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Legal Aid Online: The benefits and features that make legal aid easier

 

Benefits

Save time and money

  • faster processing of applications and accounts

Increase cash flow

  • faster payments

More efficient business

  • cut down on paperwork
  • more accurate information gathering
  • work at times convenient for you

Better service for clients

  • quicker decisions

Legal Aid Online is easy to use - you can see a short movie on how an advice and assistance application is made.

Features:

  • Available out with normal office hours

  • Dedicated helpline and email facility

  • Quick form filling - with pick lists and automatic filling in of previously given information so eliminating duplication of effort

  • Less errors and delays – as an electronic form can’t be sent if there is incomplete or incorrect information

  • Your administration staff can fill out and process web forms

  • Immediate – no need to rely on postal services

  • No need to send hard copies of applications to the Board. You simply print off a paper copy of a web application, your client signs it and you keep this in your office.

  • You can track progress from initial application to payment with information on all contact and decisions made.

 

Legal Aid Online makes it easier for you to make applications, and reduces bureaucracy. Some of the items that are input or calculated automatically for you:

  • time and line entries with automatic calculation of fees, linked to the Board’s fees tables
  • totals by fees, travel, court dues etc

  • allowances

  • contributions

  • repeat client details

  • your firm’s details

  • all data previously recorded - no re-typing.

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Items that you can process include:

  • Advice and assistance applications, increases and accounts
  • Civil Applications including principal application form
  • Review status of submitted applications and accounts

  • Update client information.

 

 

Why not try Legal Aid Online yourself to make the most of these benefits - find out now how to get started.

 

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