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Brookers and juniorPartner Team Up
Brookers Ltd today announced that they are now working with jPartner
Systems Ltd and will be distributing and supporting the juniorPartner
(jP) law practice management software from November 2003.
"We are very pleased to be working with jPartner Systems Ltd and
excited about the opportunities this presents. This development is designed
to build on our success with other technology that we have developed
for New Zealand law firms including Notes, Knowledge Integration Solutions
for Extranets and Intranets, and Firmsite. Notes is an online first
in New Zealand and provides our customers with the ability to add comments
to their online products and link them to their own internal resources
or files. jP was a natural choice as we share similar values - flexibility,
continuous innovation for the customer's sake, and an absolute commitment
to our customers by providing them with the best training, technical
support and service. This will enable us to provide New Zealand law
firms with a compelling and highly competitive combination of unmatched
depth and breadth of legal information and a flexible, user-friendly
law practice management system," said Neil Story, Managing Director
of Brookers Ltd.
jP is a respected and highly competitive integrated practice management
system for small-to-medium sized law practices. It was designed by New
Zealand lawyers for New Zealand lawyers and provides lawyers with the
ability to:
Graeme Ramsay, Managing Director of jPartner Systems Ltd, said today
"I am delighted to be working with the Brookers team. Our commitment
to serving the exacting and changing needs of the legal profession has
created a long and proud tradition of client-focused software innovation.
Brookers shares these goals and traditions which is why we chose the
Brookers team to be our preferred business partner. Already we have
some exciting software developments in the pipeline. I look forward
to the further growth of juniorPartner and the opportunity to introduce
jP to a wider range of law firms."
Links to Brookers and DSL Publishing CD and online information, including
Brookers Law Directory, will be available within jP in the New
Year. Brookers customers will be able to include any of the five modules
currently available as part of the jP practice management software in
their existing information supply agreement. Customers who do not currently
have an information supply agreement with Brookers can find out more
by contacting their local Brookers Account Manager or Brookers Customer
Care team on service@brookers.co.nz
or 0800 10 60 60.
Contact: Geoff Adlam, General Manager - Marketing and Business Development
0800 10 60 60 Geoff.Adlam@thomson.com
www.brookers.co.nz
www.jpartner.co.nz
About Brookers Ltd
Brookers Ltd, based in Wellington and Auckland, is a leading provider
of information to the New Zealand legal and regulatory market and a
part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory.
Thomson Legal & Regulatory (www.tlrg.com)
provides e-information solutions to legal, tax, accounting, intellectual
property, compliance and business professionals around the world. Thomson
Legal & Regulatory has strong market positions in North America,
Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Thomson Legal & Regulatory
is the largest market group within The Thomson Corporation (TSE: TOC),
a global e-information solutions company serving the business and professional
marketplace.
About jPartner Systems Ltd
jPartner Systems Ltd, based in Auckland, is the developer of juniorPartner.
juniorPartner has been around since 1989. Previously called Author,
juniorPartner was developed into a true multi-platform (Macintosh &
Windows) relational database in 1993 and re-named juniorPartner. Also
known as jP. jP was the first NZ Trust Account program on Windows. This
product longevity together with the increasing user-base spread throughout
NZ and now this association with Brookers Ltd. ensures juniorPartner
will continue to develop meet the changing and growing needs of NZ law
practices.
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