Legal Consulting Services

We help you focus on law, not the office

Are you implementing new practice management software?

Would you like to make better use of your existing practice management tools?

Would you like an experienced hand to assist with overload situations?

Would you like your practice to become more efficient?

Locus and Affinity specialist

Elizabeth Woodgate worked for Locus for seven years. Her experience includes:

• Development area testing and documenting software changes
• Working on Helpline
• Conducting Locus and Affinity training schools
• Developing documentation and course material
• Conducting software usage reviews
• Participated in pre-sales activities, including major tender presentations
  

‘Coal face’ experience

Elizabeth has worked with three major law firms in Australia and SE Asia as an Office Manager and Financial Accountant. She and the Ongoing Concern team have worked with more than 100 client firms. She is fully conversant with Locus and Affinity and can step in to a practice with no training required. The real benefits of working with someone who knows Locus, Affinity, LEAP or Perfect Balance and the business of a legal practice are many:

• Specialised software implementation project management
• Efficient and effective use of the practice management tools and reporting
• Consulting  to improve practice efficiencies
• Restructure your Locus or Affinity data for better reporting, more efficient usage
• Staff training

Flexible terms

Retainer arrangements for agreed services with documented outcomes can be supplied by arrangement. Ongoing Concern is also able to work on agreed hourly rates or other terms that may suit.

For an assessment of your needs and an idea of what Ongoing Concern can do for your business or practice, call us now on (02) 9698 9177

But don’t take our word for it…

‘We have worked with Liz and Ongoing Concern for several years now.  Our involvement with Liz began when we needed a trouble shooter to allow us to better understand Locus reports and to train our team. 

We soon determined that an alternative more sophisticated practice management system was now necessary.
 
Liz was integral in the tendering and pitching process we underwent to select the software package… Her independence, her depth and breadth  of knowledge of Locus and Affinity and perhaps even more importantly, law firm accounting and management practices, enabled us to discard the hype of the sales pitches and select the product most suitable for our needs. 
 
During the time Liz has worked with us we have come to rely on her direct, honest and unbiased advice in order to assist us continually improve our accounting and management reporting practices.  We look forward to the invaluable assistance she will no doubt provide during and following our Affinity implementation.’

Christine McDonald
Watts McCray

‘The thing that really strikes me about Liz Woodgate is the focus she brings to the task at hand. When she is working on my accounts she doesn’t let anything distract her and I have never picked up a single error.’

Cara Ghassemian
CG Lawyers

‘Ongoing give us absolute confidence in the accuracy of their bookkeeping input for us. They are smart, efficient and time-effective. As icing on the cake, they adapt to our timetable and are affordable.’

Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
Principal
BA Hons, Accredited Specialist (Commercial Litigation)
Griffith Nicholson Lawyers

‘Pigott Stinson have had a long professional relationship with Liz Woodgate and Ongoing Concern.  Liz is always flexible and able to fit into our timetable to help out whenever needed and has helped with the ongoing training of our staff over the years.’

Nitsa Reboutsikas
Practice Manager
PIGOTT STINSON