PI Portal App
For firms undertaking low value personal injury claims, our fully integrated PI Portal app streamlines the process of managing claims made through the Claims Portal.
The seamless integration with LEAP Desktop simplifies the claims process and communication between parties, ensuring efficiency throughout, and inbuilt validation guarantees the correct data is submitted, meaning you can be confident that your claim will be processed on time.
All claim types are available across RTA, Employers Liability and Public Liability.
Find out more by following the link to our latest innovation update.
Receipt Requests App
Our Receipt Requests app complements LEAP Desktop by providing fee earning staff the tools they need to advise the Accounts Department of incoming funds into your client account.
With a few clicks, the Accounts Department can post the monies due to LEAP once they are received into your bank with no need to re-key any data, and through the inbuilt auditing, you can easily track what was requested and by whom, giving you complete transparency over your accounts processes.
More information is available through the LEAP Help Centre.
New Call Logging App
Our fully integrated Call Logging app for LEAP Desktop delivers an easy-to-use centralised register for all inbound telephone enquiries. Simple to use, easily capture the nature of an enquiry, allocate it to a Card or Matter and assign it to a staff member.
Through the integration with LEAP’s notifications, staff instantly know whether they must attend to an enquiry. Each call captures the detail of the enquiry, with a full audit trail of the changes made and the status of the call.
Find out more by following the link to the LEAP Help Centre.
Critical Dates enhancement
Managing Critical Dates has been made more user friendly with the introduction of Calculated Critical Dates.
This means that it is possible to set future dates based on their dependency on other Critical Dates.
For example, the Limitation Date in an RTA matter is now automatically calculated based on the Accident Date, or the claimants age if a minor.
Read more about the Critical Dates update.
LEAP Desktop 2.3
This update includes many new features in most key areas of the product.
Including Google integration in address and company searches, the tools to draft pre-defined clauses for use in precedents, improved fee allocation, enhanced document sharing and negative interest rates (Republic of Ireland only).
More information is available on the LEAP Help Centre about this new version.
New LEAP iPad App
The new iPad app has been specifically built for the new iPadOS released by Apple, bringing many new productivity features including an integrated calendaring and a much slicker user experience.
Find out more, by follwing the link to the LEAP Help Centre.
Announcing our new LawConnect App
LEAP's document sharing and collaboration tool, LawConnect, is now available for both iOS and Android.
This new app will let your clients view and manage their documents, electronically sign forms, pay their bills and check their client funds balance from anywhere via their mobile phone or tablet. They can also upload documents, great for scanning in ID during electronic onboarding.
If you’d like to find out more, please head to the LEAP Help Centre for more information.
LEAP Marketplace
The LEAP Marketplace is the best place to find apps that integrate with LEAP. Offering a wide range of apps that add functionality to matters, cards and more, the LEAP Marketplace lets you extend LEAP’s capabilities to suit your firm.
Anyone with a LEAP account can browse, enable and manage apps within LEAP. Get started with the LEAP Marketplace by browsing all available apps below.
See all apps in the Marketplace.
Your Finances
Your Finances simplifies the collection of financial data from your client for the Financial Statement (Form E), capturing all the data required to complete the form online through LawConnect.
Your client can complete this at their own pace, collecting the required information as it is obtained before submitting it to you for review. Once complete, this data synchronises to LEAP letting you produce a Form E that your client can sign electronically before submission to court.
BundlePro
BundlePro allows law firms to create professional, presentable, cost effective and fully text searchable electronic PDF bundles for the courts in minutes.
By automatically converting large volumes of documents into a single PDF, complete with an auto-generated paginated index, bookmarks, hyperlinks and a cover page you can save time and money with BundlePro. Once a bundle has been created, an automatic disbursement can be generated and saved to the corresponding LEAP matter.
Version 2.1 released
LEAP 2.1 introduces a fresh look and feel to Cards, making them much easier to use. We’ve also added shortcuts so you can call or text your client quickly from the desktop, and you can also assign photographs to cards.
