AbacusLaw for
Energy Law Firms
Whether it’s ensuring compliance with the regulations, rules, and procedures, structuring a major deal, or reviewing lease or royalty arrangements, AbacusLaw will better organize your case and contact information, automate the assembly of your documents, and keep you on top of all your case facts and documents.
Using AbacusLaw in your energy law practice you will:
Automate the Generation of 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 correspondence and documents, such as power project agreements, subordinate debt agreements, bids in response to RFPs, or financial documents. With AbacusLaw, turn all your documents into reusable templates that will make document generation a breeze.
- If a lawsuit ensues, streamline and automate production of litigation and discovery documents, including summons, complaints, answers, motions, document requests, and appeals.
- Forms and documents are linked to the matter for easy retrieval, making it easy for you to update or revise them when necessary.
Stop Misplacing Case Information
AbacusLaw puts all of your facts and contacts at your fingertips for quick and easy retrieval.- Linking notes, telephone calls, emails, documents, exhibits, and forms to your matters means you’re just a mouse click away from the information you need for creating all kinds of documents and correspondence, as well as preparing for meetings.
- Scan and file environmental studies and environmental impact statements, RFPs, term sheets, letters of credit, feasibility or technical studies, and any other documents supporting a transaction, as well as documents important for litigation. AbacusLaw facilitates secure archiving and easy retrieval.
- That same quick access lets you respond to client inquiries quickly, accurately and completely. AbacusLaw helps with email management and phone messaging. Your clients will notice and appreciate your professionalism.
Ensure Deadlines Don’t Fall Through the Cracks
You’ll stay on track when you put all your events into one legal calendar.- You’ll confidently meet all of your deadlines, such as the time to prepare, respond to, or file reports, tender bids, or review contracts, leases, and loan agreements. If involved in litigation, AbacusLaw will track court, conference, discovery, and filing dates.
- Smart alarms will remind you of important events so you won't be late or forget meetings with clients and their staff, lenders, consultants, parties on the other side of the negotiating table, or regulators.
Generate Bills Quickly
AbacusLaw’s integrated time, billing and accounting features make it easy to organize your financial information.- You’ll be able to record time spent as you work. Hourly billing has never been easier, even when you have a diverse team of attorneys and support staff, all billing at different rates, working for a client.
- Track expenses, such as consultant and expert fees, or document production costs.
- 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 let you see what parts of your practice are the most profitable. Certain parts of your practice will take longer than they should, given their contribution to your firm’s bottom line. AbacusLaw will help you understand where you can improve profitability without sacrificing service.
What Attorneys Are Saying About AbacusLaw
"All of the features of AbacusLaw have helped me to be more efficient
and productive in my practice of law. AbacusLaw is the full package and I don't
know why anyone would use anything else."
Kristyne Aljian of San Luis Obispo, CA
