Showing posts with label Attorney time tracking software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attorney time tracking software. Show all posts

Friday, 16 September 2011

Attorney Billing Software For Higher Productivity and Profits

When you started your career as an independent attorney, you may not have anticipated it. Back office operations including accounting, bookkeeping and tracking of billable hours can actually eat into your time and keep you from concentrating on the important task of handling clients' cases. Have you considered using attorney billing software to take care of all the complex and time consuming accounting tasks? Legal billing software takes care of all the back office operations and frees you to concentrate on your legal profession, handle more cases profitably, and yet be relaxed.

As an attorney, you would be handling cases on a variety of payment options. One very popular method is the billable hours basis. It does involve your having to keep records of the number of hours worked and then issue invoices, keep track of payments received and balance outstanding while preparing the next invoice and related issues. In addition to billable hours, there is the matter of keeping track of expenses that need to be included in the bill yet maintained separately. Legal time and billing software handles all this effortlessly. If you have agreed to work on a retainer-cum-billable hours basis then your invoice for replenishment shows how the advance is used. As if this is not enough, there is the matter of trust bookkeeping and legal billing concerning trust accounting and bank reconciliations. A negative balance in trust accounting means you have used trust funds and this could reflect adversely on you, that could very well be prevented by using legal billing and accounting software. Why let all this happen, when a fully integrated lawyer billing software works seamlessly in the background to handle everything, generate reports and keep you updated of each client's account and each matter in a very easy and time-saving way?

When you are so busy with your professional life and handle so many clients, it is not easy to keep track of each one manually or by using a spreadsheet—both are laborious and time-consuming. You may overlook so many small outstanding amounts that add up to a sizeable sum. Law firm billing software improves your cash flow by generating reports of such unpaid amounts periodically. The law office billing software is a computerized process with no margin for error and perfect accuracy in generating invoices, detailed statements and records for audit and in case of disputes. This also enhances your image with a client since there is transparency and accuracy in billing and accounting.

The beauty of this attorney accounting software is that it keeps accurate track of all your various bookkeeping, billing and accounting methods, generates reports for you, automatically generates bills periodically, payments statements, bank reconciliations, collection reminders and the important matter of trust bookkeeping and billing, in compliance with existing laws of your state.

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Legal Billing Software - Are Your Numbers Growing…for the Wrong Reasons?

It's the end of the month. Time to review your accounts receivable. If you compare the numbers to last month: they've definitely grown.

The good news? The firm's doing great, and work shows no signs of slowing down.

The bad news? Too many of your numbers are simply carried over from last month. What this means: there are balances going into arrears by 60 days, 90 days, and more.

If this happens once a year, it's no big deal. If this happens consistently from month to month and client to client, then it represents a waste of time, effort, bank account interest, and business proactivity. It increases stagnation, and decreases client commitment. What's more, the longer it takes a client to pay his or her bill, the more likely that bill is to go unpaid.

If this is you: don't panic. You're in good company. Regardless of size, law firms all across the country struggle with collections. You can throw manpower and energy at the problem. But if you haven't got a system in place to usher in your cash, then you're fighting a slow-and losing-battle.

We can help. Easy Soft's comprehensive legal time and billing software, Easy TimeBill, is designed to send out periodic and accurate reminders to your clients for balances due. In other words, the software does the work for you: it determines what the balance is, how many days your client has fallen behind, and any interest charges that apply. You simply click a few buttons-and off go your invoices: by email or printed snail mail.

Rig your collections system like a well-oiled machine. And your clients will start falling in line.

To learn more about any of our attorney time tracking software, call us at 800 905 7638.