TechnoLawyer: Accounting/Billing/Time Capture

Below you'll find one of the five articles from today's edition of TechnoLawyer NewsWire:

Delegate Time-Tracking to Your Smartphone
By Jill Bauerle
When lawyers venture out of the office, they often fail to track their time in real-time, opting instead for a memory dump when they return to the office. This common practice can result in lost billings. But don't blame these lawyers (they're rightfully focused on performing legal work). Instead, blame their technology — or lack thereof. What lawyers need is mobile technology that can eliminate the hassle of real-time time tracking. Enter AIRTIME Manager's AIRTIME-A4P, a clever utility that resides on your BlackBerry or Palm Treo. After completing a call or sending an e-mail message, AIRTIME-A4P asks you if you'd like to bill the time spent on that activity. With one click, you can effortlessly capture that time. AIRTIME-A4P fills in all the blanks, such as client/matter and the time spent on the call or e-mail, and then wirelessly sends your captured time entry back to your office. In addition to capturing billable time, AIRTIME-A4P can also record expenses. In a nice touch, AIRTIME-A4P features a third option — not recording the time. After all, you might want to make a personal call every now and then. AIRTIME-A4P gets even better over time (no pun intended) as it can adaptively learn about new clients from calls and e-mail messages you receive. After returning to your office, you can access an AIRTIME-A4P report listing all your time entries and edit them as needed. Installing AIRTIME-A4P occurs wirelessly — AIRTIME Manager wirelessly beams the software to your mobile device. AIRTIME-A4P works with all popular time entry and time-billing systems. Pricing is simple, success-based, and revenue-neutral — AIRTIME Manager charges a transaction fee only when you use AIRTIME-A4P to recover time. You can pass through this fee as a client reimbursable expense. Learn more about AIRTIME-A4P.

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Coming August 10, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Mark Sargis reviews ProLaw READY, Jason Havens reviews Microsoft Small Business Server 2003's VPN functionality as well as AbacusLaw Gold and Lawgic, Kath Gilliam discusses the shortcomings of firewalls regarding spyware prevention, Neal Rogers discusses why lawyers have not yet embraced Groove Virtual Office for collaboration, and Virginia Burrows shares some invaluable advice for configuring old HP printers with Windows XP. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming August 10, 2005 to TechnoLawyer NewsWire:  In this issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, you'll learn about a time-tracking utility for all the billable work you perform on your BlackBerry or Treo, a new search utility that bypasses OCR for greater accuracy, free accounting software for small firms, a utility that can batch convert image PDF files into searchable PDf files using Acrobat 7's built-in "Recognize Text" technology, and a new line of duplex scanners designed for law firms.

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Coming July 28, 2005 to Answers to Questions: James Chaffee explains how to fix a common problem with the e-mail component of Time Matters 6, Cliff Scovell discusses several possible fixes for similar problems with Time Matters 5, Bernard Mac Arthur discusses two products designed to prevent spyware rather than delete it after the fact, Ron Fox explains how to set up QuickBooks for trust accounting, and Sam Brenner provides a tip for protecting your firm's laptops. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming July 27, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Jason Havens reviews his firm's experience with a Health Savings Account, Brent Blanchard explains what maximum annual limit (or stop-loss) means with regard to an HSA, Mark Sargis discusses the top five reasons his firm uses ProLaw, Lawrence Briggi provides an invaluable tip for litigators who apply Bates Stamps to PDF files, and Tim Larason shares his solution for WiFi interference problems (this Post also includes a postscript on WiFi phones). Don't miss this issue.

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Coming July 11, 2005 to TechnoGuide:

Your Search Engine Rank; Driving Ross Crazy; Have You Learned Anything?
By Neil Squillante

In this issue of TechnoGuide, Neil Squillante discusses search engine optimization and the importance of link building. This issue also contains Quips about Travan tape drives, Microsoft Office on a Mac, cell phones in the courtroom, and the benefits of a Certificate in Forensic Economics. This issue's Questions inquire about confidentiality when outsourcing, CiteIt, PCLaw's P&L reports, scanning to PDF, 64-bit laptops, and accessing peripherals remotely. All that plus the Question of the Week.

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This Thursday's edition of Answers to Questions contains a detailed review of PCLaw used in conjunction with Time Matters and the Treo 600. In the meantime, TechnoLawyer member Peter Conway offers this Quip on the same topic: "I have been using PC Law for a number of years and a Treo 180 and now Treo 600 for the past few years. I had PCLaw help me set up the synchronization link and it has worked just fine. I only enter a handful of timeslips into the Treo each month (generally when I am in court)."

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Coming June 30, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Tom Pavone reviews his firm's use of PCLaw, Time Matters, and the Treo 600, Steven Pena reviews a clever telephone messaging service that enables you to avoid wasting time talking to lookyloos and telemarketers, Sean Tierny reports in with important news about a mouse for lawyers and others with hand tremors, Brian Garves provides tips on keeping scanned PDF files small, and Donna Johnson discusses how to use Summation's CopyCase feature. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming June 29, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Jason Havens compares AbacusLaw to Amicus Attorney for case management, Scott Bassett reviews PCLaw's Palm OS integration, Michael Schley discusses why he considers the Fujitsu ScanSnap a "jewel of a scanner," Jesse Farr reviews Time & Chaos as a case management substitute, and Bryan Morin provides WordPerfect printing tips. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming June 20, 2005 to Answers to Questions: Thomas Daly reviews his firm's three years using Stamps.com, Jim Garrison explains why you should not store critical e-mail messages in your e-mail program, David Ventker discusses a "nuclear option" for getting rid of spyware, David Hudgens reviews PCLaw for front and back office, and Mark Grantom discusses a free remote access solution. Don't miss this issue.

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Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Answers to Questions is a thrice weekly newsletter in which TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers (including you if you join TechnoLawyer). Like all of our newsletters, it's free. Please subscribe now.