Legal Accounting Software that Grows with Your Firm

LAWFUSION Accounts can be implemented as a stand-alone or integrated solution and is suitable for any size of legal practice, from small firms to larger regional multi-branch law firms.

All features are available as a standard ensuring you get maximum return for your investment. Whilst a firm may not require all of this functionality at first, it can be exploited at a basic level and additional functionality utilised as the firm grows. This allows you to concentrate on running your business, confident that the system has the capability of growing in-line with your firm without major reinvestment.

Key highlights include the number of time-saving features, easy to use on-screen enquiry facilities and superior level of management information.

Benefits for You

Using LAWFUSION Accounts in your firm can bring you many benefits, including:

• You get a truly integrated system.
• Monitor and improve your cash flow and get paid faster.
• Customise your billing routines to fit in with your way of working.
• Save time and eliminate errors.
• Get a flexible business-led rather than technology-driven solution.
• It is easy to use, allowing your staff to concentrate more fully on their areas of expertise.
• Better analyse your firm’s performance with our comprehensive reporting suite.
• Gain immediate access to all your accounts record.
• Maximise your IT efficiency with Microsoft Integration.
• Have total security and confidentiality in your accounting system.
• Ease your concerns over legal compliance.
• Get peace of mind with our prompt, effective and high quality support services.

Essential Accounting Features as Standard

LAWFUSION Accounts is a solution which from day one offers a truly complete and integrated legal accounting System. This means many features and benefits, only available as expensive add-ons with other legal software systems, come as standard with LAWFUSION Accounts.

For more detailed information about all of these standard features visit our Legal Accounts Standard Features page or click on one of the links below.

• Professional Nominal Ledger
• Purchase Ledger
• VAT Ledger
• Cash Book
• Debt Chasing
• Deposit Interest Calculator
• Comprehensive Management Reporting
• Cheque and Remittance Printing
• Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
• Key Performance Indicator Monitoring

Monitor and Improve your Cash Flow

Cash flow and working capital requirements are probably high on the list of business concerns facing any law firm. This is especially true for smaller law firms. LAWFUSION Accounts has been developed to help you collect money from your clients as quickly as possible.

• The system incorporates flexible aged debtor reports and a debt reminder letter module which can produce up to 4 reminder letters as standard. This uses Microsoft Word and can be set-up and implemented across the firm or for specific Work Areas/Fee Earners in a matter of minutes.
• For the more commercial firm the system can also produce client statements.
• Support for telephone based debt collection procedures is provided through specific screen displays linked to a computerised debt diary for keeping on top of debtor’s responses and the follow-up actions needed.
• A configurable cash flow report is provided as standard.

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Customise your Legal Billing Routines

All firms bill differently and LAWFUSION Accounts will allow you to customise your legal billing procedures to suit the way you work.

• Your billing process can be started manually or on any pre-set condition including the WIP, Disbursement or Lockup (WIP, Disbursement and Unpaid Invoice) limit being reached.
• Billing templates can be set-up to allow production in the firm’s style.
• Billing guides and Time reports can be produced and used as the basis for billing. Alternatively, the system can be used to bill and produce a printed bill for the value of WIP (when it has reached a certain figure) or a set amount.
• Multiple Fee Earner apportionment options are available including automatically apportioning fees based on time booked.
• Disbursements not yet incurred can also be added into the bill.

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Save Time and Eliminate Errors

Most cashiers’ offices are busy places. LAWFUSION Accounts provides many short-cuts to help cashiering and accounting staff avoid errors and speed through their daily workload. These include:

• Default transactions that provide posting templates for repetitive postings.
• Before and after balances checks.
• Automatic SAR’s rule checks regarding client side debits and office credits.
• The ability to add new payee and transaction descriptions directly from the posting screens.
• The ability to correct and re-post a posting error with just one-click whilst preserving all of the required auditing record etc.
• All posting screens are colour coded to match your posting slips. Cheques can be printed as part of the posting routine or batched for later printing. Colour coding of balances are also supported, i.e. a revenue account with a debit balance.
• Automatic audit and verification reports are produced overnight and spooled for later viewing and printing.
• All other reports, such as matter full lists, can be set to automatically produce and sent to Partners/Fee Earners as required.
• Custom toolbars can be created to match your working requirements.

Also, for Criminal and Civil Law firms, integral to LAWFUSION Accounts are automatic CDS (Criminal Defence Services) and CLS (Community Legal Services) fixed fee billing and payment postings and CDS and CLS submission reporting. Visit our practice management for criminal law firms page for more information.

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Flexible

LAWFUSION Accounts offers both flexibility and scalability in order that customers receive a business-led rather than technology-driven solution. This means that it is equally at home in small, medium and large sized firms and, no matter what type of work is undertaken, the system can be customised to accommodate your firm’s exact accountancy, auditing and day-to-day cashiering requirements.

