Domestic lawsuit is an inseparable component of American life. Nearly every person has been directly or indirectly concerned in divorce, custody, or domestic violence dealings. Taking this factor into account one can easily deduce the umpteen numbers of cases that piles up every day. Now the scenario is same in New York too. Thus you can imagine the work load of New York family law professionals. Good news for New York family law professionals that Easy Soft has updated its Comprehensive Family Law Software Suite for the exacting requirements of New York .

What difference does EzSupport-NY make to NY family law professionals?

With EzSupport-NY, family law software, New York family law professionals can significantly augment productivity and services for clients. This software is explicitly developed for New York family law professionals.

Efficient Functionalities of EzSupport-NY family law software

EzSupport-NY effectively manages all the essential facets of a family law practice. With EzSupport-NY , New York family law professionals can:

Generate New York Statement of Net Worth and Support Worksheets.

Perform data entry and understand calculations, with an easy to use, uncluttered user interface

Enter an unlimited number of Assets, Debts and Expenses (budget items), using the Automated New York Statement of Net Worth . It is essential to note that all calculations are automated.

Utilize the automatic calculations offered by the Integrated Temporary Maintenance Worksheet and Child Support Worksheet (UD-8).

Experiment and compare multiple support scenarios within the same client file.

Instantly locate the best possible scenario for client.

Avail fully customizable forms.

Save forms in Word or PDF and email, all within the program.

Track time spent with a built-in timer.

Produce log statements for billing purposes.

Soon, will have an ability to add unlimited number of New York family law forms such as, correspondence or litigation documents.

Produce consistent and error free documents in a click of a button.

Wow-Really exciting family law software, isn’t it. What’s more, all of these services are available at reasonable pricing and there is also a 30 days unconditional refund policy. Thus it is clearly evident that EzSupport-NY is a prized possession for any New York family law professional.

Author Bio

Easy Soft specializes in helping law firms automate their processes, streamlining repetitive tasks and work flow. Practice management software such as law firm software and family law software.

The problem with generic billing solutions is they
are just that: generic. They offer features common to all business
models and that’s fine for most companies. After all a toy store and a
flower shop deal with the same concepts of inventory, invoicing and
taxes and don’t need software tailored to their specific industries.

However
legal practices have specialized requirements that only law practice
management software can provide. You might be able to cobble together a
solution that lets you manage trust accounting or divorce financial
settlement with generic billing solutions but it generally means your
office has to do more work to ensure all the legal requirements are met.
You might be able to drive a nail by hitting it with a wrench, but the
job is easier if you use a hammer.

Easy TimeBill allows multiple
rate levels for each attorney. Built-in time clocks allow attorneys to
easily switch among multiple matters over the course of the day without
having to keep complicated paper records of their time on each case. The
software automatically compiles hourly charges and expenses for
invoices, ensuring each client is billed correctly.

Easy
TimeBill is more than just law office billing software . It includes
trust accounting features to simplify the process of tracking and
reconciling funds for multiple trust matters, even if all funds are
pooled in a single trust account. Attorneys can also manage their to-do
lists, case notes, and calendars all from one easy-to-use interface. The
application includes built-in conflict checking so attorneys won’t
inadvertently create a conflict of interest that could jeopardize a case
resolution.

Specialized industries require specialized tools.
Don’t try to adapt generic software solutions to the unique and
meticulous needs of the legal profession. Use only the dedicated law
practice management software solutions produced by Easy Soft so you know
you are getting all the features you need.

Stop right there! The legal retainer is
different from other professions. It’s simple. The state says that
until you’ve earned the money, it doesn’t belong to you. To put it in
legal terms, possession does not equate to ownership-at least not when it comes to retainers.

Therefore, unearned retainers-particularly ones that won’t get used quickly-go into trust accounts , not operating accounts . Breaking this is considered a serious ethics violation-and you don’t want to face the consequences.*

So How Do You Keep Track Of The Money?

Even if you have the greatest legal billing software in the world (and of course we think that’s Easy Time Bill ): without a compatible trust component, you put yourself, your firm, and your career at tremendous-and unnecessary-risk.*

That’s why it’s not only helpful, it’s imperative for you to have escrow software or trust accounting software, too. It’s imperative for your law firm billing software to work hand in hand with that escrow (or trust accounting ) software.

