In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, technology journalist and freelance writer Taeho Lim covers a comprehensive online service for litigators, and a "back office" accounting and time-billing program and "front office" case management program that integrate with each other. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
Empower Your Front Office
By Taeho Lim
What's in your front office? A receptionist, comfy leather sofa, and a coffee table with some magazines and newspapers? Nice. But I wasn't asking about that front office. I mean your digital front office — the one you use for interacting with your clients and managing your calendar and matters.
What's that? You don't want to show it to me? Sure, I understand. You may want to take a look at the just-released Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters 9.0.
Understanding that email remains the killer app, LexisNexis has reengineered Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters 9.0 integration not just with Outlook, but Microsoft Exchange Server. So if you want to migrate to Windows Vista and Exchange 2007 or add a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, go right ahead.
Come to think of it, better managing your matters so that you can stop and smell a few roses before you push up the daisies is also a killer app. The new "Task Panel" enables you to find what you need quickly. Similarly, enhanced "Triggers" should also make life easier. For example, when you change a contact from "prospect" to "client," Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters 9.0 can send an alert to your assistant to begin the client intake process.
Also new in Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters 9.0 is the ability to create five user-defined record types. Thus, in addition to creating contacts, appointments, tasks, matters, etc., you can create anything else your firm needs to track such as assets, damages collected, etc. LexisNexis has also beefed up the number of colleagues you can associate with a matter, event, etc. — it's now 100, up from 6.
Other new features include a more powerful search tool for conflict checking and other searches, a customizable personal journal for reviewing your matters, events, tasks, etc., auto-completion when searching for contacts and matters, an improved and updated CaseMap link, and smart archiving that warns you about incomplete items.
Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters 9.0 is easier to set up than ever before, thanks to seven new wizards and five default security profiles (you can create more if needed). It integrates tightly with new Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters 9.0 or Lexis Back Office powered by PCLaw 9. Learn more about Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters 9.0.
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