We have also updated the way LEAP and Xero integrate. It is now much easier to manage the journals LEAP generates and control the behaviour of the link.
This version also sees improvements to document management, document generation, invoicing and special fees. More information is available on the LEAP Help Centre.
A new look Help Centre
The LEAP Help Centre has received a new look and feel, making it easier for you to find any articles you need.
To start, click on Knowledge Base and begin browsing the articles. If you can't find what you need, click the Chat button in the bottom right of the Knowledge Base.
Automate with Workflow
Workflow by ILAW is an automation toolkit for LEAP Desktop that lets you build and monitor a predefined way of working. The intuitive drag and drop Workflow Builder makes building a process really easy, and you can build differing outcomes by using questions. My Work Items area lets you work across all of your workflows from one central to-do list.
This new integration suits larger firms keen to automate transaction based work such as Conveyancing. You can find out more online or by contacting sales@ilawsoftware.com.
Apportionment for England and Ireland
Apportionment Statements are available for both England & Wales and Ireland. These can be found in the Completion Statement and Closing Statement folders under Sale and Purchase for both jurisdictions.
Information sheets are available for England & Wales and Ireland are available from the LEAP Help Centre.
Crown Court update
We have implemented a new set of fixed fee and activity codes in relation to the Crown Court guidance issued for Scheme 12. These changes apply to cases with a Representation Order on or after the 17th September 2020 and have been applied to both AGFS and LGFS where applicable.
We also implemented changes to ensure claims are accepted and recorded within the Crown Court upload, and we have added a new set of fixed fees for AGFS Cracked Trial claims.
Monitor your KPI
We are pleased to announce a new integration with legal BI specialists, RedRain. Through their RedView product, you can understand your firm’s health at a glance. You can quickly see trends with new business, understand your pipeline and performance and easily monitor unbilled fees and disbursements.
Read more about Redview here.
The Family Best Practice Standard
The LEAP Family Best Practice Standard goes live! Following the huge success of the conveyancing accreditation, LEAP has now launched a family badge, aimed at encouraging and ensuring a gold standard in this area of law, to provide comfort to clients and 3rd party referrers.
Find out more about the Family Best Practice Standard and how you can achieve and benefit from the gold standard in practising family law.
New Financial Statement (Form E)
We’ve created a new interactive PDF version of the Financial Statement which is available in your Forms and Precedents library. This new form pulls data from your LEAP matter, such as the clients details, and it allows you to enter financial data directly into the document.
Further integration with Microsoft Teams
LEAP Mobile and LEAP Web both now support document and matter sharing through Microsoft Teams, and you can also now schedule Microsoft Teams meetings through LEAP Desktop.
Read more about FaceTime with LEAP Mobile for iOS and start video calling your clients today.
Communicating effectively in a disaggregated workplace is critical to success in these unprecedented times, and through our integration with Microsoft Teams you can share documents or matters for review or discussion directly from your LEAP matter.
Find out how to use to improve your efficiency while working remotely.
Video call your clients
Our iOS app has been updated to include FaceTime. You can now video call your clients and other parties from your iPhone or iPad, and you can also time record these calls. We’ve also included a scheduling feature, so you can invite your client to a prearranged FaceTime meeting through a text or iMessage.
Read more about FaceTime with LEAP Mobile for iOS and start video calling your clients today.
Learn how to work from anywhere with LEAP Web
The LEAP University now includes lessons explaining how to work from any connected device without installed software through LEAP Web. With courses across Matter, Card and Document Management, you can also learn how to complete financial postings and time recording.
Work remotely with ease using any device by following our tutorials on LEAP University.
Get paid quickly
RapidPay's Payment Reminders is a fantastic addition to LEAP. It automates the collection of bad debt, using reminders sent to your debtors via email or text at intervals as defined by you. Debtors simply click on the link sent in the email or text and make payment online through the RapidPay payment gateway.
Schedule and automate your debt recovery using RapidPays Payment Reminders.
