Affiliates

LEAP works with a number of carefully chosen business affiliates to help them grow their businesses.

If you have a product or service that you believe will add value to The LEAP Solution for small law firms, please email the Channels Manager at channels@leap.com.au.

Smokeball is the leading provider of legal commentaries and legal works that incorporate legal forms and precedent documents as well as links to relevant legislation in a single integrated online environment.

Smokeball users find that:-

They can take on work that they would otherwise turn away;
They can access Smokeball publications from any computer connected to the Internet – they have complete portability.
The publications are affordably priced and are available without minimum subscription periods;
Their subscription costs for the traditional and costly legal publications are significantly reduced;
Traditional version maintenance problems associated with hard copy publications are eliminated.

Users of LEAP Office receive access to Step-by-Step Guides, and automated Precedents and Legal Forms for all common areas of law for their state.

Visit Smokeball at www.smokeball.com.au.

Smokeball now has a Malaysian site offering free legal forms for Malaysian lawyers: www.smokeball.com.my

FileMan - is a specialist document storage and records management company serving law firms across New South Wales and Queensland. They have dedicated off-site Document Storage Centres located in Artarmon (NSW) and Loganholme (QLD) where firms store their hard copy and electronic records in a secure environment.

Our services are designed to assist law firms meet their obligations in an efficient and cost-effective manner with respect to the care, retention, and accessibility of client records. All files and electronic media are comprehensively catalogued and tracked into and out of our centres using dedicated proprietary cataloguing and tracking software.

For more information please phone toll free 1800 820 061 or visit www.fileman.com.au.

Secure Print is accredited by the Australian Payments Clearing Association as a producer of cheques of the highest quality and with all the latest security features needed to minimise the growing risks of tampering and cheque fraud. In a joint development, LEAP Accounting is

pre-configured to work with cheques produced by Secure Print so LEAP Accounting users have the

peace of mind of knowing that their software and cheques will always work well together.

To make it easy for you Secure Print obtains Bank Approval on your behalf at no extra charge and guarantees that your cheques will be APCA Publication 11.5.1 compliant.

For more information contact Malcolm Odgers at orders@secureprint.com.au or visit

www.secureprint.com.au.

Team Leasing is a market leader in tailoring finance for business equipment solutions, meeting the needs of both customers and suppliers alike. They develop sales aid financing programs for technology equipment and software that stimulate growth by providing a cost effective and easy way for your customers to acquire equipment or services. Their objective is to give your business measurable value in terms of increased orders and opportunities for margin growth.

Team Leasing also specialise in helping businesses grow by providing quick, simple and competitive finance and leasing solutions for business related equipment and motor vehicles.

For more information please phone 1300 798 977 or visit www.teamleasing.com.au.

Macquarie Relationship Banking, a division of Macquarie Bank Limited, provides an innovative
end-to-end financial solution designed specifically to help legal practitioners save time, money,
and improve operating efficiencies to manage client monies more effectively.

The core components of Macquarie Relationship Banking’s offering include:-

DEFT® Management Service

DEFT is an innovative payment, collection, receipting and reconciliation service that allows you to offer your clients a range of payment options.

Deposit Accounts Management
SECURE Accounts for controlled monies is designed to assist legal firms to efficiently manage client monies across a range of categories.

Online Banking
Active Banking is an online banking service that allows you to conduct your regular banking activities via the internet.

Trust Account Management

Trust Accounts assist firms to effectively manage client deposits and comply with trust account legislation.

This information doesn’t take into account what you want and need for your financial future.

It also doesn’t take into account how much money you have to invest. It is important for you to consider these matters and read the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) before you make an investment decision. You can get a copy of the PDS from our website at www.macquarie.com.au or by calling 02 8232 6138.

For more information please phone (02) 8232 6138 or visit www.macquarie.com.au.

Rob Knowsley LL.B. MIMC - Senior Consultant

Email: robk@lawfirmprofit.com

KNOWSLEY MANAGEMENT SERVICES

ABN: 85 059 267 480

Website: www.lawfirmprofit.com

Voicemail: Freecall in Australia only 1800 621 270

Fax: 02 6337 5000

Fax International: +61 2 6337 5000

Address: Knowsley Park, 1659 Mutton Falls Rd, O'Connell NSW 2795

Rob Knowsley is a lawyer…now a high-performance coach and facilitator, dedicated to assisting law firms and their individual lawyers and owners maximise their return on investment from reasonable inputs of time, money and other resources.

His 34 years experience since qualifying as a Lawyer, involving 1090 law firms, and his excellent communication and inter-personal skills, are your guarantee that your firm and its team members can dramatically improve their effectiveness, with great benefit to all stakeholders in your business.

Rob has developed specific systems over the last twenty-odd years to ensure that law firms of all sizes operate effectively as “proper” businesses. The methods are tried and tested, and are proven to generate far better returns than traditional methods lawyers have assumed are “the best” for many decades.

KMS has multiple referees in the profession in Australia and New Zealand, and is happy to provide written references on request, and to introduce practitioners to partners in similar size and style firms to discuss the impact of KMS services on those KMS client firms over the years.

For more information phone 1800 621 270 or visit www.lawfirmprofit.com .

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