Contact: Ron Sharp

Rippe & Kingston, LLC

Phone: 513.241.1375

Fax: 513.241.0382

1077 Celestial Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

www.rippe.com

 

Rippe & Kingston

Press Release

Rippe & Kingston, LLC purchases business assets of Manac Solutions, Inc. and Manac Development Group

Combining Firms Creates one of the Largest Financial and Practice Management Technology Firms in North America.

Cincinnati, OH, October 25, 2004:  Effective October 15th, Rippe & Kingston, LLC executed an agreement to acquire substantially all the business assets of Manac Solutions, Inc and Manac Development Corporation.   The acquisition creates one of the largest financial and practice management technology firms in North America.  

Rippe & Kingston, LLC, for more than 25 years, has been a leader in the law firm financial and practice management industry with a history of providing systems that give law firms a competitive advantage and allow them to manage their business in the most efficient manner. With strong roots in public accounting, Rippe & Kingston is IBM’s Premier Business Partner to the legal industry with a pedigree of providing advanced technology and quality, proactive support to law firms.  Currently, Rippe & Kingston’s suite of products support firms ranging in size from two person practices to thousand attorney, multi-region firms.

“We are tremendously thrilled to bring Manac’s technology and clients under the Rippe & Kingston family,” comments Ron Sharp, President of Rippe & Kingston, LLC.  “With the rapid changes in not only technology but the marketplace, we are striving to meet and anticipate the needs of the growth oriented law firm.”

Under Rippe & Kingston, Manac’s clients will continue to receive the same level of support and service they received with Manac.  Manac Solutions and Manac Development Corporation were international companies which have been developing, implementing and supporting turnkey solutions for law firms since 1976. Manac provided software to law offices and corporate legal departments throughout North America.

"R&K's leadership and client service excellence is a natural transition for the staff and clients of Manac. The corporate cultures are quite similar," comments Gary Newton, former President of Manac. "Our clients will be well served under this new leadership and will have access to additional products and services".

 

 

 

 

About Rippe & Kingston, LLC

 

Rippe & Kingston, LLC, for more than 25 years, has been a leader in the law firm financial and practice management industry with a history of providing systems that give law firms a competitive advantage and allow them to manage their business in the most efficient manner. With strong roots in public accounting, Rippe & Kingston is IBM’s Premier Business Partner to the legal industry with a pedigree of providing advanced technology and quality, proactive support to law firms.  Please visit www.legal.rippe.com or call 513.241.1375 for more information.