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Maryland Lawyers Member Benefit Provider News

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Easy
Soft is now an official Maryland State Bar Member Association (MSBA).
Easy Soft now offers a 10% discount on legal software for active members
of the Maryland Bar.

Since 1986, Easy Soft has been one of the nation’s leading providers of law office software.

Easy Soft Products

The
company’s offerings include seamless and integrated legal billing and
account software , such as Easy Time Bill (ETB), time billing software
which has received rave reviews from lawyers and technology publications, and Easy Trust, our easy-to-use trust fund accounting software.

For
real estate lawyers and settlement agents, Easy Soft provides the
country’s no. 1 choice for software that helps them navigate and
generate the tricky HUD settlement statement (or HUD-1 form )-especially
in light of the new RESPA rules. It’s called Easy HUD, and it automates
most HUD form calculations-simplifying the financial portion of the
transaction, enabling pain-free adjustments and errors, and more-while
leaving the legal work to you.

For divorce lawyers, Easy Soft
produces Divorce Financials, family law software which simplifies
financial modeling for divorces. The divorce software has a vast array
of capabilities, but one of its best is the ability to show you and your
client-precisely and powerfully-the real-world financial impact of a
given divorce settlements, including analyses for present value, and
income taxes for both parties.

The “Easy” in Easy Soft

The
philosophy behind all of Easy Soft’s law office management software is
simple: you shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you work on a
case. At the outset, every piece of Easy Soft software captures case
data-one time only. For law office management purposes, that data is
inserted into your invoices, your ledgers and balance sheets, and your
trust fund accounting.

For
your clients’ cases, that data gets inserted into every piece of
documentation the case requires: be it a legal form, financial statement
(such as the HUD settlement statement, or HUD-1 form), and
correspondence with your client, or opposing lawyers. In some cases, the
software generates comparative analyses-and provides

In most
cases, our law office software performs any necessary calculations on
your behalf. If you’ve slaved over a calculator or an Excel spreadsheet,
or tried to get generic small business accounting software to deliver
needs specific to the management of a law office. This prevents simple
yet costly numerical mistakes-such as one that would be paid out over
the course of years (in divorce settlements), one that would affect your
title (in a HUD 1 situation), or one that would jeopardize your good
standing with your state’s attorney ethics department (in terms of your
trust fund accounting).

What’s Included

Typically, law firm software costs upwards of $400 for procurement, and hundreds of dollars more for training and support.

For
most of our software packages, our annual fees are just $300. All Easy
Soft software includes training, technical support, ongoing educational
support, frequent software updates and improvements, certain practice
customizations, and personalized (read: actual receptionists versus
phone menus) service.

With no limitations.

That is our level of commitment to our customers.

Why Do We Have Our Head In the Clouds

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Cloud computing is a major business buzzword today, even though many
of the people using it don’t really know what it means. We offer cloud
versions all of our law office management software , but you may be
asking a simple question: why are we doing it?

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.

Easy Calculations of Transfer And Property Taxes – HUD 1 Software

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How much fun is it to calculate and pro rate property and transfer taxes for a real estate closing?

Some might say: ‘about as much fun as going to the lawyer.’

Here
at Easy Soft, we’re perfectly happy to spend our days programming legal
software to make it easier for lawyers and their staff to provide top
quality professional services. So, why not give yourself and your
paralegal a break by letting us pro rate your taxes and calculate your
property transfer taxes… the Easy way?

With Easy Soft’s “Real
Estate Closing Software”, you gain a comprehensive City, County, School,
Condominium, and Sewer taxes proration module. You simply enter the
annual amounts of the taxes in their respective fields, enter the date
of closing, and let our Easy HUD Software prorate the seller’s
over/underpayments. Our legal software then automatically inserts the
prorated taxes into the appropriate lines of closing documents, such as
the HUD 1 form. No more counting days and crunching fractions.

The
“Easy HUD” law office software also contains the programming for an
automatic calculation of property transfer taxes. For nearly every
state, Easy HUD legal software already contains current formulas for
computations of property transfer taxes. As soon as you enter the sales
price of the property, “Easy HUD” calculates the appropriate property
transfer taxes. If your jurisdiction doesn’t appear on the list of
pre-programmed states, just give us a call, and we’ll program the
formulas just for you.

Easy
Soft’s HUD Settlement Statement software is being used right now in
forty states by thousands of real estate attorneys and their staff.
Among those closing attorneys is William Bronchick, CEO of Mile High
Title & Escrow, LLC, who wrote: “Took 10 mins to install and a day
to learn, and I taught my staff in just a few hours.”

Still
doubtful it can be this easy? Why not take our legal software for a test
drive? Every one of our software products can be downloaded in
demonstration format. You’ll have a chance to see the screens, fill in
the fields, push buttons, and print out forms. Of course, we also back
our law office software by a 30-day money back guarantee.

When it comes to a real estate closing, it’s no fun, if it’s not Easy.