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‘Cashier’ is fully integrated to DPS’s One Office Case Management solution to provide practice management software that can bill every minute a lawyer spends on your case to you!

This integration between the accounts and their case management system means as they do any work, send you a letter, an email, get a letter or emial from you it is automatically recorded and billed against the your case. In the words a famous supermarket, “every little bit helps” and of course it does not take long for the time to mount up into a decent size bill.

Just so you know exactly how fast the bill is racking up systems like Cashier publish the information to the web so you can track costs online 365/24/7. Like you wanted to know that thinking about the last email you sent cost you $50!

Seriously though this type of high level of information means that you get live information changes between accounts and case management systems.

It also means that if they are doing work for you that gets you close to credit or time limits they can stop and warn you which is where client accounts become very useful.

As they say time is money and recording the time so that it can become money is essential!

What is a client account you ask?

All lawyers have to run client accounts because money that they keep on your behalf is your money not their money and so it needs to be in a client account. It means that you are entitled to the interest on that money not them. It also means that when they run up a bit of a bill they can dip into the client account (your money) and make it their money by using it to pay the bills on your account.

Useful that having a stash of your money on hand to pay their bills when they need to. Clearly this all has to comply with a set of rules and guidelines and this is where legal accounts software becomes essential. Properly implemented, software like ‘Cashier’ that meets the Law Society rules, Legal Aid Franchising Quality Assurance Standards (LAFQAS) and Lexel standards producing relevant reports for these standards is critical and your lawyer should be operating it.

Should they be charging you so much, well compare not having a lawyer to the cost. Now think is it worth it, probably!

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The greater capacities and lower costs of the personal computer have made it possible for more and more law firms to gain the advantages of automating their accounting and control functions. At the same time, however, the indirect cost of training and converting to get a new system on-line remains substantial. And those costs apply whether or not the new T&B system selected is the correct one – that is meeting the specific requirements and objectives of the user. Al… More >>

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Today, we can find all types of lawyers to answer whatever legal need we come across with. If you are looking for a specific kind of lawyer or if you are considering a carer in law, here are some of the types of lawyers that we have today to help you out.

1. Asbestos Lawyer

Asbestos lawyers or Mesothelioma lawyers, are those lawyers who represent clients experiencing health problems which resulted from the inhalation of minute asbestos particles. Such clients would include any individual who has been under some level of exposure to small asbestos particles, like those people who have worked or have lived around asbestos. A few examples would be construction and office workers, school children who go to schools that have been constructed with the use of asbestos-containing building materials, as well as those who live in apartment that are considered as toxic buildings.

2. Assault Lawyer

Assault lawyers would be those lawyers who handle various criminal as well as civil assault cases. Criminal assault lawyers or criminal defense lawyers would be those who defend individuals who have been charged with some kind of criminal assault. Civil assault lawyers or personal injury lawyers represent victims of assault and battery so that they would be able to recover the damage for the physical injuries that resulted from the crime.

3. Car Accident Lawyer

If you are the victim of some kind of hit-and-run accident, or have been involved in a vehicle collision, a pedestrian accident or an alcohol or a drug-related incident, a car accident lawyer would be just what you need. This particular type of lawyer would be able to ensure that you would be receiving a fair treatment and compensation from insurance companies and assisting you in the recovery of everything that you are entitles to such as lost wages, pain, sufferring, medical bills, as well as property damages.

4. Bankruptcy Lawyer

If you are in a stage in your life where you are considering filing bankruptcy, a competent bankruptcy lawyer would be able to help you out. He or she would be helping you to evaluate your situation, the available options as well as the best course of action to take before actually filing for it.

5. Criminal Lawyer

Criminal defense lawyers would probably one of the most popular types of lawyers today. This type of lawyer actually has a rather difficult job as he or she represents those individuals who have been accused of a crime, as they make sure that there would be a just trial given to the defendant or to their client.

Some other types of lawyers would be divorce lawyers, employment lawyers, fraud lawyers, medical malpractice lawyers, litigation lawyers, tax lawyers, traffic lawyers, software lawyers and many more.

The above are a few of the common lawyers that people hire on an everyday basis. I would say these are the lawyers that make a major portion of the legal market. There are a few others, which I will cover in a later article.

The legal professionals of today have to deal with the complexity of time tracking and billing, which in most cases leads to disappointment and frustration. The important question here is how the time tracking and billing processes can be automated? There are several software companies who like the TimeSolv Corporation have come out with user friendly automated software to meet the growing demands of legal professionals. They have introduced the Mac billing software, which can handle any billing task that was so far being handled manually.

The salient aspect of the Mac billing software is that using it, legal professionals can track their assignments that have already been completed or are on the verge of completion. The time and billing software by TimeSolv is popular because it offers accuracy in billing, efficiency, as well as reliability. Since 1999, TimeSolv has been working with small to medium sized law firms and creating time and billing solutions that can suffice the billing requirements of legal professionals. Some of the reasons for popularity of Mac billing software include:

Best automated time and billing solution for legal professionals and lawyers

Using the TimeSolv Mac billing software, lawyers will be able to keep track of time as well as tasks over the internet. This software is equipped with different types of time billing options that range from hourly rates to fixed fee rates.

The software can analyze time and help increase a firm’s overall efficiency

This Mac legal billing software will assist legal professionals in analyzing their time so that this can help increase the overall efficiency of a firm. This software can be used for better time tracking, improving cash flow using faster bill presentment techniques. It will help lawyers to even reduce their billing disputes and can even use the billing system as a “practice dashboard”.

Flexible billing options

This is one of the most important aspects of the TimeSolv Mac billing software. It offers flexible legal billing options like printing and mailing, automail or outsourced mail, electronic bill presentment, invoice through email, consolidated billing invoice, generating retainer bills, and preparation of completely editable draft invoices.

Secure and reliable hosting as well as backup

What is really different about the Mac billing software is that it is different from other time tracking and billing software’s due to the high level of security it offers. Lawyers using this software will be able to enjoy 128bit SSL certificate interface for all their confidential matters. From client information to billing, all types of data will be hidden from any outside source. At the same time, the lawyers using the software will have access to this data 24 x 7 over the internet. It is being hosted in a world class data center that not only offers a high level of security but also tackles various maintenance issues that can range from hardware faults to software errors.

These are some of the salient aspects of the Mac billing software marketed and maintained by TimeSolv.