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File information - Instantly Accessible

Client matters are the building blocks of your practice. You open a new file for each new matter. Everything you do and everything you bill revolves around these files. Amicus Attorney understands this. Moreover, it makes all your files and all of the information you have stored in them instantly accessible, better organized and much easier to use.

Just by clicking on a file you can see all the associated people, appointments, tasks, documents, research, time spent, letters, e-mails, faxes, phone calls and more - or a complete chronology of every action performed on the matter. You can draft documents, plan the next steps, review the matter history, and report to your client.

Quickly produce different types of status reports. Customize your own pages of information to track whatever you need to in your practice. You can even save some or all of the steps of a typical transaction as a “precedent” to re-use next time you have a similar type of matter. Or link events according to the legal rules of the jurisdiction of the matter. Everything is at your fingertips.

Calendar - Manage your day.

The Calendar in Amicus Attorney provides comprehensive scheduling that works the way you do. Manage appointments, tasks, deadlines for you as well as for every one else in your workgroup or the entire firm.

The Calendar is flexible and allows you to display your information in a wide variety of formats. Create and save customized calendar profiles, identify and schedule shared resources or use the handy date calculator. Link events for rescheduling together. Automate your court docketing. The convenient Group Schedule allows for easy identification and scheduling of group meeting times.

Flexible appointment reminders make sure you never miss an appointment.

E-mail notification of new and changed events means that nothing slips through the cracks.

Keep track of the People in your practice.

The People module is a truly flexible and powerful Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) tool that stores all of the relevant contact information about each person you interact with in your practice.

For each person you can see complete contact information including lists of events, communications, files, documents, relationships and more. Start a phone call or a letter, send an e-mail or go to a web page with one click of the mouse.

Easily stay in touch with clients with valuable business development tools and reminders.

Conflict of interest checking will help you reduce risk in your practice.

A universal inbox for all of your communications.

Stay on top of all your communications in the ComCenter. Track e-mail, phone calls and messages all on one screen.

Know whom you need to get back to – and whom you are waiting to hear from. Completely integrated with your files and information about each person you are talking to. So with a single click from a phone message you can remind yourself of who they are, what their file is about, and what was last done. You’re more in control when it’s all in one place!

One-click time entries ensure that you bill for all of your communications, including your e-mails, whether sent or received.

Amicus Attorney integrates with Outlook®. So whether you are working in Amicus Attorney or Outlook, all your e-mails are tracked, cross-referenced and available for one-click billing. Keep track of your time. Bill more time, more easily. While you work, Amicus Attorney is in the background, keeping track of what you are doing. It will often present you with a time entry, completely filled in for you. Or you can create new time entries with handy shortcuts, far easier than scribbling them out on paper. Use the timer if you like – it is handy on every screen.

Send time entries electronically to your accounting system, so that time gets to the bookkeeper faster, more accurately, and without anyone having to retype it. Ensure that bills never go out without all your time on them. See the time on a file. See cross-sections of your time by activity, file type, date range and more. Review your time by day, week, month or year. Be alerted when you have forgotten time entries. Check out how your billable hours compare with your goals for the year.

Take Note!

Use the “magic” legal pad for fast recording of any action item, note, fact or task.

Record anything at any time as a note. No details dialog to call up, no buttons to click, no selections to make – just get that thought down while you are thinking of it. Then later you can cross-reference the note to a particular file, or convert it into a different type of record. Or send notes as messages to colleagues.

Integrated knowledge management.

The Library in Amicus Attorney is a unique knowledge management tool that integrates legal research into individual client matter files and incorporates general legal research into the rest of your practice. Using the Library, you can keep all of your information resources, such as documents, memos, computer files as well as online services and Internet or Intranet sites at your fingertips.

The Library is a firm-wide repository for research and expertise. You can store information in personal and firm-accessible sections that grow with your practice. It can also act as a gateway to online legal research and other resources and allows you to track access to paid services.

The incredibly flexible organization structure can be tailored to your specific needs. All Library information can be filtered and searched.

Powerful and Flexible.

Revolutionary, cutting-edge technology works behind the scenes to power a wealth of functionality. All you see is the easy-to-use graphical interface that Amicus Attorney is famous for. The industry leading SQL relational database provides superb performance, reliability and multiple cross-references between all of your information types.