legalsupportnetwork.co.uk (LSN) is a community website for professionals shaping the operational, business services and support agendas of law firms and solicitors practices throughout the UK. FWBS is a leading networkpartner within the community, providing market-leading systems for modern legal businesses.

November 16, 2009 saw the 9th LSN Networking Event to be hosted in the capital with well over two hundred law firm professionals in attendance, which clearly proves that the event is becoming a highlight of many calendars within the business services sector.

Read about the event and how FWBS made one lucky person’s evening extra special by presenting them with the prize in the draw.

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FWBS, the UK’s leading supplier of innovate software solutions for the legal profession, is the IT solution behind winning law firm Watkins & Gunn.

At the recent Law Society excellence awards FWBS Matter Centre customer Watkins & Gunn Solicitors scooped the Lexcel award for Excellence in practice management.

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FWBS, recognised as the legal market’s innovators launched the first truly intuitive, matter-centric, integrated front-office system called Matter Centre. Matter Centre provides professionals and their support staff with a comprehensive view of their clients, tasks, workloads and all related documents and reference information, via a single click within Microsoft Office.  Interwoven is a global leader in content management solutions. Interwoven WorkSite enables companies to organise, share, and secure documents and e-mail and other business records to increase individual and team productivity and meet regulatory compliance goals. Both best-of-breed applications feature some of the tightest integration in the industry with Microsoft® Office applications including Office Outlook®, Office Excel® and Office Word®, and Microsoft server technology such as Windows Vista, SharePoint® Portal Server and SQL Server.

Software developer FWBS needed to maintain technology leadership while improving the productivity of its employees. The company installed the Windows Vista® Business operating system across the organization. Using new productivity tools in Windows Vista Business, FWBS is reducing development times and providing cutting-edge technologies to customers. New security features are also helping safeguard important data and avoid downtime.

Microsoft last week released Visual Studio 2008 to manufacturing and made it immediately available to MSDN subscribers. Microsoft will formally introduce the new toolset on Feb. 27 along with the Windows Server 2008 operating system and SQL Server 2008 database. For Visual Studio 2008, however, the gala will be a mere formality.

Visual Studio 2008 also comes with Visual Studio Tools for Office, which can be used to customize Office's ribbon interface, build new Office user interface controls, and create forms that stylistically duplicate those used by Outlook. "Before, we'd have to trick some Win APIs, try and get around some back doors, and do it without being fully supported by Microsoft," says Mike Walker, CTO of FWBS, which writes legal software that adds functionality to Office.

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During the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007, S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp, said Redmond will released Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET (News - Alert) Framework 3.5 by the end of November 2007.

Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 are expected to enable developers at all levels to create connected applications that offer compelling user experiences for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, mobile devices and the web. Soma also unveiled plans to open new opportunities for Visual Studio partners, as well as to deliver new tools and resources for developers, including a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft Sync Framework and new capabilities for Popfly Explorer.
 

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FWBS, a leading United Kingdom software developer and Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, specialises in IT solutions for corporate professionals, including law firms. The company aims to enhance the business value of its case management software by integrating the latest Microsoft technologies and delivering new feature sets to its customers. To stay ahead of its competitors, FWBS integrated Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 Team System, Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008, and Windows Server® 2008 with its core OMS Matter Centre product. The company has reduced development time by 20 per cent and increased programmer productivity. It can also deliver new features to clients more efficiently, enhancing the end-user experience and simplifying IT management.

Based in central England, Franklins Solicitors LLP provides counsel in civil and criminal litigation and corporate commercial and property services. The firm employs 130, including 55 lawyers, of whom 10 are partners. Operating out of two offices, one in Northampton and another in Milton Keynes, the firm have generated U.S. $8 million in revenue for 2002. In recent years, Franklins has come to rely on an award-winning case and office management system developed by Microsoft Certified Partner FWBS Ltd.

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