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This form best relates to firms with ten or fewer partners. If your practice has more partners, email iform@LawPracticeConsultancy.com and ask for a free tailor made form for a large firm.
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Please enter your email address *

What is your position within the practice * Enter for example "Managing Partner"

What is your name? *

How many partners or equivalent are in the practice? * A "partner equivalent" is an individual who has an executive role within the practice

How many solicitors or equivalent are in the practice? * A "solicitor equivalent" is an individual who has a professional role within the practice e.g. an accountant. For example, if you have 1 associate, 6 assistant solicitors and 1 accountant, that would be 8 solicitor equivalents

How many Paralegals or Trainees does the practice have? * A Paralegal is an individual with either a relevant qualification or "on the job" legal training

How many secretarial staff does the practice have? *

How many remaining staff does the practice have? *

Please categorise these remaining staff e.g. cashroom, estate agency etc *

Which of the following best describes the type of practice? *

Please confirm those of the following which applies to your practice? (you can chose more than one) * This and other questions establish the technology levels within the practice

Every fee-earner has a PC
Every fee-earner has access to internal and external email
The practice has an intranet
The practice has a website
The practice has a website that is updated regularly
The practice has a technology plan
The practice has VOIP telephone system (the telephone service uses the same wiring as the computers and is part of the network
The practice is connected by a network
The practice has its fax service hosted on the computer network

If the practice has a website, is that website maintained within the practice or by an external company? *

Maintained within the practice
Maintained externally
Both
Other:

Using the Full Time equivalent notation, how many staff are involved solely on technology within the practice? * Full Time Equivalent (FTE) example. If two people each spent a third of their time on technology the FTE would be 0.66

Please select one of the following in respect of the use of case management * Case Management is a system that stores data in resect of case matters and utilises that to process the case and create documents

The practice has no case management system
The practice has case management and uses it in up to 10% of the practice's cases
The practice has case management and uses it in between 10-20% of the practice's cases
The practice has case management and uses it in between 20-40% of the practice's cases
The practice has case management and uses it in between 40-70% of the practice's cases
The practice has case management and uses it in between 70-100% of the practice's cases
Other:

To what extent, if any, has the practice utilised paperless systems. Choose which option is nearest or add your own description at "Other" * It is difficult to summarise all options so feel free to summarise your practice's position at "Other". Having a case management system is not paperless if you still maintain paper files.

There are no paperless systems
Paperless systems are utilied in up to 10% of the daily work throughout the practice
Paperless systems are utilied in between 10% and 25% of the daily work throughout the practice
Paperless systems are utilied in between 25% and 50% of the daily work throughout the practice
Paperless systems are utilied in between 25% and 50% of the daily work throughout the practice
Paperless systems are utilied in over 50% of the daily work throughout the practice
Other:

Nearly done! Please select which of the following correctly describes activities of management of the practice (you can select more than one) *

The practice has a formal business plan
There are specific regular meetings of Partners and relevant other persons to discuss the administration of the practice
There are specific regular meetings of Partners and relevant other persons to discuss the development of the practice
There are specific regular meetings of Partners and relevant other persons to discuss the economics of the practice
The practice has a decernible "Brand Value"
The practice produces monthly or bi-monthly accounts

How many distinct locations does the practice have? * Two physical offices (for instance across the street from each other) that represent one distinct office should be treated as one

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