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Platform Products
Eclipse Legal Systems (Proclaim) Case Management
Proclaim is a cloud-based case management and practice management system for UK law firms, part of Eclipse Legal Systems (now an Access Group company). Serves 25,000+ legal professionals across UK, Ireland, Australia, and Canada. Law Society endorsed. UK Government Digital Marketplace listed. Key clients include Eversheds Sutherland and Co-operative Legal Services. Covers case management, practice management, matter management, process management, and workflow automation. 2,405 LinkedIn followers, 51-200 employees (170+ at Bradford HQ). Sectors served: legal, insurance, charitable, medical, government. Bradford, West Yorkshire headquarters. Product tour video on YouTube (Jul 2025). British Legal IT Forum coverage. Legal Futures coverage. Established UK market leader. Now branded as ‘Access Legal Proclaim’ under The Access Group. NOTE: Parent company is The Access Group; separate vendor entry exists as ‘access-legal’.
Company Info
- Parent: The Access Group (Access Legal)
- Team size: 51-200 employees (170+ at Bradford HQ)
- HQ: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
- Sector: Case Management / Practice Management
What We Haven’t Verified
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Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Access Legal is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Access Legal addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Small firm sends 50 engagement letters a month and each one requires manually creating the PDF, emailing it, waiting for the client to print-sign-scan-return, then following up twice — the whole process takes 3 days per client when it should take 3 minutes
Mid-size firm's managing partner wants to move from an on-premise case management system to the cloud but the migration feels impossible — 10 years of case data, custom templates, and workflow configurations need to come across without disrupting active matters or losing historical records
COLP, compliance manager, or operations director is tracking undertakings, breaches, insurer notifications, gifts, and file-audit findings across spreadsheets and inboxes, then scrambling every time Lexcel, insurers, or leadership ask for a current risk picture — the firm cannot prove what was fixed, what is still open, or which teams are repeating the same compliance mistakes.
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Access Legal
A UK law firm has outgrown older case-management software, is running too many disconnected systems for case work, compliance, client communication, and accounts, or wants to modernize from desktop/on-premise tools into a browser-based operating layer.
After Access Legal
Once matters, onboarding, and compliance data live inside Access Legal, the workflow extends into legal accounts, client communication, conveyancing searches, reporting, training, and wider firm-management oversight.
Integrations & hand-offs
Prospect / onboarding workflow -> case opening and guided workflows -> client communication and document exchange -> legal accounts / searches / compliance recording -> management reporting, audits, and ongoing firm operations.
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