- New Unity® global platform brings game-changing features to
legal practices worldwide that delivers an all-in-one, 360-degree
purpose-built practice management system
- Unity® global platform will provide everything a thriving
legal practice needs from client intake, due diligence, task and
workflow management, trust and firm accounting, to document
management and much more
- First-of-its-kind user experience designed to make it easier
for legal professionals worldwide to gain maximum value from their
relationship with Dye & Durham, helping them grow faster with
less effort
TORONTO, Sept. 12,
2023 /CNW/ - Dye & Durham Limited (TSX: DND)
("Dye & Durham" or the "Company"), a leading
provider of cloud-based, efficient workflow software for legal and
business professionals, today announced plans to
revolutionize the legal practice experience with the launch of
the Unity® global platform. The new Unity® global platform will
provide everything a legal practice needs, from client intake, due
diligence, task and workflow management, trust and firm accounting,
to document management and much more – in one single
destination.
The Unity® global platform provides a new way for legal
professionals worldwide to gain maximum value from Dye & Durham
solutions, helping them increase efficiency each day and making it
easier for them to grow faster and with less effort. Unity® global
will make it more streamlined for customers to access a range of
products and services in one location, with one login and on one
bill. The global nature of the platform ensures that users in all
markets benefit from the same one-stop user experience in every
market – a significant benefit for firms that operate in multiple
countries.
"Today's announcement fundamentally disrupts how legal
professionals access the software applications they rely on every
day to efficiently and profitably manage their business. Simply
put, we've brought together everything that a small or mid-sized
firm needs to operate into one single destination, removing
friction from every aspect of their business in a way that no other
legal technology provider can match," says Matthew Proud, Chief Executive Officer, Dye
& Durham. "By offering a single global platform for essential,
industry-leading software solutions, we're positioned more strongly
than ever to lead the legal technology industry."
The Unity® global platform and its suite of applications empower
Dye & Durham's more than 60,000 customers around the world to
seamlessly run their practice and focus on their clients and
growing their business, while automating or streamlining
time-intensive aspects of daily law firm management.
"With Unity® global, we believe we're bringing to market
the world's pre-eminent legal technology platform and creating
significant value for every legal practitioner that works with Dye
& Durham," adds Proud. "This is a transformative achievement
for both our customers and our business, and the new standard in
delivering world-class user experience for legal professionals
worldwide."
The Unity® global platform will launch in the United Kingdom and Canada in the fourth quarter of calendar 2023,
and Australia, Ireland and South
Africa in 2024.
Investing in Innovation
Dye & Durham is committed to being at the forefront of
innovation in legal technology and making it easier for legal
practices to modernize their practices through digital
transformation, better serving their clients and making it easier
to grow with less effort.
This year, Dye & Durham plans to invest more than
$60 million in product innovation,
software operations and research & development to further
enhance the industry-leading practice management capabilities in
Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and South
Africa, and to bring to market bold new innovations that
will continue to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of legal
professionals around the world.
Core to those investments is bringing to market new tools that
use artificial intelligence to improve everything from document
generation to client intake and client relationship management for
legal practices. Dye & Durham plans to bring to market its
first artificial intelligence-powered solution – an AI-powered
software module to enable legal professionals to produce wills with
greater ease, speed and reliability - before the end of 2023.
About Dye & Durham
Limited
Dye & Durham Limited provides premier practice management
solutions empowering legal professionals every day, delivers vital
data insights to support critical corporate transactions and
enables the essential payments infrastructure trusted by government
and financial institutions. The company has operations
in Canada, the United
Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and South Africa.
Additional information can be found at www.dyedurham.com.
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development plans, product innovation and software operations, and
business strategy are forward-looking information. The foregoing
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forecasts, but are based on the implementation of its strategic
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without limitation, the risk factors discussed in greater detail
under the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's most recent
annual information form and under the heading "Risks and
Uncertainties" in the Company's most recent Management's Discussion
and Analysis, which are available under Dye & Durham's profile
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the Company's control. If any of these risks or uncertainties
materialize, or if the opinions, estimates or assumptions
underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual
results or future events might vary materially from those
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assumptions that it believes are reasonable when made, the Company
cautions investors that forward-looking statements are not
guarantees of future performance and that its actual results of
operations, financial condition and liquidity and the development
of the industry in which it operates may differ materially from
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update or revise any forward-looking information or to publicly
announce the results of any revisions to any of those statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise,
except as required under applicable securities laws.
All of the forward-looking information contained in this press
release is expressly qualified by the foregoing cautionary
statements.
SOURCE Dye & Durham Limited