More and more of our clients have been requesting that we assist them with monthly legal accounting maintenance functions. As a result, we are pleased to announce that we are now offering a full range of these services at a flat fixed monthly fee.

The following are a sampling of the types of services we can perform for you:
 

• Data File Integrity Checks
• Backups
• Posting of Payroll Data
• Month End Close Out
• Bank Reconciliations
• Spot Checking Reports for Accuracy
• etc.

Purcell, Flanagan, and Hay was founded in 1996 as a boutique law firm specializing in Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Administration and Litigation, Tax Controversy Litigation and Planning, as well as, Business Law. The main office of this law firm is located in the historic district of Jacksonville, Florida overlooking the St. Johns River, with two satellite offices located in Amelia Island and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The firm, consisting of 4 partners and 7 associates with 12 staff members, is utilizing a Windows network to connect their 3 offices through terminal services. Purcell, Flanagan and Hay utilizes the entire Tabs3 accounting package for their time, billing and bookkeeping. Automated Horizons, Inc., was recently employed by Purcell, Flanagan and Hay to upgrade and customize their existing PracticeMaster case management system to Version 14. They are planning to link PracticeMaster with the Worldox document management system and HotDocs Document Assembly in the near future.

Lexis Nexis recently announced the release of the latest version of its award winning practice management software, Time Matters 8. We are excited to share with you some of the new features available in the greatest release of Time Matters yet. Here are our top five new features of Time Matters 8:

• Email Documents as PDFs - While it has always been easy to email a document stored in Time Matters, it is now just as easy to convert that document to a PDF before sending it. Because most legal documents are emailed in PDF format, this is a significant time savings for Time Matters users.
• Enhanced Outlook Integration - Regarding information from Time Matters can be displayed when you highlight a Contact, Task or Email in Outlook. Also, Outlook users can be prompted to save to Time Matters when sending an email, saving an appointment, task or Contact in Outlook.
• Inactive Staff and Classification Code options – Now you can set former employees' staff codes as inactive in Time Matters to eliminate long drop down lists yet maintain vital historical data. Classification codes can also be set to inactive status to eliminate and clean up firm classification options.
• PDA & Smartphone Integration - Time Matters now offers synchronization support for Windows Smartphone and Windows Mobile 5 devices. Synchronize your contacts, calendar and more from your PDA and mobile devices directly to Time Matters.
• Windows Right-Click send to Time Matters - Now right-clicking on any document on a Windows PC will present a menu option to send that document to Time Matters. This new and easy connection is one more way to save time and energy while managing your practice.

PCLaw 8 was recently released and there are many new features and improvements to the product. They include:
 

• Track Time from Microsoft Word and Outlook and send to PCLaw for billing
• Enhanced bill design capabilities includes drag-an- drop tokens, an alignment tool, and custom calculations
• Charge client expenses as a percent of fees
• Save client bills as Adobe PDF File to the Matter Manager for quick retrieval and review
• Receive payments for multiple matters belonging to different clients
• Financial Accounting & Reporting Enhancements
• Track write-off of time
• Mass write off, reprint or unbill multiple bills in one step
• Change lawyer billing rate as of effective date
• Enhanced MS Outlook synchronization