Major Features List for Abacus Family Law

Here are some of the features that will help you simplify, organize and control your family law practice:

• Legal calendaring and deadline reports
• Time capture and billing
• Integrated and specialized matter management
• Court form generation
• Contact management
• Conflict checks

• Case intake forms
• Comprehensive reporting
• Document control and tracking
• Accounting and payroll
• Document assembly
• Remote Anytime Access

Legal Calendaring and Deadline Management

Now all your firm's events are on one legal calendar! Abacus' alarms, reminders, and comprehensive reporting ensures all your deadlines - court appearances, court filings, depositions, production of documents, status conferences - never catch you by surprise or fall through the cracks. Update your calendar from any workstation - office, home or mobile - and synchronize instantly. Ultimate calendar control means no missed deadlines.

Integrated and Specialized Matter Management

With specialized screens for all your family law cases - divorce, custody, guardianship, domestic violence, adoption, paternity, etc. - track and review information quickly. All matter information, including case diary, linked names, related documents, emails, appointments, billing items, are all in one centralized location.

Contact Management

Now all of your contacts - clients, ex-spouses, opposing attorneys, judges, accountants, doctors, police, and government agencies- are all in one place. Addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and notes are always at your fingertips.

Case Intake Forms

When interviewing a client, select and fill in the appropriate intake form - divorce, custody, adoption, guardianship, etc. - and AbacusLaw automatically populates the matter record, creates contact links and sets rules-based calendar events. Intake is fast, accurate and your new case is set-up correctly from the start.

Document Control and Tracking

Instantly view and track all your important case documents , including medical and financial record requests, faxes, court forms, photos, deposition transcripts, and tax returns. Use the scan button to turn all incoming and outgoing paper files into PDF documents, allowing your firm to go paperless.

Document Assembly

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 You're dangerously out-of-date.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 uses Word, WordPerfect, and PDF templates from your forms library to generate your documents quickly and accurately.

Time Capture and Billing

Attorneys who contemporaneously track their time log more hours. Abacus takes the drudgery out of manual time-management : just pull up a file, activate the clock, click the Bill button, and a bill slip is automatically generated!
(This feature requires AbacusLaw Gold.)

Court Form Generation

Automatically complete PDF court forms. For any family law form, such as a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or any of the 300+ California Judicial Council Family Law Forms, just select the matter record, select the form and AbacusLaw will fill it in with a single mouse click.

Conflict Checks

Conflict of interest checking is a crucial activity in every law practice. Check for potential conflicts of interest so you can avoid having to return a fee if you're conflicted out of a case.

Comprehensive Reporting

Abacus Law comes with over 100 standard reports and layouts . You can print calendar reports, such as daily, weekly, multi-weekly, monthly calendars. You can print deadline reports, including appointments, deadlines and malpractice alert reports. You can print matter reports, such as divorce cases by month or by attorney, active cases, case type by attorney, cases opened per month. Finally, productivity reports allow you to analyze the productivity of your firm, attorney time, case types and make management decisions.

Accounting and Payroll

Abacus offers a complete accounting package including general ledger, check writer, accounts payable, trust accounting, over 120 financial reports, and payroll.
(This feature requires AbacusLaw Gold.)

Remote Anytime Access

Take your laptop with you. You can synchronize with your AbacusLaw database when you return to the office. AbacusLaw also allows you to synchronize your calendar and contacts to your Blackberry, Treo, Windows Mobile or Palm device so you never have to be without your important data again.