Attorney’s
fees and costs are bantered about in nearly every divorce case. The
non-monied spouse thinks the monied spouse should pay. The spouse left
in the house claims the spouse who left is meant to pay. And the lawyers
bill over who should pay what to which lawyer.
Have
you ever stopped to consider that a successful claim for an attorney
fee award starts the moment your client first contacts your law firm?
The
first entry into your law office billing software is the beginning of
the business records you will provide to the court as evidence of the
professional services rendered, the expenses remitted, and the
reasonableness of your fees. The time to think about your client’s
attorney’s fee claim is not when you’re conducting trial; it’s when you
receive the request to schedule the initial consultation.
Easy Soft’s Easy TimeBill is the attorney billing software you need to document and present a winning attorney’s fee claim.
When
you use our legal billing software , you use an automated system that
clearly asks you to fill in essential billing information every time you
work on a case. Using legal billing software means that you will
repetitively see the same screen for a new billing or expense entry and
you will quickly master the data you need to input to complete your
billing entry.
Each
month, you can prepare invoices to send out to each client. Our law
firm billing software compiles invoices with all the time and expense
entries from all billers on a file, sorting them by case and then by
date.
When you are ready to submit your request for counsel fees,
just use our attorney billing software to reprint a complete set of the
invoices. The invoices will show the judge the work you have handled to
date, any advance retainer deposit, charges against the advance
deposit, and any outstanding balance. You can also us our attorney
billing software to print a ledger chart for the client’s deposit and
any overdue balance.
When you are ready for trial, you can
readily provide testimony about your use of our lawyer billing software ,
the business practice of the firm relative to client billing, and the
invoices generated on a monthly basis for your client.
And, when you couple Easy TimeBill with our powerful divorce settlement software, you’ll quickly learn just how easy it is to produce everything from invoices to divorce settlement proposals with the numbers that win.