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Criminal Defense

Whether you’re defending clients charged with misdemeanors or felonies, evaluating evidence, witness statements or negotiating plea agreements, AbacusLaw will simplify information gathering in your case workflow, automate production of documents and court forms, and keep you on top of appointments, deadlines and mission critical case activities. 

Using AbacusLaw in your criminal defense practice you will:

Eliminate Calendaring Mistakes

Confidently keep all your appointments and appearances with your events consolidated in one legal calendar.

• Meet all of your deadlines, such as filing pre-trial motions, preparing for arraignments and preliminary hearings, scheduling depositions, responding to opposing counsel’s requests, and filing appeals when necessary.
• Abacus smart alarms will remind you of important events so you won't be late or forget meetings with clients, witnesses, investigators, judges or opposing counsel.

Instantly Generate Perfect Documents

Eliminate mistakes by automating the generation of routine documents and forms. AbacusLaw works with Word, WordPerfect, and PDF forms. Create a document template, then let AbacusLaw pull correct information from the database each and every time.

• Quickly draft retainer agreements, correspondence, pre-trial motions, Petitions for Dismissal, plea offers, and Subpoenas, while minimizing awkward and potentially serious errors.
• Scan important documents, such as Petitions for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in written form, for safe storage and easy retrieval. With AbacusLaw, you can associate and save vital evidence with your case files.
• Forms and documents are linked to the matter for easy retrieval, making it easy for you to update or revise them when necessary.

Deliver Top-Notch Client Service

AbacusLaw puts all of your facts and contacts at your fingertips for quick and easy retrieval.

• Linking notes, telephone calls, emails, documents and forms to your matters means you’re just a mouse click away from the information you need for preparing motions, trial presentations, correspondence, and court forms.
• That same quick access lets you respond to client inquiries quickly, accurately and completely. Your clients will notice and appreciate your professionalism.

Record More Time and Generate Bills Quickly

AbacusLaw’s integrated time, billing and accounting features make it easy to organize your financial information.

• Record time and expenses as you work.
• When billing hourly against a retainer, you’ll know how your time has been spent, and how much of the retainer has been applied.
• Management reports help you see what parts of your practice are the most profitable. If you bill on a flat fee basis, you need to make sure you don’t spend more time on a matter than your fee justifies. AbacusLaw will help you evaluate, manage, and streamline your practice.

AbacusLaw is the only software that can combine multiple practice areas so easily. Ask us how.

What Attorneys Are Saying About AbacusLaw

"I have quickly become more productive, more aware of just exactly how my cases are progressing and how well I am doing in certain specific areas of my practice. Abacus has come up with a true winner in case management. I'm very pleased with the product."
Alan Pearlman, Esq.