Introducing LEAP CRM
LEAP CRM provides a centralised location to manage all leads into the firm, including converting them to cards within LEAP once you have qualified the lead and wish to proceed. This, alongside our Client Intake Forms that let prospective clients and referrers create draft matters that can be converted to real matters in seconds, are only available through the LEAP Portal.
Introducing 2x
A brand new version of our LEAP Desktop application delivering a fantastic modern user interface with considerable gains in usability including multi-window support, enhanced document management, invoicing improvements, better notifications, new reports and notifications of updates to Forms and Precedents, plus a lot more.
Learn more about LEAP 2x.
LEAP Web
Receive notifications, create precedents and folders, insert fields into documents and duplicate documents in the latest significant update to LEAP Web, our browser app that lets you work from any connected device.
Learn more about the latest update to LEAP Web.
"Alexa, open LEAP..."
Capture time and fees with just your voice with our new LEAP Assistant for Amazon’s Alexa devices.
Learn more about the LEAP Assistant and Amazon Alexa.
Record activities using your Apple and Android Watch
Our new WatchOS and WearOS apps give you the flexibility to capture time anywhere at any time, making you more productive by capturing even more billable time.
Share from anywhere
Share documents securely from any connected device with the introduction of LawConnect on LEAP Web, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Learn more about LawConnect on Android, iPad/iPhone and Web.
A new digital learning platform
Begin your learning journey with the LEAP University. Access online courses that take you from the basics of LEAP through to complex features such as Legal Aid, and take assessments and earn certificates to show your progress.
Simpler navigation in LawConnect
New look LawConnect, making it much more simple for users to find documents shared by their lawyers and navigate between documents. The platform has also been updated to be optimised for mobile, and logon and registration simplified.
By Lawyers
Integration with By Lawyers, the global publisher of legal guides, commentaries and precedents ensuring up to date legal guidance within your matter.
- Estate accounts added to the Probate app, utilising the data entered in the IHT400 to generate simple Estate Account statements saved to directly to the matter.
Rapidpay
Receive monies directly into LEAP with integrated credit and debit card receipting through our RapidPay solution.
- User interface re-designed to simplify navigation, improve Office integration and support Legal Aid matter creation.
- An integrated LEAP Probate App to simplify the creation of the IHT400 and associated schedules.
Zylpha
Integration with Zylpha, the market leading document bundling solution.
- N260 LEAP App, simplifying the creation of the Statement of Costs (Summary Assessment).
- Simplified Inheritance Tax calculation through the IHT205 Document Assistant.
- New, updated reports to improve accuracy and management oversight.
Create matters from the palm of your hand.
Introducing LEAP University
Get the best out of your investment in LEAP with the LEAP University, our online learning course covering the basics of LEAP including accounts.
- Simplify your bank reconciliation and automate payments with our integrated RapidPay payments platform.
- Reporting introduced across Legal Aid matters and financial data.
- Enhanced security through Two Factor Authentication, preventing unauthorised access to LEAP from unauthorised devices.
- Create cards on the go from your contacts, or directly into LEAP.
- Playback audio saved to your LEAP correspondence.
Version 1.17
- File PDF’s straight to the LEAP matter from Adobe.
- Capture Legal Aid time while in Microsoft Office.
- Improved notifications when LEAP Forms and Precedents are updated.
- Litigation Electronic Bill of Costs introduced (Precedent S).
- Manage RTA claims through integration with the Claims Portal.
- Additional Crown Court billing support added to Legal Aid (AGFS).
Introducing eSignature with LEAP
LEAP’s new eSignature service now enables you to electronically sign forms and documents on the go. Save time and select a signature that has already been saved to your account.
Version 1.16
- Manage debt through the integrated credit control mailings functionality.
- Improved Compliance Reporting, including Undertakings.
- Run a float in LEAP (Scotland only).
- Search across all documents, including partial matches.
- Integrated searching in Scotland through Infotrack.
- Submit eCRM7 claims to the LAA (Legal Aid).
LEAP launches in the Republic of Ireland
Delivering software across all platforms and a comprehensive Forms and Precedents library.
