Internet Start-up moves into legal Domain

Internet start-up Domain Audit this month launched a domain name management system aimed at firms'
corporate and IP departments, some of which are managing vast numbers of domains and other digital assets for clients.
The product consolidates domain names into a single portfolio and provides a toolkit to help users in renewing domain names, registering new ones, monitoring domain names in which a client has an interest, but that belong to other people.
It also has a search facility for conducting multiple name searches in multiple locations and tools for
monitoring new internet domains under which the client should register its existing names and for dealing with disputes in foreign jurisdictions.
Domain Audit also offers website hosting and produces audit reports telling the user what names they own, related names they do not own and details of the owners.

Sitescope focuses on homecheck
Sitescope, a company set to become one of four government-approved content providers with access to the National Land Information Service, has launched Homecheck Pro, a website selling due diligence reports to solicitors.
The site has been set up to cash in on legislation that came into force on 1 April, making environmental searches an increasingly important part of the conveyancing process.
The £20-a-pop environmental reports are based on data supplied under licence from the Environment Agency, Ordnance Survey, the Valuation Office, the Health and Safety Executive and a number of other sources.
The reports, e-mailed to the user's desktop within five minutes of purchase, are backed up with
professional indemnity cover.

Matrix enters legal know-how market
Matrix Chambers is set to go head-to-head with legal publishing giants Butterworths, Jordans and Westlaw.
The chambers will launch a know-how module on the Human Rights Act in CD-rom format, in the next couple of weeks.
The module, written by Matrix's human rights expert Professor Conor Gearty, is based on recent training courses run by Gearty at Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Baker & McKenzie.
The established legal publishers have all announced human rights modules, written by prominent barristers.

Interface grows Iris
Interface Software has launched a new knowledge management tool to provide easy access to all internal information about a firm's clients, contacts, relationships, expertise and experience.
The Interface Relationship Intelligence Server (Iris) is an XML-based application server, powered by InterAction, the company's relationship management (CRM) application.
Information is extracted from other systems such as time and billing, accounting and human resources
applications. It reveals who knows who within the firm, what information is known and how.

Keystone posts net results
Keystone has announced the long-awaited UK launch of its Net Results financial management software
package, used by a quarter of the US' top 100 firms.
Net Results, whose developers were bought out by Keystone last year, is the only off-the-shelf package that automates the entire process of establishing how profitable clients are.
The package, which also measures the bottom-line financial contribution of an individual partner or fee earner, can be used in conjunction with
practice management systems other than Keystone, such as Elite and CMS.

Signifo unveils automated expenses solution
Another start-up, Signifo, has launched an automated solution for expense claims.
A claimant enters a claim using any internet browser, the approving manager receives notice of an expense claim by e-mail and, after approval, the finance department receives all approved claims in a standard format, for analysis and upload to the firm's accounts.
The remote-hosted application is designed to integrate with firms' accounting software and other back office systems.
The system does not allow for a great degree of customisation, but Signifo claims that, due to its simplicity, the system can be up and running within an hour.
The company promises that regular, free product upgrades will be implemented automatically.

DPS makes progress
DPS Software last month launched its new extranet product, DPS Progress.
It claims the package offers similar sophistication to the proprietary extranet systems developed by the UK's largest firms, such as Allen & Overy.
Users can assign a number of levels of access privileges to documents published over the web. The system also provides for similarly stepped access to online billing information.
DPS is set to create communal portal sites so that firms that do not have web hosting capability can use the system.