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# Access Legal

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> Legal software built on 30 years of UK legal expertise, with AI that saves fee earners up to five hours every week.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **2.8/5** by 6 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Access Legal

Over 3,500 UK law firms trust Access Legal. Here's what that looks like in practice. 

50% more output
Curtis Law increased the volume of work their fee earners could handle by over 50% without adding headcount. The same team, doing significantly more.

Billing time cut from 6 days to 1
Pinkney Grunwells reduced their billing process from six working days to just one. That's five days back every single month. 

80% fewer client update calls 
Firms using our client onboarding app report up to an 80% reduction in time spent on client calls. Clients get real-time visibility. Your team gets their time back.

20% reduction in cost per case 
Auxillis cut their cost per case by 20% after switching to Access Legal. A direct, measurable impact on the firm's bottom line.

4 hours of IT resource saved every week
Curtis Law also freed up approximately four hours of IT resource per week, redirected from maintenance to strategic development.  

92% of ID checks completed immediately 
Client onboarding that used to take days now happens in hours. 92% of ID checks are completed immediately, so cases get moving faster.

Documents returned within 24 hours  
Clients return documents to lawyers within 24 hours on average, cutting one of the most common sources of delay in any matter.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **2.8/5** | 6 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 3.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 1.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 2.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 3.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 40% | (4/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Fonn
- **Location**: Colchester, UK
- **Founded**: 1996

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing Details**: Please contact us for a free consultation and pricing details.
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom

## Features

- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Archiving & Retention
- Audit Trail
- Automatic Backup
- Automatic Billing
- Bank Reconciliation
- Billable Items Tracking
- Billing & Invoicing
- Billing Rate Management
- CRM
- Calendar Management
- Case Management
- Case Notes
- Client Management

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Chat

## Category

- [Legal Billing Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/121/legal-billing/software)

## Related Categories

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- [Legal Document Management Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/763/legal-document-management/software)
- [Law Practice Management Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/120/law-practice-management/software)
- [Legal Case Management Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/124/legal-case-management/software)

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3. [Xero](https://www.getapp.co.nz/software/1671/xero) — 4.4/5 (3316 reviews)
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## Reviews

### "Scott’s review" — 4.0/5

> **Scott** | *22 August 2021* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The way it can sync across many computers
> 
> **Cons**: That you have to depend if the WiFi signal strength of the place the platform is ran

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### "Church for All People" — 5.0/5

> **Spencer** | *4 December 2020* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: This software is most accessible for churches including preparing worship slides, teaching material and updates. Ease of use, font and format features make this software excellent.
> 
> **Cons**: At times the downloading content in the app doesn’t always connect my presentation but overall this is a good resource.
> 
> Solving online live streaming issues with ease and making church available for all.

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### "Becoming disillusioned" — 3.0/5

> **Paul** | *22 March 2021* | Law Practice | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It provided a groundbreaking case management system for solicitors companies of all sizes. I have used it almost since the product came on the market. It works and provides efficiencies across a number of areas of legal practice, not restricted to the law, put to matters such as account/finance/practice management
> 
> **Cons**: It is complicated to adapt and requires programming skills from a staff member, Or a specialist employee/IT technician with knowledge of pro claim. There appear to be better solutions on the market which are easier to use, which also provide better value. Proclaim requires a monthly support fee which is extremely expensive and has been ramping up without justification year after year, whilst at the same time reducing the level of support provided by Eclipse
> 
> Excellent, at first, but has become increasingly disappointing and exploitative of a client base that cannot easily switch case management systems without a great deal of expense and time. I feel I am stuck with a company that knows I will find it difficult to move on and intends to exploit that position by squeezing as much cash out of me for support fees, whilst reducing the support it provides.

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### "Very disappointed with the software" — 2.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *9 January 2019* | Law Practice | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The functionality of the software is good. It has a huge amount of capability. The workflows are good, but you have to work out where to put the data for it really work properly. The Report on Title functionality within the Conveyancing module is probably one of its best features.
> 
> **Cons**: The customer support is dreadful. You frequently have to wait days if not weeks for issues to be resolved. Even then you find the job has not been completed. They also do not communicate internally at all.

Every time you want to improve the software to make it more suited to your firm's needs it is incredibly expensive. It makes you question what you actually pay the support for. 

You have to update your forms manually yourself.

This software is allegedly suitable for firms of all shapes and sizes. However, unless you are a large firm with a large budget with an IT department who can make the relevant updates, avoid it\!

The accounts package is overly complicated especially compared to modern software like Xero.
> 
> I regret changing to this product. The whole process has been unnecessarily complicated, arduous and stressful.

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### "Awful. Avoid at all cost" — 1.0/5

> **Riffat** | *14 November 2022* | Law Practice | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The workflow feature it good.  Apart from this
> 
> **Cons**: Everything.  I think the concept is great but that is where it stops. Incompetent at all levels and once tied in they don’t care.
> 
> Dreadful

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