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The Law Society of New South Wales represents solicitors in NSW and provides professional development, specialist accreditation and practice-support resources. Its activities include conferences, regional and young-lawyer networks, publications and guidance for legal practices.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Law society

The representative body for the South Australian legal profession. It provides membership services, continuing professional development and on-demand education, ethics and practice support, a law library and professional publications. Its education program includes in-person and online seminars for legal practitioners.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Law society

The Law Society of Western Australia is a professional association for lawyers in WA. It provides member representation and support, professional education and networking events. Its CPD program includes in-person, online and on-demand learning, alongside Brief publications and a legal jobs board.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Law society

Conveyancing-specific practice management from the LEAP stable.

Task: Starting a practice

Firm size fit

Sole practitioner, Boutique

Deployment

Cloud

Modern cloud-based PMS purpose-built for Australian legal and conveyancing firms; certified trust accounting; PEXA integration; property search integration.

Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud

University provider of the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University

University of Queensland Law School — its public events and seminar program is open to practitioners, and much of it is free.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University law school

University of Sydney Law School — its public events and seminar program is open to practitioners, and much of it is free.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University law school

University of Tasmania Law — its public events and seminar program is open to practitioners, and much of it is free.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University law school

University provider of the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University

UNSW Law & Justice — its public events and seminar program is open to practitioners, and much of it is free.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University law school

UWA Law School — its public events and seminar program is open to practitioners, and much of it is free.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

University law school

Backup.

Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud

Legal technology consultancy providing software implementation, integration, training and ongoing support. It works with practice, document and legal operations platforms and offers additional tools developed for legal workflows.

Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Legal technology implementation, Integration, training and support.

The combined licensing, trust account and complaints regulator for the Victorian legal profession.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Licensing and complaints regulator

Westpac's solicitors statutory trust account, with state-specific onboarding requirements such as sighting a practising certificate.

Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Bank — statutory trust account

Australian practice management and trust accounting for small firms. Certified by the Law Society of NSW as a complying trust accounting system (certificate 12).

Task: Starting a practice

Firm size fit

Sole practitioner, Boutique

Business brokerage specialising in confidential sales, acquisitions and mergers of Australian law firms.

Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Practice sales and M&A advisory

General ledger and business accounting. Not trust-compliant — trust accounting is a separate system.

Task: Starting a practice

Pricing model

Subscription

Deployment

Cloud

Australian provider of legal trust and office bookkeeping, payroll, superannuation, BAS/IAS preparation, management reports and catch-up bookkeeping. Its ongoing service supports Xero, LEAP and Smokeball; the provider states that it does not support ongoing bookkeeping in MYOB, Clio or other practice-management platforms.

Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Legal trust and office bookkeeping