Case Intake Wizards
When interviewing a client, select and fill in the appropriate intake form - citizenship, employment, visa petitions, etc. - and Abacus Immigration automatically creates the matter record, creates contact links, sets rules-based calendar events and prepares the data for seamless output to immigration forms. Intake is fast, accurate and your new case is set-up correctly from the start.
Fill, Edit and Save official Immigration Forms
Automatically complete official immigration forms. To fill any PDF immigration form, such as a notice of entry of appearance as attorney, petition for alien relative, or application for immigration visa and alien registration, just select the matter record, and then select the form and Abacus Immigration fills the form with a single mouse click.
Legal Calendaring and Deadline Management
Now all your firm's events are on one legal calendar! Abacus Immigration's alarms, reminders, and comprehensive reporting ensures all your hearings, client meetings, information requests, and filling deadlines 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 delays or missed deadlines.
Contact Management
Now all of your contacts - Clients, employers, judges and government agencies- are all in one place. Addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and notes are always at your fingertips.
Matter Management
Using screens specialized for your employment based, family based, citizenship, or visa petition based immigration cases, you can track and review information quickly. All matter information, including case diary, linked names, related documents, official forms, emails, appointments, and costs, are all in one centralized location.
Document Control and Tracking
Gain immediate access to each case's important documents, including biographic information, work and residence history, faxes, photos, scans, and all of your official immigration forms. Use the scan button to turn all incoming and outgoing paper files into PDF documents, allowing your firm to go paperless.
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 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.
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. Abacus Immigration uses Word, WordPerfect, and official Immigration form templates from your forms library to generate your documents quickly and accurately.
Accounting and Payroll
Abacus offers a complete accounting package including general ledger, check writer, accounts payable, trust accounting, over 120 financial report, 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.
