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Criminal work has always been a difficult area to work in. The increasing level of administrative hurdles within this area of work has put off many firms opening a criminal department. The LAWFUSION™ Crime system addresses this, offering a comprehensive administrative suite to handle large criminal case loads.
It caters for all stages of criminal cases right through from police station investigations to Crown Court representation. The system has a specialist Criminal Time Recording option along with key stage billing options, as well as the general document and Case Management functions you would expect in a modern system. The system is highly configurable to ensure it fits in with the existing working practices of any busy law firm.
“After considerable evaluation of various systems, I decided to purchase the LAWFUSION™ crime system with its' integrated Accounts, Management and Billing System. The particular aspect that impressed myself and my partners is Select Legal's willingness to both understand our business and the commitment to the future development of our system. I was also impressed with the overall management of the project and the efforts that the company and its' staff demonstrated to my company when installing the system.”
Tim Chapman, Managing Partner (Yates Arden Solicitors)
The Crime suite comes with a flexible and tailorable workflow system which includes a set of precedents as standard. The system is easily modified to meet with the methods of your firm and will enable you to monitor and track the key steps and stages involved in individual cases.
All standard letters and documents can be called up in an instant, automatically assembling and pre-populating the information from the case, (Defendants name(s), Court details, bail dates, etc) saving the Fee Earner having to constantly re-enter the same details more than once.
All correspondence can be managed through the system whether it be letters, emails or faxes. The system can also convert documents into PDF format to make them more secure when sending them via email.
LAWFUSION™ incorporates a full Time Recording facility as standard with a specialised crime time entry system. Entering time for cases automatically records the correct rate in accordance with the LSC fees' structure. The Crime system enables quick and effective costing and billing of all work and includes the production of the Magistrates and Crown Court bill forms.
LAWFUSION™ centralises your everyday contacts and addresses for things like police station, courts, prisons, counsel, probation officers and social workers, other relevant parties can also be stored and maintained by the system centrally. This facility ensures the immediate availability of all contacts to your staff. If a contact needs to be change it only needs to be amended once for the system to automatically recognise the change and reflect it in every case thereafter.
As standard, LAWFUSION™ Crime includes a full practice diary and task planner for individuals, case files and court dates. Add an appointment or activity just once i.e. a specific hearing date and the system will reflect it against the appropriate individual, crime file or court.
The diary and planner can also be synchronised with Microsoft Outlook so they can be exported to your laptop, ultra mobile phone (Windows Mobile) or PDA, which gives the constant availability of information wherever you are.
