New legal budget software launched - at a budget price
Legal Budgets Ltd (01242 235996) this week launched its new Legal Budgets application. As the name implies, it is designed to help solicitors quantify budgets for case work, including counsel and expert witness fees, within minutes. The software's author Jim Diamond says the system can handle everything "from the smallest personal injury case to a multi-million pound commercial case" and has been designed to be used out of the box "so no formal training is required".

The system costs £575 pa (or £49.99 a month) and is being promoted at a series of roadshows around the country over the coming months. Given the price plus the fact the High Court has in recent months handed down a series of judgments in which firms failed to recover their full fees because they omitted to inform clients that costs were escalating above their original Rule 15 estimates, this application looks like a handy addition to any firm's software portfolio. www.legalbudgets.com