What are the most popular
features of Abacus Law Software?
Legal Calendar Software
How many legal calendars are you currently using? If you're
still working with paper - desk, pocket, master calendar
- coordinating is a chore!
Abacus Law puts all your events into one calendar database.
Update from any workstation - office, home or mobile - and
synchronize instantly. Ultimate calendar control means no
missed deadlines. Get out of the paper trap with Abacus software!
With AbacusLaw Legal Calendar Software You Can:
- List all dates for one case, one client, one attorney, a group,
or the entire office.
- Track court dates, statutes of limitations, appointments,
meetings, and vacations.
- Schedule related events using court rules, and practice-mandated
timelines.
- Schedule people, conference rooms, and equipment in a
single entry.
- Eliminate scheduling conflicts.
- Recur events as often and as long as necessary.
- Maintain an audit trail of entries and changes.
Learn more about our legal calendar features.
With calendars you take control
Print calendars the way you like them: Daily, weekly, or
monthly. You can print Trial calendars for one client, one
case, or one court. Print your Daily Organizer and have your
appointments, to-do list, and phone messages with you while
away from the office.
Facilities Scheduling
Are you tired of fighting for a conference room or a piece
of equipment? Use Abacus Law to schedule facilities right
along with staff. You'll eliminate disappointments and embarrassment.
Legal Date Calculator
You won't find a calculator like this in a generic scheduling
program. The Legal Date Calculator computes "Court Days" and
calendar days. Once your calculation is done, a click of
your mouse will paste it into your calendar or document.
It couldn't be simpler!
Alarms
Want a reminder of an upcoming event? No problem, Abacus
Law will pop-up an alarm message to notify you ahead of time.
WorkGroup Scheduling
Schedule an event for a group and it appears on each member's
calendar. Group Scheduling is dynamic... change the members
of a group and Abacus Law will change everyone's calendar.
Court Rules
Select the rule and Abacus Law automatically calculates
your deadlines. We make docket deadlines easy so you never
again need to go searching through the rules or counting
on your fingers to calculate a deadline. Let the computer
do it for you, instantly and accurately. Your risk of malpractice
plummets.
Rules and Timelines make scheduling and rescheduling foolproof
Using timelines, you can automatically schedule court deadlines,
reminders, and office procedures. Set up timelines for different
types of practices or multiple venues and make calendaring
a snap. No more counting on the wall calendar. Simply calendar
the trigger event and all related events are scheduled for
you. Change an event and related dates change accordingly.
For example, calendar a trial and all the related discovery
cutoff and other dates are automatically calendared.
Purchase our preprogrammed rule sets or set up your own
to suit your practice.
Preprogrammed rules and timelines available from Abacus:
- General Practice Timelines (20 practice areas)
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Court rules for your jurisdiction (most states)
- California Fast Track
File Control
If you're telling clients, "I'll get back to you," but
you really mean, "I have to find your file," you've
got two problems. One: upset clients. Two: your wasted time
and money. How many times each day does it happen? And how
much more billable time could you log by giving clients answers
in just a couple of mouse clicks?
File control is real! Instantly find the information you
need, make changes and track your time for billing. Updates
are reflected immediately, and there's no chance of misplacing
the file. You should expect to work this way. It's the easy
and error-free way to run a law practice. With Abacus Law
practice control software your flow of information just got
organized, simplified and under control!
Document Control
If you're still cutting and pasting, you've probably sent
one client a document with another client's information still
in it. You're dangerously out-of-date. Abacus Law links to
PDF, ProDoc, WordPerfect and Word
for your own library of legal forms. Create a document template
then let Abacus Law merge the data from the database. The
completed document links to your client file while the template
is ready to use again. Stop duplicating and retyping data!
With Abacus Law you can create perfect documents with just
a click of your mouse.
- Abacus Law lets you take all the letters and documents you
use every day and turn them into forms. Then a click of your
mouse automatically takes your name and matter information and
merges it for you.
- Embed forms in a rule to automatically generate documents.
- Combine data from any combination of names, matters and
events.
- Insert complete case captions easily.
- Let Abacus Law include your firm information in your
documents.
- Automatically runs your wordprocessor.
The document management and tracking in Abacus Law puts
all your critical documents in order in your desktop filing
cabinet.
- Instantly view all your documents, wordprocessing files and
scanned images linked to a name or matter.
- Click on a file, and Abacus Law will run your application
and bring up the document or image.
- Use Explorer to drag documents to Abacus Law
- Store locations of archived documents.
- Print reports of your documents.
- Find any document quickly.
Case Management
Abacus Law gives you instant access to all your important
case information. Real-time access for everyone on your network
ensures that your practice will run smoothly even when you're
not there. Enter information once and the exclusive linking
system in Abacus Law takes care of the rest.
Automate
- all your cases
- create lists of actions needed and track advice given
- track and schedule all work performed
- provides a management tool for analysis of work flow,
case status, and types of cases opened and closed
Easy to customize for your practice
Abacus Law adapts to every practice size and type. You
decide how you want to use it, and everyone in the office
will work more efficiently.
Here's the easy way to keep all your notes organized.
Take notes on-screen! Abacus Law gives you unlimited note-taking
capability. Keep track of telephone calls, case facts, and
advice given. You can add notes to name, matter, and event
records. Review your notes and you'll quickly have a handle
on every case, client and contact. Never rely on those easy
to lose scraps of paper again.
Flexibility... the key to having it your way
Choose the program that lets you work your way! With Abacus
Law, instantly get to all of your case, contact, and calendar
information from anywhere in the program.
