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Accounting, Time & Billing Systems:

PCLaw™ Billing and Accounting Software

Designed specifically for law firms, PCLaw™ is the most widely used legal billing and accounting system in North America and is trusted by more than 30,000 customers worldwide.

PCLaw offers a comprehensive collection of powerful, yet easy-to-use tools for time and expense tracking, billing and receivables, trust accounting and more in one integrated package, which can help keep your practice financially organized and healthy

Benefits

Capture more billable hours and expenses

Manage client billing more efficiently

Improve cash flow and get paid faster

Ease concerns over trust accounting and compliance

Better analyze your firm’s performance

Flexible, easy time tracking
While in the office, track time the best way it suits you – create entries using a traditional time sheet, or run timers through PCLaw or directly within Microsoft Outlook, Word and Internet Explorer. For remote staff or while on the go, PCLaw offers options for laptops and satellite locations, and an add-on Travel Edition (TE) module to manage information on BlackBerry® or Pocket PC mobile devices. More info >>

Billing and accounts receivable
PCLaw supports flat-fee, task-based, split, contingency, retainer and electronic billing. Pre-bills and bills can be run individually or in batch with stock or customized layouts, and PCLaw can help you identify outstanding balances and generate collection notices. Use PCLaw integrated credit card processing to conveniently accept client payments and improve cash flow. More info >>

Accounting and trust made easy
PCLaw takes the anxiety out of fulfilling your local trust regulations by offering easy-to-use tools to manage your disbursement and receipt transactions for all of your clients and thousands of trust bank accounts. Integrated general journal and customizable general ledger, with available options for transferring accounting data to a 3rd party accountant consolidates and simplifies your firm’s accounting.

Accounts payable and banking
Print 1099s for your vendors, and manage your vendors and payables with integrated accounts payable. Write and print checks from your trust or general bank accounts for firm or client expenses, and use PCLaw bank reconciliation tools to keep your accounts in balance. Every entry updates journals, client ledger and general ledger.

Comprehensive reporting and financial statements
With hundreds of standard reports available, PCLaw can give you unparalleled insight into your firm’s time and expenses, staff productivity, billing and collections and overall financial well being.

Integrated online payroll
PCLaw has joined forces with ADP® to offer easy-to-use, secure and completely self managed integrated online payroll designed to save you time, effort and cost. More info >>

Data conversion
Through free utilities and available paid services, PCLaw can ease your transition from an existing billing or accounting system. Convert customer and matter/job information, unbilled time and expenses, accounts receivable details, client trust details and more without the need for time consuming and error-prone re-entry of information.

AMICUS ACCOUNTING:

Fast & Easy Time, Billing & Accounting For The Law Office.

Law firm accounting productivity begins with Amicus Accounting! This powerful time, billing and accounting software package combines legal accounting and billing into one application. Developed strictly for law firms, Amicus Accounting is rich in versatile features. It's a complete standalone financial management package for your firm with comprehensive financial and management reporting. Delightfully simple to use, Amicus Accounting can be used as a standalone tool or combined with Amicus Attorney to integrate your front and back offices with one all-inclusive practice management solution.

Get started quickly and easily.

Amicus Accounting's multitasking environment provides a simple-to-use interface designed to make completion of day-to-day tasks more intuitive and efficient. It's a familiar graphical interface, similar to Amicus Attorney 7. Note how the layout follows your workflow and lets you move between screen views quickly and instinctively.

Keep track of your Time.

Processing time can be a time-consuming process! In Amicus Accounting, all time-related activities can be performed from the Time Module, including hourly or flat-fee time entry, billable and non-billable entries. You can quickly edit unbilled time entries (or write-off unbilled time entries) and transfer time across clients and matters. Keep track of your Expenses.

Enter and manage everything related to expenses, from recording expenses and editing unbilled expense entries to transfer expenses across clients or matters. You can even write-off unbilled expense entries. Once you've completed your task, you can then quickly issue individual payments or batch process your checks. Generate Bills.

This flexible billing program enables you to generate bills for either individual client files or for all client files by name, matter number or file number, and by any combination of Responsible or Assigned Lawyer, File Type and Billing Cycle. Of course, not only can you create bills, you can also reverse and print bills - for single clients or multiple clients. Amicus Accounting also offers pre-billing functionality, the ability to reprint bills, plus it can issue A/R reminder statements, with (or without) interest! Manage your Receivables.

The Receipts module is amazingly flexible. It allows you to receive payments and post them against invoices any way you like. Record payments from clients and identify outstanding accounts. Manage write-offs, credits, refunds and fund transfers. Any way you receive money, Amicus Accounting can administer it. Keep up on Payables.

Amicus Accounting offers a broad Accounts Payable Module that allows you to add, edit and pay vendors, or automatically reverse checks. Utilize the onscreen drilldown capability to modify A/P invoices. You can also quickly view key vendor information here (through the "vendor inquiry" button). In addition, this module offers support for forms 1099 and 1096. Check Writing.

Write checks to pay and post client expenses in a single step. Trust checks can be written on behalf of a client or general ledger trust account. Integrated security features help prevent trust overdrafts when writing a check. General Ledger - Complete Accounting Capability.

A comprehensive G/L with a fully reportable audit trail is included in the package. Automatically post G/L entries for day-to-day accounting! This is the place for account and budget maintenance. You can even view bank balances, as per the system's records. This is a complete accounting software package - no need to link to anything else. Your bookkeeper will thank you.

Total Trust Accounting.

Trust accounting is one of the elements that differentiates legal accounting from general business accounting. Amicus Accounting's extensive Trust Accounting Module includes recording receipts, enter and editing trust checks, plus the ability to transfer trust funds to pay A/R invoices. Transfers can come from regular or interest-bearing trust accounts. Robust Reporting

Amicus Accounting includes more than 50 reports, including Billing Reports, Management Reports, Financial Reports and Income Statements. Client Matter Details & Account Inquiries.

Clients are the heart of your business and the beginning of any billing process. The detailed Clients Module lets you create and update everything related to client matter details in one easy-to-navigate module. This includes the ability to track transaction by client and matter! And as an additional security feature, you can control access to the screens people view, so if you don' t want anyone to change your Client Matter information, you can lock everyone out. The Inquiry Module provides secure, view-only access to key accounting information, including client matter files, general ledger and vendors data. Since it's "view only," nothing here can be edited or manipulated.

The Client Matter Details screen and the Account Inquiry screen show a wealth of critical information. With a click of the mouse, you can see all the client data and account information in one central location! In addition, you can access time, expense, trust and A/R details with drilldown.

There's So Much More! Supports three accounting methods: cash, modified cash and accrual accounting Includes Work in Progress (WIP) reporting Administer security with ease by assigning functions and users to groups A "keyboard-friendly" application Support for UTBMS codes and task-based billing

Integration with Amicus Attorney.

Amicus Accounting is a simple, intuitive and standalone legal accounting package. Why not enhance your law office productivity by partnering Amicus Accounting with our practice management solution: Amicus Attorney? Create a total front and back office system you and your staff will love. Post your time in Amicus Attorney and it automatically goes to Amicus Accounting!

Benefits of using Amicus Accounting with Amicus Attorney:

Robust time, billing, accounting and practice management package Single data entry point for File, Time and Expense entries Firm members can easily access their client and billing information from their desktops One vendor - one solution, for all your support needs.