It's time software fit a lawyer's bill; firms of all sizes and practices should be able to find suitable time-and-billing programs

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Many time-and-billing computer programs are available for lawyers, or for service professional in general, and most can help improve the overall management of a practice. The different programs have varying degrees of emphasis on legal clerical functions and accounting bookkeeping ones, or front and back office. The most important element in making a choice is the list of administrative tasks it must do. Time Matters, Timeslips Deluxe, Carpe Diem, Amicus Attorney, and PC LAWjr are examined; the latter two optionally link.

Accounting, Time management

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A data base can lighten mundane marketing tasks; three software systems make a law firm marketer's most creative client-contact initiatives a lot less cumbersome

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There are software programs which can help a law firm maintain information necessary for aggressive client development, such as lists of seminar attendees, newsletter recipients, and lists of client contacts. Even if not used for marketing, personal contact data can be given to anyone in the law firm who interacts with those contacted. Programs discussed are Cole Valley Software's Legal Ease, Advanced Productivity Software's Marketecture, And Maximizer Technologies' MultiActive Maximizer.

Client development, Maximizer Technologies Inc., Cole Valley Software, Inc., Maximizer (Contact manager), Marketecture (Contact manager), Legal Ease (Contact manager)

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Practitioners make perfect in a simulated courtroom; for CLE credit or just for entertainment, interactive training programs can help practitioners hone their trial techniques

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Interactive training programs and games such as Interactive Courtroom, Objection!!, Civil Objection!! and In the First Degree help attorneys to practice their trial techniques. Broderbund's In the First Degree is a strictly a CD-ROM game. However, Transmedia's Objection!! products and CLE Group's Interactive Courtroom are qualified for Continuing Legal Education credit in several states.

Prepackaged software, Software Publishers, Games,Recreation Software Pkgs(Micro), Training NEC, Business Software (ex Micro), Usage, Law, Study and teaching, Legal education, Employee training, Home software, Interactive media, Conduct of court proceedings, Courtroom proceedings, Broderbund Software Inc., BROD, In the First Degree (Strategy game), Objections!! (Computer game), Civil Objections!! (Computer game), Interactive Courtroom (Computer game)

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