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Calling All New York and New Jersey Inter-state Attorneys! – Family Law Software

You have divorce clients in New Jersey and New York.

We have the three software products that will make your life easier.

When you work on a NJ divorce, you need our Case Information Statement and Family Law Software.  Our program includes a 20-page Case Information Sheet for your client to complete, which you can import into the program.  The same data populates all forms, so that you are print-and-go ready.  All forms can be customized, and can be e-mailed to clients as .pdf or Word documents.

Our Child Support for NY includes forms you will need for New York divorce cases, like the Statement of Net Worth.  Use it for a New York state uncontested divorce or a highly disputed child support for NY clients.  New York utilizes child support and alimony formulas that are different from New Jersey.  Using two, specialized programs will help you to keep the math straight.

For both NJ and NY divorces, add ‘Divorce Financials’ to your trio of programs, and you’ll gain powerful tools to achieve your client’s divorce settlement goals for support and equitable distribution.  Our software allows you to generate divorce settlement worksheets to analyze potential outcomes before they happen, so that you can frame your arguments and negotiations to your client’s advantage.

When you put these tools together, you can work for clients in NJ and NY and feel confident that you are meeting the different requirements of each state.  Some elements will be the same, such as federal income tax rules around the taxability of alimony, conditions for termination of alimony, and rules on recapture.  But each state then has its own tax tables, its own child support formula, and, now New York even has an alimony formula.

With divorce financial software as your lynchpin, you can prepare tax-optimized settlements, relative to support and relative to assets and liabilities.  You can even compute pension valuations and alimony buy-outs.  And, if you’re looking at yet another self-employment case where the income tax returns don’t seem to line up to that Bentley Azure T in the garage, you can even use our divorce settlement software to prepare a lifestyle analysis.

Easy Soft is a software provider with more than 15,000 clients and 20-years of experience.  Our products are focused exclusively on what lawyers need to get the job done.

How could you cross the border without us?

Posted by Rick Kabra on May 7, 2012 in Family Law Software | Leave a comment
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Client-Interactive NJ Case Information Statement and Family Law Software

You ask us the same questions your clients ask you:  how can I save money?

If you’re practicing in New Jersey, our answer to you is the same answer you can give your clients:  you and your client can save time and money by using Easy Soft’s Case Information Statement and family law software.

Clients can’t do legal work – that’s why they’re hiring you, as a licensed professional, to advise and represent them.  But, what clients can do is tell you their story in a way that reduces the amount of time you spend collecting basic case information.

When you use Easy Soft’s Case Information Statement and family law software, you can e-mail your client the Case Information Statement as a .pdf or in Word document.  All of our software products are designed with the electronic communications used by modern law offices.  Clients are as busy as you are, and with our software you can quickly leverage technology to put the Case Information Statement into client hands to get them started on their data-gathering tasks.

With our Case Information Statement and family law software, completing the lengthy Case Information Statement with your client’s help is easy.  And, as soon as you get that information e-mailed back from your client, it can be electronically imported to a centralized data entry screen that populates all of the divorce forms.  Your clients will see immediate results and will appreciate the savings over spending two or three billable hours in conference with you.

Lest you fear that our Case Information Statement and family law software means your billing will go down, remember everything else for which you are responsible in the case.  You still have to calculate child support, figure out alimony, catalogue assets and liabilities and quantify a reasonable distribution.  All that, and we haven’t even listed custody.

Another reason to engage your client in the fact-gathering required for the Case Information Statement is to increase the level of detail you obtain.  It is one thing to ask clients questions in your office, but quite another to give them homework with blanks and spaces to be completed.  When a client is actively engaged in work that gets utilized by our Case Information Statement and family law software, you gain efficiency, a client who is happier with your billing, and a more thorough output in your Case Information Statement.

Single license for NJ-CIS software?  $299.  Technical support for one year?  Free.  The look on your face when your client gets you the information you need to complete the Case Information Statement?  Priceless.

Posted by Rick Kabra on May 4, 2012 in Family Law Software | Leave a comment
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Win-Win Divorce Settlement Made Easy! – Family Law Software

Think divorce has to be as tense for lawyers as it is for clients?

Let Easy Soft help you rethink your answer.

When you use Easy Soft’s Divorce Financials software, you gain the tools you need to make your winning argument for your client present itself as a logical, win-win resolution.

How can a divorce settlement proposal look like anything other than a bunny rabbit with one ear?

When a divorce settlement presentation is made that looks as professional as you present yourself to the court, your written papers take on an air of increased credibility.  When you’ve worked hard with your client to put together the biographical, budget, income, and asset and liability data, let our software help you present divorce settlement proposals in well laid-out presentation format.

Easy Soft divorce financial software contains numerous pre-loaded reports that are created with the click of a mouse to reflect the information you input.  Reports already in our divorce software include alimony comparisons, child support calculations, asset and liability distribution, pension valuation, and lifestyle analysis.

As one example, when lawyers write up divorce settlement proposals that involve alimony, they tends to show just one figure, less than the best figure, more than the minimum client-authorized figure.  While the lawyer’s own analysis might have included a range of figures for divorce settlement, that’s not how it is presented to the opposing counsel.

