WorkGroup Scheduling

Schedule 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 Calendaring

Each 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 local rules 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:

• Make scheduling and rescheduling foolproof.
• Using timelines, you can automatically schedule court deadlines, reminders, and office procedures.
• Set up timelines for different types of practices or multiple venues and make calendaring a snap.
• No more counting on the wall calendar. Simply calendar the trigger event and all related events are scheduled for you.
• Change an event and related dates change accordingly. For example, calendar a trial and all related discovery cutoff and other dates are automatically calendared.
• Purchase our preprogrammed rule sets or set up your own to suit your practice.

Preprogrammed rules and timelines available from Abacus include:

• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Court rules for your jurisdiction (all states)
• California County local rules

Auto-Fill Court Forms

Automatically fill out court forms from your Abacus database by simply selecting a matter and the form. Data is merged from the matter into the appropriate fields in any PDF court form which remains editable for additional information. Completed forms can are suitable for printing or e-filing.

The integrated template editor allows you to easily map the fields in any PDF court forms to be populated form your AbacusLaw Database.

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Conflict of interest checking

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>>

Case Management

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

• all your cases
• create lists of actions needed and track advice given
• track and schedule all work performed
• provides a management tool for analysis of work flow, case status, and types of cases opened and closed

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 .

Contact Management

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.

Matter Management

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.

Enhanced Telephone Messaging:

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.

AbacusLaw MessageSlips

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.

Document Control

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, and PDFs 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.

• Abacus Law lets you take all the letters and documents you use every day and turn them into forms. Then a click of your mouse automatically takes your name and matter information and merges it for you.
• Embed forms in a rule to automatically generate documents.
• Combine data from any combination of names, matters and events.
• Insert complete case captions easily.
• Let Abacus Law include your firm information in your documents.
• Automatically runs your word processor.

The document management and tracking in Abacus Law puts all your critical documents in order in your desktop filing cabinet.

• Instantly view all your documents, word processing files and scanned images linked to a name or matter.
• Click on a file, and Abacus Law will run your application and bring up the document or image.
• Use Explorer to drag documents to Abacus Law
• Store locations of archived documents.
• Print reports of your documents.
• Find any document quickly.

Laptop Synchronization

Take your laptop with you. You can synchronize with your AbacusLaw database when you return to the office.

Home Office Synchronization

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.

Web Forms allow clients to imput data from anywhere

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.

Customizable Fields and Screens

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.

Create and Share Personalized Practice Packs

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.

Multi-Office Synchronization

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.

E-Calendar sends you your calendar by email

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.

Add and use Batch Reports

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.

Default Queries

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.

Practice Management

• Save on your malpractice premiums - discounts for using Abacus Law
• Increase your billable hours - without working more hours.
• Have the ability to control your practice and staff assignments - from your desktop

How?

• Abacus Law helps you eliminate the #1 cause of malpractice claims - missed deadlines. When you eliminate claims, you eliminate deductible payments of $2,500 or more !
• Most insurers give discounts of 5-15% to firms using Abacus Law. In a short time, your savings will more than pay for the software.
• By eliminating claims, you'll have more time to practice law, instead of spending time defending yourself. The Result? More billable hours. Abacus Law is even more cost effective when you consider that most firms report adding an average of ~2 minutes of additional billable time each day. That's over 216 hours annually, or more than $21,600 in revenues.

Reports...Any way you want them

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