thrilled with WordPerfect Office 12," said Richard Carriere, General Manager for Office Productivity at Corel. "It provides the tools lawyers love, opens, edits and saves smoothly to Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities.  formats, and offers the best PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  capabilities of any office suite. With WordPerfect Office 12, law offices can now confidently exchange files with customers in whatever format they prefer."

Available now across the U.S. and Canada, the WordPerfect Office 12 Legal Quick Start Bundle can be purchased online at www.wordperfect.com/quickstart or via leading resellers including CDW CDW - data warehouse , Dell.com, PCMall, Programmer's Paradise and Softchoice. The WordPerfect Office 12 Legal Quick Start Bundle may also be licensed under Corel's simple and flexible licensing programs. For more information on licensing, please visit www.wordperfect.com/licensing or contact Corel customer service at 1-877-652-6735.

Trusted Brands, Unrivalled Value for Small Firms

Used by more than 20 million customers worldwide, WordPerfect Office 12 is the value-priced and feature-rich alternative to Microsoft Office, providing full-featured word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and , spreadsheet, presentation and address book applications. WordPerfect Office 12 is compatible with popular file formats, including Microsoft Office, HTML HTML
 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
 and XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
, and allows customers to share files created in WordPerfect Office with users of other office productivity tools.

To meet the growing demand among law offices for PDF capabilities, WordPerfect Office 12 provides an intuitive Publish to PDF feature that eliminates the need for additional costly PDF software This list of PDF software includes links to articles on computer software used to manage PDF documents. There is also Wikipedia category for individual articles. Linux/UNIX
Free and open source
  • CUPS – printing system, can export to PDF
. For more information on WordPerfect Office 12, please visit www.wordperfect.com.

Amicus Attorney Organizer Edition is the essential law office management suite, providing tools to organize client files, schedule appointments, manage to-do lists, track people, draft documents, track phone calls and e-mails and record billable time. Developed by lawyers for lawyers, Amicus Attorney is an easy-to-use program that understands exactly how legal professionals work. Featuring natural workflow and an intuitive graphical interface See GUI. , Amicus Attorney sets itself apart from other practice management systems. More information on Amicus Attorney is available at www.amicusattorney.com.

WordPerfect OfficeReady Business Essentials is one of the many OfficeReady Solution Packs available from Corel. OfficeReady Solution Packs save small businesses time by providing pre-formatted templates that create impressive documents, spreadsheets, or presentations in only minutes. WordPerfect OfficeReady Solution Packs are available at www.wordperfect.com/officeready.

About Amicus Attorney

Amicus Attorney is the world's leading practice management software for lawyers. Over 200,000 legal professionals worldwide have invested in Amicus Attorney. Gavel & Gown Software has been headquartered in Toronto since its incorporation in 1993. Obtain additional information by calling 1-800-472-2289 or by visiting www.amicusattorney.com.

About Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company.  

Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 100 countries improve their productivity.The Company is best known for its graphics, office and personal productivity solutions, including the CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect Office Suite and Corel Painter Painter is the name of a raster graphics software package used to create natural-looking artistic images using a computer. Originally available on the Macintosh, it is now also available for Windows.  Natural-Media(R), painting and illustration software. Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003 and, since that time has achieved record levels of profitability and growth across all product lines.Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.corel.com

(C) 2004 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Painter, Natural-Media and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. Amicus is a registered trademark of Gavel & Gown Software, Inc. All other product, font font
 or typeface or type family

Assortment or set of type (alphanumeric characters used for printing), all of one coherent style. Before the advent of computers, fonts were expressed in cast metal that was used as a template for printing.
 and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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