While viewing your Daily Organizer you can see all the related
case and people information with just a mouse click If you're
at a name screen, you can see all the cases and events linked
to the name. Jump to any linked name, matter, or event with
just a click of your mouse. The flexibility of Abacus Law
lets you decide how to get to, view, and print out information.
Gain the advantage with your comprehensive command of the
timelines and facts. Need a detail? Search and get it instantly.
The power of Abacus Law's linked databases - notes, cases,
client files, and documents - makes it possible. Run Abacus
Law on your laptop or even keep facts on your Palm and then
synchronize back at the office.
Matter Management
Abacus Law is more than litigation software. It's a powerful
and sophisticated practice control tool that gives you ultimate
command of your material. Linked databases - files, notes,
matters (projects) and documents - means you can stop working
piecemeal. Don't waste your day on administrative tasks -
get back to practicing law and logging billable hours. Practice
control software is a comprehensive solution to the workflow
traffic jam. Get streamlined. Get practice control.
Practice Management
- Save on your malpractice premiums – discounts for using
Abacus Law
- Increase your billable hours – without working more
hours.
- Have the ability to control your practice and staff assignments – from
your desktop
How?
- Abacus Law helps you eliminate the #1 cause of malpractice
claims – missed deadlines. When you eliminate claims, you
eliminate deductible payments of $2,500 or more !
- Most insurers give discounts of 5-15% to
firms using Abacus Law In a short time, your
savings will more than pay for the software.
- By eliminating claims, you'll have more time
to practice law, instead of spending time defending
yourself. The Result? More billable hours.
Abacus Law is even more cost effective when
you consider that most firms report adding
an average of 52 minutes of additional billable
time each day. That's over 216 hours annually,
or more than $21,600 in revenues.
Reports.... any way you want them
You can print daily, weekly, multi-weekly, and monthly calendars.
Abacus Law comes with over 100 standard reports and layouts.
Pick one to print, modify to your specifications, or use
the Report Writer that comes with Abacus Law to create customized
reports.
Exclusive Malpractice Alert Report
With Abacus Law, nothing slips through the cracks. This
report is your sleep insurance. Run it once a month and you'll
see any matters which have no future activities calendared.
You'll sleep well the rest of the month knowing you've got
everything under control.
Operator Audit Report
Now you have a quick way to review all the records that
have been added or changed by any operator. When you have
a new employee or temp in your office, you'll have the security
of knowing that you can print a report showing all the records
that were changed.
Universal Address Book
The ultimate contact manager. With your address book information
entered into Abacus Law, clients, opposing attorneys, judges,
important business contacts, and vendors are all in one place.
Addresses, telephone numbers, and notes are always at your
fingertips.
Send e-mails, print envelopes, labels (the most popular
Avery formats are already programmed for your convenience),
letters, faxes, bills, and more. Make address or phone changes
in Abacus Law and everyone will have the correct information
instantly. It even updates your PDA.
With a modem in your computer and the Phone Dialer in Abacus
Law, dialing is just a click away. No more looking up numbers
and fumbling with the phone at the same time.
Interruption insurance
If you're like most legal professionals, the only certainty
in your day is that you will be interrupted often. How difficult
is it to get back to where you left off before the interruption?
Abacus Law solves that problem for you. With Back, Forward,
and History buttons Abacus Law works like your Internet browser.
After an interruption, its easy to get back to work when
Abacus Law takes you to where you left off. Just click on
the record you want to return to and you're there. It's as
easy as that!
Perpetual To-do List
Don't waste time rewriting your daily things to do. Abacus
Law let's you prioritize, change, postpone, delegate, and
complete them without rewriting. It carries unfinished tasks
forward - so you see them tomorrow. You simply can't lose
track of a task, deadline, or forget an event.
Phone Messages
Clients are happier when firms eliminate paper messages.
Paper messages are deadly - buried on your desk, lost or
illegible. You want to return phone calls, but it takes too
long to locate notes and contact information, and you don't
always have the file immediately at hand. Now there's a better
way. Let staff log messages directly into Abacus Law - then
open it from your desktop to see the notes and numbers.
Time/Billing/Accounting
Complete front office and back office integration is here!
It's a fact - attorneys who contemporaneously track their
time log more hours. AbacusLaw's integrated accounting features
take the drudgery out of the time-management task. Pull
up a matter in Abacus Law and activate the clock. Make a
note, click the Bill button, and a bill slip is automatically
generated for that client and matter. Your most important
administrative chores just got easier!
Trust Accounting
Our Trust Accounting system exceeds all Bar Association requirements
and safeguards your firm from inadvertently "overdrawing" their Trust
account or a Trust Matter.
Conflicts of Interest Checking
Don't ever return a retainer! Some firms still do conflicts
checking manually. But if they miss a conflict of interest,
they may have to pay back their fee. How humiliating, not
to mention costly. There's a better way. Abacus Law searches
your entire database - quickly, flawlessly. Search on names,
partial names, social security numbers, or do a "sounds
like" search. Accept cases without the usual delay and
costs associated with typical conflicts checking.
Learn more about AbacusLaw conflict
checking in the product
tour.
Synch PDA
AbacusLaw allows you to synchronize your calendar and contacts
to your PDA so you never have to be without your important
data ever again. Learn More >>
Advanced Database Customization
Only Abacus Law gives you the power to add, rename, and
resize database fields, screens, indexes, queries, reports,
and user options. You can completely change the data Abacus
Law tracks, the look of the screens, and the reports to fit
your unique practice needs.
Version Comparison
To compare features across various versions of AbacusLaw
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