Case Study: Anthony Gold Solicitors achieves compliant, efficient costs management with Civica Prescient+

Civica teams up with beta site for costs management project

Anthony Gold Solicitors faced the new costs management requirements introduced by the Jackson reforms (live 1 April 2013) and needed their case management tools to support completing, agreeing and tracking costs budgets alongside actual spends. Civica partnered with Anthony Gold Solicitors as a beta site to test and refine a special release of its Prescient+ system so the firm could meet the legislative changes and avoid the increasing risk of penalties for non‑compliance.

Civica reconfigured Prescient+ with targeted costs‑management features — matter flags, costs budget screens, mandatory capture of time and disbursements by phase, warnings when actuals approach estimates, and Precedent H reporting — validated through Anthony Gold Solicitors’ testing and internal QA. The enhancements give firms clearer budget vs actual visibility, help ensure compliance with budgeting rules (reducing the risk of sanctions), and are delivered with free upgrades, an e‑learning module and user guide from Civica.

Anthony Gold Solicitors

David Marshall

Managing Partner