Consider the option Easy Soft gives you when you use our divorce settlement software, which is to use our pre-loaded reports to show the range of alimony possibilities.  The upper range figure might be the one you’ll request a trial and for which you believe you have a factual basis.  The lower range figure might still be above your client-authorized minimum.  And in between could be up to three, additional figures.  This 5-column alimony comparison chart could be presented to the opposing counsel as a menu of options for divorce settlement.  In other words, no alimony is not an option – these five figures are your range of settlement options.

With Easy Soft Divorce Financials, you can also show the opposing party how each of these alimony figures would be reduced by income tax deductibility (payor) or income taxability (payee).  Our divorce financial software even includes tax-optimized reports to reflect the projected income tax impacts of the parties to the case, based upon expected earnings and federal and state tax tables.

While divorce is an adversarial process by definition, our Easy Soft divorce settlement product comes complete with the opportunity to relieve the stress commonly associated with negotiations.

Easy Soft.  Our name says it all, even when it’s used in a divorce settlement.

Posted by Rick Kabra on May 3, 2012 in Divorce Settlement | Leave a comment
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Winning an Attorney Fee Award through Strategic Law Firm Billing Software

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.

Posted by Rick Kabra on May 2, 2012 in Legal Software | Leave a comment
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How to use your legal billing software to save you from saying ‘Who?’

The phone rings.  You answer.  You draw a blank and do not know who it is.

Short of dropping the phone or claiming a failed signal, you’re only going to have so long to keep someone on hold while you scramble for information.

If you have Easy TimeBill law office billing software, you’re saved.  Click on Reports, then Admin, then Client List.  Scroll down until you see the name.  Alternatively, click on Client, then Conflict Search, then instantly search your address book for a match.  No one likes to be forgotten, and with Easy Soft’s legal billing software, you’ll have the super-fast resources to refresh yourself as quickly as answering the telephone.

Keeping track of names of clients makes a difference, and so does keeping track of everyone making entries into the law office billing software.  Easy Soft can be expanded to include as many timekeepers as you have in your firm.  Adding timekeepers is a short, simple set of fill-in fields.  Keeping track of which partner, associate, paralegal, or assistant is working on a particular matter should not be left to memory.  Keeping your firm organized is just another great feature of our legal billing software.

Yet another aspect of the who game is the person calling for an initial consultation whose name sounds vaguely familiar.  You open your attorney billing software and ask how the person was referred, but get the response, oh, someone in a case, I don’t remember who.  Generally, this is code for referred because of something said by an opposing party.  It’s up to you to do that conflict check, and our attorney billing software makes that a cinch.

Here at Easy Soft, our goal is to make everything you do easier to do, and that includes keeping track of names.  Our legal software ranges from legal billing software to trust accounting software to divorce settlement software and more.  All of our programs allow an indefinite number of clients and cases and licenses to be purchased for all timekeepers in your firm.  Best yet, when you contact Easy Soft, you’ll never have to wonder who because we staff our phones with live operators, who will get to know you in order to help you with any questions you may have about our legal software.

With our commitment to customer relations and more than 15,000 customers, we’ve put our data management skills to work for you in every product we design.

Posted by Rick Kabra on May 1, 2012 in Legal Billing, Legal Software | Leave a comment
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Legal Billing Software that Does It All? Easy!

Ta-da!

This is what you will be saying out loud to your computer as soon as you install and start using Easy Soft’s Easy TimeBill Lawyer billing software.  Our attorney billing software does it all:  time tracking, billing, collections, calendaring, to-do lists, notes, grocery shopping.  Okay, not the grocery shopping.  But the feeling you are going to get will have you thinking that even the grocery shopping must be done, too.

Just imagine getting to the end of your month, pushing a button, and having your client invoices appear courtesy of your attorney billing software.  Daydream?  Reality.

Easy billing starts when you install Easy Soft’s legal billing software in your computer.  The installation takes only minutes, and our technical support operators are standing by, if you need help.  Set yourself up as a timekeeper, including your hourly rate.  Input a client by name and contact information.  Click on new time card, select the client, timekeeper, and task, and then click on the clock to start billing.  Within just a few minutes of the install of our law office billing software, and you’re billing with Easy TimeBill.

And, once you are inputting your time and expenses as you do the work, end of month bills will become as easy as clicking on new invoice.

Supervising billing matters through our legal billing software is as simple as clicking on billing and clicking on automatic reports like timekeeper’s time, client billing balance, and insufficient retainer balance.  Within one month of starting to use our attorney billing software, you can start analyzing your practice habits and profitability.

In the case management section of our law office billing software, you can manage your address book, calendar, task lists, notes, and linked documents.  When you click on the case management task list, you’ll see events organized by due date and client name and matter, as well as to whom the task is assigned to and the status of the assignment.

That’s it.  It is that simple to get started with the attorney billing software that does it all, meaning that the only handwritten item on your desk is going to be that grocery store list.

Posted by Rick Kabra on April 25, 2012 in Legal Billing, Legal Software | Leave a comment
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