Crime Case Management and Billing
The LAWFUSION Crime system can make light work of the increasing level of administrative hurdles within this sector. This comprehensive offering allows criminal departments and firms to profitably handle large criminal case loads. It caters for all stages of criminal work right through from Police Station Investigations to Crown Court Representation. The system has specialist criminal time recording options 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.
Benefits for You
LAWFUSION Crime Case Management is integrated case management software designed to help law firms handle more cases in less time. Other benefits include:
- It reduces your backlog of cases waiting to be billed.
- It frees up your Fee Earner's time.
- It replaces the services of your cost draughtsman.
- It generates all relevant documentation automatically at the touch of a button.
- It gets the most from your legal cashiers expertise by reducing repetitive, labour intensive tasks.
- It ensures your matters are claimed on time, with the correct rates and fees, and on the right forms.
- It simply, accurately and speedily records all the required records of time, actions and expenses.
Standard Features at a Glance
The LAWFUSION Crime is intuitive, user-friendly and has many features specifically designed for today's busy criminal law firm. For a more detailed information about some of these standard features visit our Crime Case Management Standard Features page or click on one of the links below.
- Auto completion of Forms (CDS7, CDS18, CDS11, 5144, +Others).
- Monthly Bulk Upload of submission to LSC’s Online system.
- Specialised crime time recording system allowing quick and easy entry of time, expenses and attendance notes.
- Scheduling and management of Police Station Duties.
- Scheduling and management of Court Duties.
- Configurable diary views to oversee and manage team appointments.
- Easy entry and claiming of court duty sessions with automatic update and entry on to the accounts system.
- Case costing and billing at all stages of work with bills and payments automatically updated in to the accounts system reducing duplication of entry.
- Ex Post Facto Crown Court Billing (Standard & Non Standard).
- Customisable attendance note print styles incorporating note detail, time and expenses.
- Document and Case Management.
- Customisable workflow procedures to ensure firms policies are adhered to.
- Automatic data capture on strategic action triggers.
- E-mail Production and Management.
- SMS Text Message Production.
- Comprehensive Reporting Suite and billing analysis.
- Multi Level Enquiries with drill down capability.
- File Reviewing and Management System.
- Centralised address book to record your everyday contacts and addresses, reducing duplication and management.
Optional Features
- Assessed claims manager module including appeals management & LF2 production.
- Litigator Graduated Fee claim calculation and production of LF1.
- Advocate Graduated Fee claim calculation and production of 5144F.
- Post Room Solution for managing post scanning and distribution.
- Document assembler for bundling of documents together.
What our Customers Say
Cartwright King Solicitors
Top 250, East Midlands, UK number one defence law firm, Cartwright King has recently purchased the LAWFUSION Crime Case Management solution. Cartwright King chose LAWFUSION after looking at a number of different suppliers and was particularly impressed by the software’s ability to be tailored to meet the needs of the firm’s different departments.
“LAWFUSION is the perfect software solution, and from a personal point of view, I love it! It really does make my job easier. I can manage and control data and produce the reports I need to do my job effectively. The bottom line is that I can get all the information I need to make important decisions with confidence. I would recommend LAWFUSION to any firm regardless of size. I do believe that it would add real value to any firm. It is user friendly, has the functions you want and need, and it does the job it’s designed to do – it works. I think it’s brilliant.”
Yates Adern Solicitors
Criminal Law Specialists, Yates Adern have offices in Ashton-Under-Lyne and Oldham and have been using the LAWFUSION Crime Case Management system since 2004.
“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.”
Specifically Designed
No software project can positively impact the efficiency and profitability of a crime law firm like the selection and implementation of a good case management software system. Efficient, profitable and customised case management is only possible by using a computer system that is specifically designed for criminal legal aid work.
LAWFUSION Crime Case Management encompasses all the tools you'd expect in a high-end case management system with the simplicity that has made it one of the most user-friendly case management systems available.
Further Information
For further information or to arrange a demonstration, please contact the Select Legal Sales Department on 01482 644334 or complete our information request form.
Select Legal is a leading provider of legal software solutions. We are a Law Society-accredited software supplier and a member of the Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA).
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