PCLaw^™ Billing & Accounting Software

PCLaw® Billing & Accounting Software provides a powerful, easy-to-use solution for time tracking, legal accounting, trust accounting, billing and more in one integrated package. PCLaw can help your firm manage your books more efficiently, expedite your billing process, and enhance overall practice management.

PCLaw is the most widely used law firm back-office management system in North America. PCLaw streamlines your back office and dramatically reduces time spent on tracking time and fees, creating bills, writing cheques, managing client trust funds, and more.

• Capture more billable hours and expenses — PCLaw helps ensure that you record and bill every minute you spend on a case. Flexible tools allow you to track time from your desktop using Microsoft® Outlook® or LexisNexis® Time Matters®.
• Manage client billing more efficiently — PCLaw expedites the billing process with flexible and easy-to-use billing designed for law firms. You can bill matters individually or en masse, customize bill formats and designs, and choose to bill by matter, client, responsible lawyer, type of law, and more.
• Ease concerns over trust accounting and compliance with regional rules — PCLaw helps take the anxiety out of managing trust accounting by reliably recording trust receipts and cheques by matter. Built-in safeguards help ensure you do not overdraw on clients’ accounts, and reports easily track all trust accounting for individual matters.
• Enable time tracking on the go — With PCLaw, you can capture time when working out of the office on laptops, home computers, or PDAs, and easily transfer information to PCLaw for billing.
• Improve cash flow and get paid faster — PCLaw helps you get your bills out faster, allowing you to collect outstanding balances promptly. Aged receivables reports detail which clients owe you money and allow you to track notes that can be used in collection efforts.
• Better analyze your firm’s performance — PCLaw provides on-the-fly financial and productivity reports by client, lawyer, type of law, and matter to help you make more informed business management decisions.
• Gain access to outstanding technical support — PCLaw offers online resources and training videos, classes held in training centres across North America, local training through certified independent consultants, and web, telephone, and email support

PCLaw® Billing & Accounting Software gives you an integrated time, billing, and accounting solution that helps reduce the administrative workload of running your practice — from time tracking to trust accounting to calendars.

With PCLaw, you get time billing and legal accounting software to meet a range of legal-specific needs.

• Flexible, easy time tracking — Use PCLaw time sheets or pop-up timers — or track time directly from Microsoft® Outlook® or Microsoft® Word. Automatic spell-checking, user-defined explanation codes, and custom matter billing rates ensure greater accuracy.
• Billing and accounts receivable — You can bill matters individually or en masse. PCLaw supports flat-fee, task-based, split, contingency, retainer and electronic billing. Invoices support allocation of fees between multiple lawyers and can be customized. PCLaw also helps you identify outstanding balances and generate collection memos.
• Integrated credit card processing — Use PCLaw integrated credit-card processing to conveniently accept client payments and improve cash flow. (Requires high-speed Internet service.) Learn More
• Trust accounting made easy — PCLaw takes the anxiety out of fulfilling your local trust regulations. Manage your disbursement and receipt transactions for all of your clients and thousands of trust bank accounts.
• Cheque writing and banking — Write and print cheques from your trust or general bank accounts and use PCLaw bank reconciliation tools. Write cheques for your firm and client expenses. Every entry updates journals, client ledger, and general ledger.
• General ledger and financial statements — PCLaw general ledger and financial statements provide quick access to up-to-date financial information.
• Productivity reports — Key productivity reports help you easily identify your most profitable staff and practice area by time, billing and collections.
• Free conversion of QuickBooks® or Timeslips® data — Easily convert your QuickBooks accounting system or Timeslips billing data to PCLaw legal billing and accounting software. We offer free conversion of data, including customer and job information, unbilled time and expenses, accounts receivable details, and client trust details.
• Practice mobility — PCLaw includes a module that provides time tracking from laptops and remote computers. Optional modules integrate with your Palm® OS handheld, Pocket PC or Windows Mobile® device, or BlackBerry® wireless handheld device.
• Integrated online payroll — LexisNexis has joined forces with ADP to offer easy-to-use, secure, integrated online payroll designed to save you time and effort. (Requires high-speed Internet service and comes at an additional charge beyond the cost of PCLaw software.) Learn More

• PCLaw Brochure (PDF, 1,773K).

PCLaw® Billing & Accounting Software gives you an integrated time, billing and accounting solution that reduces the administrative workload of running your practice and helps you manage everything from time tracking to trust accounting to calendars.

PCLaw Certified Independent Consultants (CICs) are located across North America and can provide your firm with expert training and support when implementing PCLaw in your practice.

Learn from your colleagues. The PCLaw® technical support group fields hundreds of calls each day. Answers to some of the more common questions can be found here, saving you from calling and, perhaps, waiting for a callback.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Technical Support department has compiled a list of common questions. In this document, we have addressed these questions in an effort to clarify some of the key issues with which our users are faced.

• PCLaw FAQ (PDF, 807K)

Overview

The purpose of the LexisNexis® Practice Management forum is to establish and maintain an online community where PCLaw, LexisNexis® Time Matters®, and LexisNexis® HotDocs® users and consultants can come together to share knowledge about our Practice Management applications, tailor these applications to individual needs, and develop specialized solutions.

This forum is managed and moderated solely by LexisNexis Practice Management Certified Independent Consultants (CICs) and is for the benefit of licensed LexisNexis Practice Management customers, as well as other CICs. CICs are not employees, agents, representatives, resellers, or contractors for LexisNexis. CICs are independent professionals whose primary focus is the training and support of customers. LexisNexis provides the infrastructure to host the forum, but does not participate in the management or moderation of the forum.

There is no cost for using this forum, and a support agreement is not required. However, you must be a licensed user of LexisNexis Practice Management products and conform to the protocols of the forum to participate.

This forum is not intended to replace LexisNexis Practice Management product-specific customer service or technical support, and users should generally call their software provider first for problem solving. This forum will focus on tailoring LexisNexis Practice Management applications to individual needs and developing specialized solutions.

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Messages should include your name, firm name, city, and province; the version of the product you are running; your basic operating and computer system information; and your current status regarding working with LexisNexis Practice Management technical support (remember to call technical support first). Anonymous or alias posts will not be accepted.

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