Lawyal Solicitors is one of Australia’s first virtual law firms who offer legal advice online for Australian banking and financial institutions and companies. The provision of legal services is regarded as one of the last big industries that have not been disrupted by online providers and, recognising this opening in the market, we (Craig and Leonie Chapman, the founders of Lawyal) decided to develop and build a bespoke legal practice management tool. This new legal practice management software had the vision of automating the operations of a virtual law firm through its ability to instruct legal consultants to client engagement via unique portals, managed through expertise categories linked to lawyers and matters (“Expertise Categories”). By using the platform, …show more content…
This, coupled with the growth in alternative model firms and virtual law firms (labelled ‘New Law’) across Australia, has created a gap in legal practice management software needed to enable a lawyer to work for multiple law practices through one convenient, secure and compliant portal.
Summary:
The technology (software) is core to the invention, and the target market for the invention is legal services. The software is a completely new platform built entirely in-house and has not ever been used by any person or firm (including Lawyal, who currently operates on a different prototype platform built in-house for internal development, experimental and testing purposes), nor has the new platform been demonstrated or viewed by any person other than its creators.
With regards to the target market, our intended customers are:
(1) Small to medium law firms, wanting to offer more flexibility and remote working for their lawyers and to drive fixed costs (and therefore client costs)
Small law firms offer the paralegal a chance to work in many different areas of law and allow them to provide many different services while working on...
The dispute occurred in Victoria between a registered company, Tallerman & Co Pty Ltd ("the plaintiff") and an incorporated company, Nathan's Merchandise Pty Ltd. ("the defendant), where both parties operated their business. Two previous binding contracts (orders No. 58 and No. M57) were made in communications on 14th May 1951 and 2nd August 1951 respectively, each for the sale by the plaintiff to the defendant of 1,000,000 Hungarian .22 bullets. A consignment of 1,800,000 bullets for the above orders was dispatched from Sydney to the defendant by rail on the 12th February 1952 and was received by a carrier employed by the defendant in Melbourne who stored the bullets in the defendant's warehouse, where they resided for three days. Claiming that under the contractual terms, those bullets should only be delivered when requested, the defendant refused to take the delivery, and thus reconsigned the bullets back to Sydney by rail. On 3rd March 1952 a letter by the plaintiff's solicitor was sent out requiring the defendant to accept the "contractual goods" and that otherwise necessary steps would be taken to enforce the plaintiff's legal rights. On 6th March the defendant's solicitors responded by reasserting the stance that it had been settled from the start that delivery of bullets should be made only when the defendant required them, to fulfill its customers' orders. In addition the defendant's solicitors raised the further point that the location of delivery in Melbourne was inconsistent with the contractual terms.
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