• It can cater for multiple cashiers and multiple branches.
• It can handle multiple open periods which means no end of month or end of year bottlenecks.
• It is highly configurable, especially in areas of account structures, nominal structures, access and analysis.

LAWFUSION Accounts is also fully integrated into the Practice Management, Case Management and Time Recording Systems to provide further time-saving features.

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Easy to Use

We have worked hard to make LAWFUSION Accounts easy to use because we know that in today's fast moving working environment it is important to have software that fits in with your current working practices. The system is designed to help staff quickly get up to speed with the accounting routines, reducing the amount of training necessary and enabling them to focus on their real roles.

• Intuitive set-up wizards that will get you going quickly and accurately.
• Easy to investigate matters with intuitive enquiry screens and one click financial enquiries.
• Easy to view and print screen reports.
• Easy to make posting requests and automatic postings.
• Easily generated bills with flexible styles and formats that your clients will understand.

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Comprehensive Reporting Suite

LAWFUSION Accounts has a comprehensive reporting suite, with many features, including over 50 standard reports and Key Performance Indicators as well as a sophisticated report writer. Reports can be exported to Excel, PDF and also attached to e-mails.

The LAWFUSION Accounts Report Writer supplements the standard reports that are available on the system. Information can be selected from any area of the Accounts system, filtered according to your specific selection criteria, and incorporated into a report. The layout of these reports, e.g. content, grouping, sequence, etc., can be tailored to meet your exact requirements.

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Immediate access to all your accounts record

LAWFUSION Accounts allows users to easily search and retrieve any electronic or hard copy records stored on the file. This saves time and is extremely effective, ensuring important documents and information are never lost or “misplaced”.

Subject to security levels you will get immediate and up-to-date access to all accounting records.

• Find clients, matters, suppliers, nominals, transactions, bills, credit notes or any other records you might need, in seconds using intuitive “query-by-example” enquiry screens.
• If the exact information you need to search on is not to hand, the system can also handle partial or “fuzzy” searches.
• Transactions are never removed from LAWFUSION Accounts so a full history is always available.

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Microsoft Integration

The LAWFUSION Accounts System is a 100% Microsoft Windows SQL Server product. This means you can improve business decisions through the use of familiar tools such as Microsoft Office Excel, Word and Outlook. Microsoft SQL Server is a trusted and productive data platform that enables you to reduce the time and cost of development and helps you to maximise your return on investment and increase your IT efficiency.

Visit our Microsoft Integration page to find out more.

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Total Security and Confidentiality

LAWFUSION Accounts allows all your staff to fully utilise the system without compromising security and confidentiality. Security and access is easily configurable and under your control.

• You can control access at a user level, to specific nominals and matters, down to specific posting, report or menu options.
• Full audit trail and transaction reports are available.
• Access can be password protected.

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Legal Compliance & Standards

For all solicitors, compliance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority Rules (SRA) is vitally important. This is especially true if your firm is involved in conveyancing or handles large amounts of client money on a regular basis. A typical legal practice will employ people from many backgrounds and for different roles, including bookkeepers, accountants, practice managers and legal secretaries and keeping them all informed in the intricacies of accounting rules can be quite a challenge.

The LAWFUSION Accounts package has been developed to make SARS compliance easy. The software warns you whenever a problem occurs and the necessary reports are produced in seconds. Our experienced legal accountancy and cashiering support team are always on hand if ever you need advice or guidance.

LAWFUSION Accounts is fully compliant with the Solicitors Accounts Rules (SARS), Lexcel and the Legal Services Commission’s requirements. Select Legal Systems are also a member of the Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA) whose aims are to set and maintain standards within the legal software industry.

Visit our legal software compliance page to see more about our commitment to legal compliance and practice management standards.

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On-line Help, Professional Training and Support

Select Legal Systems are committed to continually improving customer care and quality of service. We have a very loyal and growing client base because we strive to improve on our high client satisfaction rates each year. We are particularly proud of being rated consistently high in the "ongoing support" and "quality of training" categories of the Law Society Software Solutions Guide.

• Professional training and reference manuals come as standard.
• For more “hands-on” staff, the system includes comprehensive context sensitive Windows style on-line help.
• All users have access to our support portal. This provides a knowledge base, access to the latest manuals, our bi-monthly “Did you know flyers” and all of your support calls.
• Your firm does not stand still and neither does LAWFUSION. New processes are added regularly and usually distributed free of charge to all our clients.
• All this is backed up with professional support from our experienced legal accountancy and cashiering staff.

Visit our LAWFUSION Support Services page to find out more.

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