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Interactive PDFs

Have you tried one our Interactive PDFs yet?  

They fully automate from your LEAP matter quickly, are easily editable or updated and contain no lengthy FILLINS – just one dialog window (when applicable) for fast and easy completion.

The Interactive PDFs are easily identifiable from the Word versions of the forms by the PDF icon within your LEAP Forms Folders:

Creating a lockable version of the form with the Print to LEAP function 

If you need to send the form externally and do not want the data altered by your client or other parties, you can create a lockable version as follows:

  1. Open the PDF
  2. Click Print or Ctrl+P
  3. Select Print To LEAP as the printer option
  4. Select Print (a separate PDF will generate and the Printed Document window will open)
  5. Enter a Document name
  6. Select the matter
  7. Tick Create New Time/Fee (if needed)
  8. Click OK

For more information on how to use Interactive PDFs in LEAP, please refer to the LEAP Community article on Using Interactive PDFs.

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SA – Legal Rates

The following fees have been updated as at 1 July 2020:

  • District Court of South Australia – Civil
  • District Court of South Australia – Criminal
  • Magistrates Court of South Australia – Civil
  • Magistrates Court of South Australia – Sheriff & Criminal
  • Supreme Court of South Australia – Civil
  • Supreme Court of South Australia – Probate
  • Land Services

Further fees will be updated as they come to hand.

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SA – Family Provision Claims matter type

Following client feedback, the following Critical Dates have been added to Calendar & Tasks in the Family Provision Claims matter type:

  • Summons filed
  • First Directions Date
  • Further Directions Date
  • Hearing Date

If you have feedback on this matter type, please provide it here.

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SA – RevenueSA forms

The following form has been added to the RevenueSA folder and shortcut to the Family Law Property/Financial Settlement and Property & Children matter types:

  • Statutory declaration – pursuant to Section 71CA [LL-SA-RSA-010]

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SA – Uniform Civil Rules (UCR) new forms

In preparation for the new UCR forms, the following changes have been made to the relevant SA litigation matter types:

Matter type changes include:

Client, Other side and Other side’s solicitor Substitutions to all provide for Applicant, Applicant’s solicitor, Appellant, Appellant’s solicitor, Respondent and Respondent’s solicitor in accordance with the Uniform Civil Rules 2020.  The Substitution defaults will be set to Client = Applicant, Other side = Respondent, Other side’s solicitor = Respondent’s solicitor.  The UCR forms are coded for Applicant/Respondent and where applicable Appellant.

Interested Party card added to the matter default table types.

Third Party card added to the matter default table types.

Court details table updated as follows:

  • Full Court or Minor Civil new drop-down list
  • List type new drop-down list which includes Building & Construction List, Commercial List, Corporations List, Dust Diseases List, Fast Track List, Possessions List, Special Classification List, ​Personal Injuries​ List
  • Removal of Division and Registry fields from the table.

Debt Recovery Matter type changes include:

In addition to the above matter type changes, the Garnishee table type has also been added as a default table to the Debt Recovery matter type.

Firm Details updates:

Addition of  “F Code” in Firm Details for South Australia.

New UCR Forms:

The following new forms are now available in the Uniform Civil Rules (UCR) folder for completion in LEAP and either uploaded directly to Court SA or lodged over the counter (whichever action is applicable to each form):

Pre-Action

[Read more…]

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SA – Uniform Civil Rules (UCR) new forms

New UCR Forms:

The new forms will be available in LEAP in accordance with the Court’s proposed time frame of 18 May 2020.

Matter type changes:

In preparation for the new forms, the following minor changes will simultaneously be made to the relevant SA litigation matter types:

Client, Other side and Other side’s solicitor Substitutions to all provide for Applicant, Applicant’s solicitor, Respondent and Respondent’s solicitor in accordance with the Uniform Civil Rules 2020.  The Substitution defaults will be set to Client = Applicant, Other side = Respondent, Other side’s solicitor = Respondent’s solicitor.  The UCR forms are coded for Applicant/Respondent.

Interested Party card added to the matter default table types.

Court details table updated as follows:

  • Full Court or Minor Civil new drop-down list
  • List type new drop-down list which includes Building & Construction List, Commercial List, Corporations List, Dust Diseases List, Fast Track List, Possessions List, Special Classification List, ​Personal Injuries​ List

Keep an eye on the forms blog for notification of the new forms.

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SA – Matter Information Sheet hyperlinks

We have created hyperlinks for all Matter Information Sheets currently available in LEAP Community.  The Information Sheets are How to articles to assist you on matter setup and common form usage.  Information Sheets that are matter specific are located in the LEAP Forms folder and Information Sheets that are relevant to a particular form are located immediately preceding the form.

Matter Information Sheets hyperlinks for SA are available as follows: [Read more…]

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Important changes to your Sale and Purchase matter types

We have made some necessary changes to your Sale and Purchase matter types for improved efficiency in your conveyancing matters.

Why?

We are continuing to work on a large project to change the functionality behind our forms to use our Word App entitled LEAP Document Manager (LDM).  This change is necessary to make our forms compatible with Word Online.

These changes are in preparation of future enhancements to our LDM versions of the Settlement Adjustment Sheets/Statement of Adjustments (SAS), with the NSW SAS LDM due for release firstly shortly.  Keep an eye on the Forms Blog for release notification.  These enhanced versions will contain a time-efficient two-way write back functionality, whereby Directions (cheques) created within the LDM will automate directly to your LEAP matter and vice versa.

The write back functionality can however only map to ONE location in your LEAP matter and that is the relevant Sale / Purchase Reconciliation table.  The Cheque Details table will therefore no longer default to any newly created matters.

Why write back to the Reconciliation table and NOT the Cheque details table? [Read more…]