Legal app maker sees headcount and revenues soar since £1.5m injection
A Manchester specialist app maker has seen its workforce more than double and first half turnover grow by 80% as usage soared during lockdowns.
Lavatech, which secured £1.5m of private equity investment last June, is behind the inCase legal app.
It enables law firms to communicate with their clients efficiently and securely, with inCase helping hundreds of thousands of clients during the pandemic execute documents and tasks when traditional communication methods have proved impossible.
Its services range from helping people who have suffered life changing injuries receive the support they need or families move into their homes, helping to keep the legal processes going when, normally, they would have ground to a halt.
Last year’s investment has been used to grow personnel from a headcount of 10 to 23, with a further eight positions to be filled by June 2021.
Lavatech has also invested further into its legal app by adding new features to complement the legal process in certain sectors, particularly conveyancing, which include a revolutionary identity checking service that uses a person’s smartphone to read the biometric chip in a passport.
Founder and chief executive, Sucheet Amin, who is senior partner of Aequitas Legal and a past president of Manchester Law Society, said: “The importance of legal tech has been drastically highlighted in the past year – suddenly many firms found themselves working from home and confronted with increasing communication challenges. An intuitive app is the perfect remedy for these obstacles.
“We are proud to support our client firms at a challenging time to embrace innovation. Since using the app, our clients have reported huge improvements in their client user experience and instruction.”
Lavatech plans to release new features every six months, with the next big development of the platform offering video conferencing through the app so clients and their lawyers can securely speak face-to-face and record vital testimonials and evidence for legal cases.
It also aims to be the first to provide electronic Transfer Deeds for the property industry, meaning clients can execute more documents from the comfort of their own home.