To be clear: attorney billing software without trust account software
is like having a calculator that only adds, and doesn’t perform any
other functions. To multiply or subtract, you have to use another
calculator.

Trust accounting softwarewithout legal billing software
is like having a factory that only makes the bottles. You have to go
somewhere else for the caps-and they’re not designed to fit.

That would be ridiculous, right?

In comes Easy Soft . Our Easy Time Bill and Easy Trust
products are designed to work hand in hand. When the two pieces work in
tandem, the system tracks what you’ve taken against what you’ve earned.
You no longer need to tell the difference between the two: your
compatible law office software system does that for you.

Our next post will explain how it works.

*State ethics departments have a tendency to audit law firms at random.

A Permanent License gives your company full access to
one of our legal software programs forever and also includes one year
of free technical support. With a Permanent License you pay a single fee
up front and don’t have to worry about any additional fees later. You
can buy additional licenses if the software will be installed on
multiple computers, and these licenses are priced lower than the primary
user license. This is the best legal software licensing program from an
economic point of view because it costs your company the least in the
long run.

Another option is to buy an Annual License. When you
purchase an Annual License on one of our law practice management
software products you can use the software for a year with full
technical support. As with Permanent Licenses, additional user licenses
will be necessary if you will install the software on multiple computers
but the additional licenses are priced much lower. This could be an
option for companies who don’t have the assets for a Permanent License,
who want to use our legal software programs for only a short time, or
want to try out the product for a year before committing to a Permanent
License. In the latter case we’d like to point out you can get free
demos of all of our products and we offer a 30-day, no-questions-asked
money back guarantee that might be better options for taking test
drives.

The
third choice is to buy the cloud version of our law office management
software rather than the desktop version. When you buy the cloud version
you use the software on our servers over a secure internet connection
rather than installing the software on your office computers. The Cloud
License is a monthly fee and includes full updates and support as long
as you continue to subscribe to the service. The Cloud License also
includes automatic backups of your data nightly.

Our law practice management software is flexible, and so are our licensing options. Contact us for help choosing the best legal software licensing option for your firm.

We considered cloud versions of Easy Soft legal
software programs such as Easy TimeBill for quite some time before
committing to the idea. We are well known for producing some of the best
legal software around and we didn’t want to jeopardize that reputation
based on some vaguely-understood new technology. In the end we realized
cloud computing would give us, and by extension our customers, three big
benefits.

First, it gives us better control over our law
practice management software. Our cloud clients are always using the
latest, most secure and most fully-featured version of our products. We
can update the software as much as we need to and yet our clients don’t
have to worry about applying patches or whether or not some background
process will interfere with software.

Second, it gives our
customers better data security. The data from our cloud users are stored
in professionally-managed data centers that are able to deploy a level
of protection that most legal practices wouldn’t be able to afford. The
data is backed up nightly so customers can be sure their information is
safe even in the event of major disaster.

Finally, it allows us
to offer our legal software programs to a broader audience. For years
we’ve had people asking why we don’t offer versions for Mac OS or Linux.
Although we’ve looked into converting our products to other platforms,
unfortunately we’ve found it wouldn’t be cost effective to support
multiple operating systems. However with cloud computing, you can use
any operating system since our applications are all based on the
internet. You aren’t actually running them; we are.

This
allows us to offer law office management software that works on tablets
. Tablets are cool, but really don’t have much computing power compared
to desktops and laptops. However to access cloud versions of our
products, you just need a device that can connect to the internet.
Imagine a real estate agent completing HUD forms and then emailing a
copy of the form to the client, all while sitting at the client’s dining
room table. With cloud computing, you can do that.

Does this
mean we are abandoning the desktop? Absolutely not. We see no reason to
stop developing the best legal software for Windows computers. The two
versions each fill different needs.

Contact us if you need more
information on which version of our law practice management software ,
cloud or desktop, is right for your practice.

Why should this matter to your selection of legal software ?

UTBMS
was released by the American Bar Association Litigation Section in
2002, after the American Corporate Counsel Association had used a task
force to develop the codes. It grew out of a need recognized by Attorney
Sally Fiona King and her experience overseeing outside counsel invoices
on behalf of her corporate legal department.