Version 1.15
- Notify your colleagues of important matters within LEAP.
- Crown Court billing introduced to Legal Aid (LGFS and POCA).
Improved scanning capabilities
Scan and save documents directly to the matter from your mobile.
- Create, edit and save documents, Forms and Precedents on an iPad.
- Simplified email account linking (Android).
- Multi-track litigation budgeting (Precedent H).
- Manage Criminal and Civil Legal Aid matters on LEAP through the new Legal Aid App, including time and disbursement recording, invoicing, submissions and supporting Forms.
- Download and upload documents in any format with LawConnect.
- Support for the Land Transaction Tax introduced (Wales only).
- Ideas Hub launched, an online public platform to share ideas on how to improve our products.
Version 1.14
- Capture marketing consent and provide electronic copies of personal data with integrated GDPR tools.
- Assign matters to Reporting Groups, enabling financial reporting against user definable groups.
- Store documents, such as ID, against Cards.
- Create PDFs from correspondence stored on a matter.
- Download documents to your local machine directly from LEAP.
- Android updated with a new look and feel, and improved functionality to bring feature parity with the iOS Apps.
- Improved email and document management, including the ability to add signatures to emails sent from LEAP and tools to import documents.
- Firm level financial actions, including Bank Reconciliation and banking, added.
Version 1.12
- Create Purchase Orders in LEAP, enabling disbursements to be paid via the Purchase order function of Xero.
- Search across more fields when identifying possible Conflict of Interest.
- Find matters more easily through a clients full name in the Matter List.
- Parkers Wills Clauses added to the LEAP Forms and Precedents library.
LEAP launches in Scotland
Delivering software across all platforms and a comprehensive Forms and Precedents library.
Version 1.11
- Improved usability of the Bank Reconciliation.
- Tools to search and compare documents.
- Responsive layout introduced, making LawConnect easier to use on any device.
LEAP launches in Northern Ireland
Delivering software across all platforms and a comprehensive Forms and Precedents library.
- Work is no longer a place, it is an activity. Manage your matters on any device with the LEAP365 suite across desktop, browser and mobile.
Version 1.10
- Browser based Bank Reconciliation with improved functionality including searching.
- Security controls added for all LEAP reports.
- Advanced invoicing options introduced, including filters to invoice disbursements only by type.
- Share documents from the LEAP matter electronically using LawConnect, a document collaboration platform.
Version 1.9
- Pin important correspondence to the top of the matter.
- Rename documents generated from LEAP when saving back to the matter.
- Capture time recording when receiving emails in Outlook.
Version 1.8
- New look and feel, modernising the user interface.
- Assign unique numbers to documents to aid document management.
- Improved document preview designed to make reviewing documents easier and consistent.
- Native iPad app introduced, providing more functionality and a larger working environment than on an iPhone.
Version 1.7
- Automatic and configurable archive numbering ensures unique archive numbers are used.
- Capture time at matter or client specific rates with Special Fees.
- User definable aging periods introduced across LEAP and reports.
Version 1.6
- Service synchronisation notifications introduced, making it easier to identify whether a user is connected to the LEAP servers.
- Time and Fees Recorded by Staff report added, making it easier to track staff performance.
Version 1.5
- Document management improvements, making it easier to search and preview documents.
- Send SMS from LEAP using an Email to SMS provider.
- Reconcile Infotrack searches in LEAP.
Time record directly from your smartphone
Enabling you to record time on the go with ease and accuracy.
Version 1.4
- Manage Criminal and Civil Legal Aid matters on LEAP, including time and disbursement recording, invoicing, submissions, reports and supporting Forms.
- Order searches directly from the matter with integrated Infotrack searching.
Version 1.3
- Capture time when generating documents and emails through Office.
- Simplify Card creation with integrated Postcode lookups.
Version 1.2
- Create recurring matters, simplifying the matter opening process when doing the same type of work.
- Custom fields introduced, allowing users to capture bespoke information in LEAP.
- Send bulk mailings to clients, such as an “Office is closed” notification.