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LEGAL ABACUS reports on the activities of the ILCA and provides news and information for all staff who deal with the finance and administration of a legal practice. It also provides a platform for members to air their views and exchange ideas, as well as acting as a lively forum for debate.

LEGAL ABACUS positively encourages participation and contributions from its readers and is constantly looking for new ideas and talent. There is also a healthy Classified Section with freelance members, recruitment consultants, solicitors practices and computer companies all taking advantage of the extremely competitive advertising rates to reach the magazine's wide readership.

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Contents of LEGAL ABACUS include:

Special features on matters of topical interest i.e. Personnel Management, Administration Features
Updates on changes in law and regulations i.e. Solicitors' Accounts Rules; VAT; LSC News
IT Update and Notice Board pages containing up-to-the-minute news
News from Ireland
Lively recruitment advertising section
Letters page
Diary of Events

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May/June 09 Cover

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The IT Guide is free of charge to all ILCA members.

The 2008 edition of the ILCA Listed Suppliers Guide – Legal Accounts & Administration Systems & Services is now available. The guide contains an alphabetical listing of the accounts, financial management and practice management systems from the UK’s leading legal software suppliers.

For most firms technology is one of the single largest items of expenditure in their annual budgets, with practices spending on average 5.5 percent of their gross fee income each year on IT related products. The ILCA Listed suppliers Guide offers an invaluable explanation of some of the issues and tips associated with the selection and implementation of modern IT systems.

The selection of a new practice or case management system is potentially a huge topic and a process that many of you will already be familiar with and have experienced on a number of occasions. Nevertheless many solicitors practices still get this process wrong and make potentially damaging choices, the ILCA Listed Suppliers Guide will help to examine some of the of the issues where problems and misunderstandings can frequently arise.

Charles Christian has over 25 years experience in Law Office Technology and Online legal services and has worked with the ILCA to produce the Guide.

If you are an ILCA member you will automatically receive a copy of our Listed Suppliers Guide.