PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Accelerating
Law Firm Success for Four Decades

The SurePoint Story

For more than four decades, SurePoint® Technologies has empowered law firms to thrive in a constantly evolving legal landscape. Our team—comprised of CPAs, former attorneys, and leading software engineers—brings unmatched industry expertise and a deep understanding of law firm operations.

Our award-winning platform delivers greater visibility and control across practice management, financial performance, client relationships, and payment workflows. By unifying front and back-office functions—and combining market intelligence—we help firms strengthen collaboration, improve efficiency, and drive growth.

Today, SurePoint offers a unified technology ecosystem that blends business intelligence with financial, talent, and client management solutions. From powerful accounting tools to actionable legal insights, our platform helps law firms tackle talent challenges, maximize revenue, and enhance the client experience—fueling sustainable practice acceleration.

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Meet Our Leadership Team

SurePoint® provides mid-sized law firms with the software they require to better run their business and focus on their clients.

Eric Thurston

President & CEO

Jim FitzGibbons

Chief Financial Officer

Dan Hurley

Chief Sales Officer

Laura Leopard

GM Leopard Solutions

Cindy Johnson

Chief People Officer

Jeff Dernavich

Chief Product Officer

Olivia Mockel

Chief Operating Officer

Ryan Anderson

Chief Technology Officer

Four Decades of Innovation

2025

Announced the acquisition of ZenCase, a practice management solution to better support the front office

2024

Acquired Leopard Solutions enabling SurePoint to amplify competitive, market, and business intelligence data for the legal industry

2023

Launched Coyote Analytics Cloud Established partnership with LawToolBox

2022

Acquired ContactEase legal CRM Expanded legal ERP portfolio through acquisition of Coyote Analytics legal ERP

2021

Acquired by Aquiline Capital Partners (NYC based private equity firm)

2020

Rippe & Kingston software rebrands as SurePoint Technologies Voted Top 3 Practice Management in the Cloud by The Texas Lawyer, Houston Best Of Survey

2019

User community surpasses 40,000 legal professionals

2018

Rippe & Kingston software business acquired by ParkerGale (private equity)

2001 - 2015

LMS grows through market and customer driven enhancements that improve law firm operations, online timekeeping and insights into firm profitability and performance

2000

LMS launched in the cloud

1990

Legal Management System (LMS) first integrated practice and financial management solution to legal industry

1982

Rippe & Kingston emerges in the legal industry as a provider of specialized accounting software

Eric Thurston

President & CEO

Proven private equity technology executive across various vertical industries including oil & gas, chemicals, public sector, associations and non-profits with expertise in ERP, HCM, fund raising, payments and other product areas. Multi-turn executive with experience scaling companies to $100m+ on a global scale. Skilled at all aspects of M&A including post-deal integration into the acquired company, experience with ~20 founder transitions, leading with culture while scaling for growth and building a cohesive leadership team at all levels of the company to drive business performance.

SurePoint Achieves ISO 27001 Compliance

Meeting ISO 27001 furthers SurePoint’s commitment to safeguarding customer data.

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