As standard with LAWFUSION firms get the digital court bundle generator. This module is popular with lawyers across several areas of law, particularly PI lawyers as PI bundles can be incredibly complex and time consuming to put together.  The Bundler offers features such as automatic page numbering and contents page creation. Users use a bundle template adding to it files and documents to as they are preparing for court. When happy with the bundle it is saved out as a PDF incorporating all the necessary paperwork for court and this is saved to the case in LAWFUSION ready for the court appearance.
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The LAWFUSION Costs Management Module was developed to provide tools which enable firms to control costs for all multi-track cases.  LAWFUSION will produce the entire 9-page Precedent H pulling information from relevant areas of the case management system to produce the detailed breakdown re costs incurred pre-trial as well as predicted future expenditure including disclosure, costs for expert reports, fee earners’ time, counsel fees, contingents and disbursements etc.  LAWFUSION users are able to customise litigation costing templates that come with the software as standard and use them on a case-by-case basis to allocate time, disbursement and expense budgets against cost stages. Traffic light style warnings highlight to fee earners when cases are nearing cost limits allocated. Also for firms carrying high ‘work in progress’ LAWFUSION offers milestone management for high value civil litigation cases.

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As well as storing outgoing documents, attendance notes and emails, all incoming correspondence can be scanned and viewed in the case history.

This provides a complete history of each PI case file including photographs i.e. accident site and physical injury, scanned forms/documents and other graphics related to the claim, making them all instantly available to all relevant members of staff at the click of a mouse.

Document version management is also available allowing full and sub-revisions to be produced. A version tree clearly shows a documents history.

All LAWFUSION modules are fully integrated with each other.  As a PI letter or form is created within case management a set amount of time can be apportioned to the case.  Alternatively the user can be prompted with a suggested time booking ensuring no time is missed and accurate time records are maintained whilst giving the user full control over the actual time recorded and billed. The system also provides a start/stop clock which remains on screen for the user whenever they need it and for those fee earners with time targets to meet.  The LAWFUSION target button graphically presents KPIs such as today’s recorded time, billing and cash received on a monthly and year-to-date basis.

With PI Claims the need to record disbursements for hospital record fees, court fees, GP note fees, source agents fees etc. can all be recorded and managed in LAWFUSION, which provides an accurate  breakdown of all transactions. Alternatively fee earners can produce an accounting chitty to simply record costs against the relevant case. Full posting requests and direct posting options are available allowing users to manage ledgers directly or to simply notify accounts of a posting request.