Legal Software

Spend Time with Your Real Estate Client, Not Your Real Estate Document Software

Busy, busy, busy.  It’s spring and real estate attorneys are busy.

The question for any real estate attorney is how much time to spend with pieces of paper and how much time to spend with the client.  When the matter is fixed fee, like a house closing, having time to both prepare real estate forms and prepare your client can feel like a losing battle against the clock.

You need Easy Soft’s real estate document software.  Our real estate closing software includes every form you need for closing, including deeds, affidavits of title, and even real estate document management checklists.

Our real estate document software is designed for you to enter the essential information only once, while the program automatically populates all corresponding fields of the pre-loaded real estate forms.  Instead of having to fill in each form manually, typing names, addresses, and other buyer and seller information, just type that data once into a central screen and let Easy Soft do the rest.

Another way our real estate document software saves you document preparation time is the automated calculations for all of the taxes associated with the purchase or sale, along with other closing costs.  And, if you reschedule the closing, Easy Soft’s real estate document software will automatically make all necessary adjustments to the figures.

If you’re interested in saving even more time with computer interface so that you can spend more time in client face-to-face, why not pair our real estate document software with our Easy HUD software?  Adding our HUD software to your computer means that you can produce RESPA-compliant HUD settlement statements with an ease that will put a spring in your step.

The one additional suggestion for automation efficiency is to add a third product, our attorney trust accounting software?  Easy Soft’s trust accounting software allows you to quickly and correctly manage all client funds related to real estate closings, including balancing funds in escrow, writing checks to realtors through water authorities, and offers reports ready to share with your client at the click of a mouse.  We even offer software-compatible checks on our website as part of our product offerings.

These three products together at less than a total of $750 will make handling real estate closings so easy that you’ll have time to drink a cup of coffee with your clients.

Posted by Rick Kabra on May 8, 2012 in Real Estate Closing | 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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Short Sale? Easy Soft HUD Software to the Rescue!

Options can be limited when a homeowner needs to get out from under a mortgage on a house that just won’t move.

One option is the short sale, an alternative to mortgage default and foreclosure, agreed upon by both the home owner and the mortgage lender.  Any unpaid balance is a deficiency, which the lender could elect to forgive or the lender might covert into an unsecured, reduced rate loan.

When you represent a homeowner in a short sale, you are going to have to prepare the HUD-1 closing forms.  The process begins with a preliminary HUD settlement statement, which is provided to the lender with the proposed closing figures.  The content is no different than a third party sale, and will include transfer taxes, release fees, attorneys fees, and any other expenses.

Unlike preparing for a house closing to a third party where the sale price is already under contract, the short sale may involve multiple drafts of the HUD-1 closing forms.  The proposed short sale to the lender might be rejected and go through several rounds of negotiations.  Do you want to have to prepare HUD forms over and over without the ease and accuracy of using Easy Soft’s HUD software?

With Easy Soft’s software for HUD forms, you enter key data only once and the software completes all the calculations.  For example, in the short sale, you can enter a proposed sale price for the property as well as a proposed closing date.  All computations, down to the penny, can be pro rated over and again, and the only data you have to change is the price and/or the date.  How’s that for easy HUD software?

As a companion to Easy Soft’s HUD software, try Easy Soft’s Real Estate Document software.  You’ll receive more than 200 forms to help you with all of your real estate closings.  When you purchase these two software programs, you’ll be using software packed with even the automated ability to compare the Good Faith Estimate with the HUD-1 and see alerts if estimates exceed a 10% tolerance.

It’s not a happy day for homeowners when they’re facing a short sale, but with Easy Soft’s HUD software, at least we can bring a smile to your face.

Posted by Rick Kabra on April 24, 2012 in Real Estate Closing | Leave a comment
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HUD-1 Closing Forms Plus 199 Additional Reasons to Buy Easy HUD

Paper, paper, and more paper.  We’re so glad we don’t have to produce all of the closing documents on your list.  We’ll stick with writing legal software, thank you very much.

But, what we have done for the real estate bar is prepare 200 closing documents one time, so that you can produce them multiple times for your multiple clients.  Our Easy Soft real estate document software contains 200 real estate documents you need for closings.  When you pair it with Easy HUD, you combine it with all of the necessary HUD forms.

What else?

Simply click on this link for our Easy Soft real estate document software, scroll down and look on the right, where it says ‘Real Estate Docs List.’  Click on that link and you can examine the full list of documents we’ve packed into our software.  It’s all the forms you routinely use, like the HUD-1 Settlement Statement, along with the forms you occasionally use and wonder if you should use.

When you see this list of documents included in our real estate document software, you will see the need for automation.  With Easy Soft, we’ve designed our HUD software and our real estate closing document software to instantly populate forms for each client, as soon as you provide basic information in a single screen.

Another feature that comes with these pre-loaded real estate documents is the flexibility to customize them.  Don’t worry that the forms we’re including will be rigid and not to your liking.  At the least, our real estate document software gets you started with templates, which you can easily edit and craft our templates to suit your own style.

The other thing that comes packed in our legal software is room to grow.  Once you have become familiar with these two real estate programs, you can upload your own real estate forms into our real estate document software and convert your own forms to include fields that will likewise auto populate.

We know that you lawyers are used to doing the persuading, so with the Easy Soft real estate document software we’re giving you 200 persuasive reasons to say yes.  With licenses starting at $199, our real estate documents are less expensive than your morning cup o’ Joe.  How can you say no to that?

Posted by Rick Kabra on April 20, 2012 in Real Estate Closing | Leave a comment
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