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"Newer software tends to have many improvements, better usability,
and important features geared to lawyers." Generic, non-integrated software products are not designed for law offices. Your software should have the ease-of-use and sophistication a legal practice demands, as well as the ability to put related data (clients, cases and more) at your fingertips every time you need it. Click here to learn more. 
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Competitive Advantage with Law SoftwareWelcome! Technology can give you a competitive advantage, impress your prospects, help you more effectively service your clients, assist you in getting more done in less time and reduce malpractice risks. This web site lets you hear what case management experts, vendors and their customers already know. Practice management experts like Jim Calloway, Ross Kodner, David Bilinsky, Mark Goldin and others. Legal software vendor profiles include AbacusLaw, Amicus, Microsoft, PracticeMaster, ProLaw and Time Matters. The Importance of Using Software Designed for AttorneysYou're on the phone with a prospective client, while your legal assistant is at lunch and your law partner is in court. Suddenly, the second line rings. A client is calling to ask when the next step will occur in her case. You switch your computer screen to the client's file, mention her next two scheduled legal events and agree to meet with her the next afternoon, which you easily enter in your calendar. Back on Line 1, the prospect explains his basic requirements as you quickly click on your "conflict checking" screen and see that two years ago, your law partner actually handled a similar case for the prospect's adversary. You mention that you can't represent the prospect, but another click and you refer him to another attorney. You realize you've saved yourself future embarrassment
and legal risk, by not accepting a client whose case you'd eventually
have to drop. And, in the meantime, you professionally serviced
an important client. All this was handled more completely, quickly
and smoothly than you could have done without technology - even
if your colleagues had been in the office. An Expert's View on Law Office SoftwareKenneth Raggio - "Managing Clients and Cases" (A complete version of this article appeared in the ABA Family Law Section) "The biggest advance...in the computer technology area...is
the integration of functions that computer software can now
accomplish. For instance, once a client's name, case number,
opposing counsel, etc. is placed into an electronic file, the
data is usable by the practice system to automatically insert
information into pleadings, to print envelopes, to have available
for calendaring, docket control, and conflict checking and to
help assemble 'to do' lists." Click
here to read what other legal experts have to say. How do you choose from what's available? Click here to find out how. © 2006 1LawSoftware.com. All rights reserved. |