The goal in
creating uniform billing codes used in legal billing software is to
group individual activities by various people into the same or similar
types of legal work product. There are different sets of codes for
different types of cases, such as one set of UTBMS codes for litigation
cases and another for Worker’s Compensation cases.

The
UTBMS uniform codes used in Easy Soft’s legal software allow attorneys
and clients alike to understand and strategize the use of resources for
legal projects. Should there be more emphasis on client communication,
negotiations, legal research, or drafting? In the Easy Soft attorney
billing software , these UTBMS law office software billing codes are
selected and print side-by-side to the description for services
performed.

One easy way to evaluate the strength of features
offered by Easy Soft’s TimeBill and Trust Accounting software is to
review the legal software comparison chart put together by the American
Bar Association. The ABA chart highlights the important features of
legal billing software and trust accounting software of Easy Soft and
several of our competitors. In this head-to-head comparison, you can see
from the ABA chart that Easy Soft’s “Easy TimeBill” and “Easy Trust”
attorney billing software are affordable, packed with features like the
UTBMS billing codes, and fully tech supported for your law office
operations.

If you and your client want monthly bills that are a
useful tool for legal resource allocation, then you need the Easy Soft
legal billing software and trust accounting software with UTBMS billing
codes.We’ve been waiting for you to come along since 1986. Don’t you
think it’s time that we got together?

While you weigh the advantages of an integrated Attorney billing and trust accounting software , consider this. As a bookkeeping concept, trust accounting is fundamentally different from other types of accounting. It’s way more detailed. It must be capable of:

Supporting monthly bank reconciliations.
Producing three-way – not just two-way – reconciliation statements.
Furnishing details about general ledger balances, i.e. whether funds have cleared the bank.
Preventing common trust accounting mistakes, such as ledger card overdrafts, co-mingling with other ledger cards, duplicate check numbers, etc.
Printing checks, deposit slips etc.

Easy Time Bill closes the loop. Our legal billing software provides the following information at a glance:

Unbilled Balances: The legal billing software totals recorded but unbilled time and expenses.
Unpaid Balances: The billing software totals billed but unpaid time and expenses.
Operating Retainer Balance: The billing software displays each client’s current retainer balance-as it sits in your firm’s operating account.
Trust Retainer Balance: The billing software displays each client’s current retainer balance-as it sits in your firm’s trust account, or escrow account.

Viewing these four balances for each matter at a glance increases your accuracy-and puts you in control of your responsibilities, your accounts, and your cash flow. Specifically:

If the Unbilled Balance exceeds your comfort zone, you can invoice immediately-rather than waiting

until a scheduled billing date.
If the Unpaid Balances are rising, you can start sending payment reminder letters-along with overdue invoices.
If your invoices are unpaid, Retainer Balances are available, and your client engagement letter allows

you to do so, you can apply the balances to your unpaid invoices immediately.

When you have both software systems, your accounting suddenly works like magic.

Easy, right? That’s why it’s called Easy Soft.

Author Bio

Easy Soft specializes in helping law firms automate their processes, streamlining repetitive tasks and work flow with law practice management software. Practice management software such as law office billing systems and legal time tracking software.

Rather than using law office billing software
some practices prefer to hand off all financial matters to an outside
accounting firm. Invoices, checks and other financial records are simply
shipped off to the bookkeepers and forgotten about.

Although
outsourcing is a valid business tactic to allow any business to focus on
core tasks, it doesn’t take ultimate responsibility away from managers
and the company owner. Managers still need to be aware of the practice’s
current financial state. Monthly bookkeeping reports don’t provide
information as quickly as in-house law office billing software and that means the firm won’t have time to react to sudden financial events.

Law office billing software
gives law firms the ability to keep abreast of the practice’s financial
condition. At a glance authorized users can see outstanding invoices,
balances owed by client, and easily record time and expenses incurred on
a case. The law office management software is so easy
to use that in many cases it actually takes less time for attorneys to
enter information themselves than to pass records to a bookkeeper.

In fact practices often find that law office billing software makes the practice’s bookkeeping so simple
they can do without outside financial help. Not only do the firms have a
better understanding of the organization’s cash flow, but they can save
money by not hiring unneeded financial services.

