Law practice management features in AbacusLaw software |
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Legal CalendaringHow many calendars are you currently using? If you're still working with paper - desk, pocket, master calendar - coordinating is a chore! AbacusLaw legal software puts all your events into one legal 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 law practice mangement software from Abacus! With AbacusLaw Legal Software You Can:
With calendars you take control Facilities Scheduling Legal Date Calculator Alarms
WorkGroup SchedulingSchedule 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 update everyone's calendar. Create Rules in CalendaringEach practice and jurisdiction has its own requirements for calendar events. You can create your own rules and the AbacusLaw calendar will take the trigger event you specify and schedule all related events for you. Abacus also has optional court rules that cover Federal, state and California County Fast Track guidelines.
AbacusLaw knows the rules and automates them for you!Select the rule and AbacusLaw 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:
Preprogrammed rules and timelines available from Abacus include:
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When interviewing a client, the customizable intake form allows you to conveniently enter information and have AbacusLaw automatically populate the matter record, create contact links and set rules-based calendar events. Place your intake form on your network (for staff to complete) and/or your website (for clients to complete).
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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. More on Conflict Checking>>
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
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. 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. 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 .
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 emails, print envelopes, letters, faxes, bills, and more. The most popular Avery label formats are already programmed for your convenience
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.
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 with abacus law practice software.
With MessageSlips™, you can throw away your old phone slips!
AbacusLaw's messenger program lets you send messages to any
user on your network. Take phone messages for unavailable
colleagues, or send a message to ask if that person wants
to take a call ("Jane Smith's holding on line 2…should I
take a message or have her wait?").
Link messages to any clients or cases with just a click. All your messages are automatically archived so you'll never again have to go digging through the trash to find that tossed-out slip.
Internal office messaging system. IMing is a phenomenon that has
reached even to our cellular phones these days and the good and bad
features of this technology have been argued continually since
its inception.
Is it a time waster or does it promote productivity? It's no secret that communication is a major key to success in any business and communication with employees has never been easier than with instant messaging.
The problem with all of this ease of communication is the ease of outside distraction from users not within your company.
AbacusLaw MessageSlips works like your favorite messaging program but is limited to only the network in which it is installed. This means you don’t have to worry about unwanted interruptions during office hours or loss of use caused by a break in your internet connection.
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. AbacusLaw attorney software links to Word, WordPerfect, ProDoc and HotDoc (version 5 and below) for your own library of legal forms. Create a document template then let AbacusLaw attorney software 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.
The document management and tracking in Abacus Law puts all your critical documents in order in your desktop filing cabinet.
AbacusLaw allows you to synchronize your calendar and contacts to your PDA so you never have to be without your important data ever again. AbacusLaw also lets you synchronize as many PDA's as you have licensed users, meaning everyone can take their data with them.
Synchronization to PDA devices is one of many exciting features of AbacusLaw for attorneys who are in and out of the office. They need their important information with them at all times. The ability to simply synch your data and head out the door is something that many attorneys simply can't live without.
Install the Companion Link software provided on your AbacusLaw installation CD and configure the options that suit you. Then, each time you want to synch your PDA, simply hit the synch button. It's that easy! Your AbacusLaw data is converted to the PDA format, so appointments and contacts show up just as they would if you were to enter them on the device itself.
AbacusLaw is compatible with the Palm OS, Pocket PC Outlook , Windows CE 3.0 , Windows CE 2.0, 2.1 and BlackBerry. These include most varieties of PDA's available.
Take your laptop with you. You can synchronize with your AbacusLaw database when you return to the office.
With AbacusLaw Classic or Gold, you can work from a PC at home and remotely synchronize with the office database by emailing files between the two locations.
If your email program of choice is Microsoft Outlook, you'll be pleased at how well it integrates with AbacusLaw. Just import Outlook contact and schedule information to AbacusLaw. Send emails in Outlook by simply clicking on a contact record's email icon in AbacusLaw. Import emails and attached documents to the matter and name records from within MS Outlook.
Abacus Special Editions are discipline-specific "practice packs" that add valuable, preconfigured screens, rules, docs and reports to your existing Abacus law practice software. Learn more about Special Editions for Personal Injury, Family Law , Estate Planning and Workers' Comp.
With web forms AbacusLaw allows clients to input all the data you need to open a case and import the information directly into your Abacus database. You can customize the information collected and place the form on your firm's website allowing you and your clients to input information to Abacus from any place that has an internet connection.
Learn more about web forms.
Gain the data protection and increased speed from a true client/server database without the cost and expense of a product like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. The Abacus Law secure database server gives you bulletproof data integrity on networks making data corruption during power failures or workstation crashes a thing of the past. You'll see a marked increase in the speed of Abacus because much less data goes back and forth across your network. With Fortress only the data that an individual workstation needs is sent by the server. Without Fortress the workstation must filter all the data locally, reducing speed and efficiency.
For offices with Windows or Novell servers, you can get significant speed and stability advantages without high training, personnel or license expenses. This is the same type of technology used in Oracle or Microsoft SQL systems without the high initial and recurring costs of database administration and system support.
The Abacus Fortress secure database server lets you withstand power blackouts, workstation lockups and system crashes without any data loss or corruption. All data access is handled and double-checked at the server, not by each workstation, giving you maximum protection. Only the data you need comes across the network wire, so the larger your databases and the more users on your network, the greater your advantage. Installs in minutes, works effortlessly behind the scenes, protects your data, and makes AbacusLaw run faster when you have 10 or more workstations.
With AbacusLaw Gold and AbacusLaw Classic you have powerful options customize your desktop and case management functionality. Add fields to the forms and database, configure the layout and colors of tools, all without leaving the AbacusLaw desktop using intuitive tools.
A practice pack lets you define preconfigured screens, rules, reports and forms customized for your office and practice area. Practice packs can be shared by your whole office. Abacus also has a variety of optional Special Editions. We also provide preconfigured practice packs for Family Law and Estate Planning.
Secure synchronization allows multi-office firms to keep all of their databases up to date, allowing increased efficiency and ensuring that everyone has access to the most up-to-date and accurate information. AbacusLaw uses secure packet transmission to keep all databases synchronized. Available for AbacusLaw Classic or AbacusLaw Gold when used with AbacusLaw Fortress.
Get your up-to-date calendar even when you're not in the office - by email. Abacus will send E-Calendars to anyone on staff who is set up for this exclusive feature. You can set it up for daily E-Calendars or have one sent to you whenever you ask.
The batch report function allows you to create groups of reports that can be ran and printed simultaneously. For example, create a group including each attorney's weekly calendars to be printed out every Monday.
Send email to any client right from their name record and import contact information from most email programs including MS Outlook.
Import emails and attached documents to the matter and name records from MS Outlook. Attached emails can be accessed form the matter screen email tab. Email added to the record is available to all staff who are working on that matter.
You can set up a default query for Names, Events and Matters. This query will be automatically applied when you open a window or the browse window for these primary databases, so you’ll always see just your preferred data.
How?
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.
Click to see practice management reports included
in AbacusLaw
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