Pretty much every business has a computer network now. Even fast food
restaurants tie all their cash registers into screens in the kitchen to
coordinate the front and back of the house. In a legal practice, law
office management software links employees over the network, allows them
to coordinate their actions and giving everyone access to a central
database of case information.


But wait…is that a good thing? Do you want every worker having access
to every piece of information? Of course not. Modern legal billing
software gives the option of sharing, but also gives the option of
limiting access.

The enterprise version of Easy TimeBill stores
billing information, case details, calendars, documents and a host of
other data on a central server. Any employee on the network can read and
change this information, but only as long as that user has the correct
permissions set by the system administrator.

An office manager
will have high-level permissions set up in the practice’s legal software
programs so will be able to look at everything. The manager needs to
have a full view of current cases to ensure work is being done,
deadlines are being met and court dates are on the calendars of the
relevant people.

An attorney will have broad permissions set up
in the law billing software , but probably only on the cases that lawyer
is working on. If the attorney needs information on some other case, it
will be necessary to talk to the attorney assigned to that case rather
than accessing the information directly.


A paralegal would also have access to relevant cases in the law office
management software but not at the same level as the overseeing
attorney. The paralegal might be limited to read-only access to some
information, and might be barred from even viewing other data.

A
billing clerk would be limited to generating invoices in the law office
billing software but there would be no reason to give permission to
read case notes, and certainly no reason to allow the clerk to change
any information.

So although the enterprise version of Easy
TimeBill creates a more open data structure, it doesn’t do so at the
risk of security. You retain full control over data access in all of our
law practice management software so only the right people get access to
sensitive case files.

Contact us to find out more how EasySoft’s legal software programs automate and simplify your legal practice.