Of course even
the best law office billing software can’t take the place of a qualified
and certified professional. We recommend you consult with an accountant
periodically to ensure your organization’s finances are on the right
track. The frequency of consultation will depend on the size of your
organization. Single-attorney practices might be fine seeing an
accountant once a year while large firms might need monthly meetings.

However
law office billing software takes the drudgery out of day-to-day
bookkeeping as well as providing powerful tools designed to help you
track expenses, bill clients and collect fees owed. Find out more about
Easy Soft’s law office management software by downloading a demo or contacting us for information.

Most legal time and billing software companies offer you email only or limited # of phone calls type technical support. When this runs out, you procure your own-or use their-additional training and setup through a subcontractor typically charging $125/hour and up.

You might say this sounds adequate. But even if you yourself are technically savvy, consider:

Your fellow attorneys, paralegals, assistants, and any new hires-an unknown factor-might need additional handholding.

You’ll need to explore your new software extensively-through time-consuming trial and error-to figure out its particular efficiencies and special features. But why reinvent the wheel ?

You’ll never be in complete control of your PC. Machines go down, and when they do, you’ll need expensive contractors to recover systems and data-unless you have an all-inclusive software package.

In contrast to the standard legal time and billing software package, all of Easy Soft’s software packages are all-inclusive. For one low yearly cost, Easy Soft provides all of the technical support, educational support, and setup advice that you need for every piece of legal software you purchase from us.

We believe we are the only major legal software company in the U.S. whose prices include:

Software License.

Complete Unlimited Training for your attorneys and staff

Unlimited US Based Phone/Email Technical Support -crucial in the event of outages, breakdowns, data loss, etc.

Personalized Service . During business hours, a human being always answers the phone.

One Nominal Yearly Fee , so that you can plan your annual budget accordingly.

No Add-On Fees -ever for these services.

In total, your software costs for the year will probably add up to less than one (1) billable hour for a single attorney in your firm.

So you get a) the incredible price, and b) worry-free technology geared specifically toward making your legal practice the most easy and effective it can be. Click here to view our complete software catalog.

Author Bio

Easy Soft specializes in helping law firms automate their processes, streamlining repetitive tasks and work flow. Practice management software such as legal billing systems and legal time and billing software.

No matter how honest and careful you are about
avoiding conflicts, do you really remember every single person you have
dealt with in your career and all of their associations? A
missed connection might be a genuine oversight on your part, but last
time we checked “oops” was not considered a strong legal defense.

You
need to be scrupulous about avoiding conflict, and yet laboriously
checking through hundreds or thousands of case files takes an enormous
amount of time and past associations are easy to overlook. Hey, wait a
minute–aren’t computers good at those kinds of tedious jobs?

Easy Soft’s law office billing software, Easy TimeBill, does more than simply track your billable hours and expenses. This law practice management software
maintains a database of the names of every person your firm has
associated with, including clients, witnesses and vendors, as well as
their associations with your past and present clients. In seconds you
can discover any conflicts that might undermine your case or threaten
your firm.

Then again even the legal time and billing software can’t do all
the work for you. Our law office billing software conflict checker is
thorough, but it still depends on you doing your part. Successful
conflict discovery requires three easy steps.

First, create a
thorough list of contact names for each case and enter them into Easy
TimeBill. To find the contact list click on “Case Management” in the
lower left corner of the law office billing software screen and then on
“Address Book” in the upper left.

Second,
link each contact with the client in a case. Click on “Client” in the
lower left corner of the law office billing software screen and then on
the client name listed in the upper left section of the screen. Click on
“Client Relations”, which is listed along the top of the screen, to
bring up current relations and add new ones.

Third, run the law
office billing software conflict checker. As in the previous section,
click on “Client” and then the client name, but this time click on
“Conflict Search” in the top bar to bring up the search screen. Enter
search text such as the name of new client’s firm to see if there is any
conflict with previous cases.

You must be diligent about
entering complete information on every client no matter how trivial the
case might seem at the time. It takes only one missed contact to create a
serious problem for your practice.

Conflict Check is one of many features included in Easy Soft’s time billing software reviews. Contact us for more information on our products or try a demo of one of our legal software programs.