Time & Profit vs. PC Law
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BytePro's $269 Time & Profit 1.3 integrated time and billing application is a better value than Alumni Computer Group's $295 competitive program, PC Law 3.0 for Windows. Time & Profit includes a powerful accounting program with built-in time and billing, contract and calender features. Time & Profit also provides a simple interface that supports Quicken's direct import of data while exporting to other applications via .csv or ASCII files. The program, however, lacks networking capabilities, and BytePro promises the release of a network version of Time & Profit by the 2nd qtr 1997. Alumni's PC Law is also an excellent program, but its costly base price of $295 does not include the additional modules, costing over $100 each, needed to obtain comprehensive accounting capabilities provided by competing integrated time and billing packages. PC Law includes valuable time and billing integration features and accounting functions, but the program lacks a report writer.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1997
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Amicus and PCLAW link up
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Alumni Computer Group's Amicus/PCLAW Link software allows users to exchange information between Gavel & Gown Software's Amicus case management software and Alumni's own accounting program and is a valuable, time-saving program. Link comes on a disk with PCLAW. Link works when both programs are running, recording changes in one program in the second program, at real-time speeds. Users may also create information off-line and configure the program to synchronize the files upon reconnection to the network. Some information transfers are complicated because the two programs store data in different ways. PCLAW allows users to assign clients more than one address, while Amicus does not, so users will have to delete extra addresses from PCLAW files before synchronizing the files. The case-tracking numbers assigned by Amicus are incompatible with those assigned by PCLAW. The program is time-consuming to configure, but over time, users will find it saves them time.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1996
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PC LAW Jr.: small firm accountant in a box
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Alumni Computer Group's $295 PC LAW Jr for Windows is a versatile and multipurpose accounting package for legal professionals. Modules are included for accounts receivable, general ledger, trust accounting, time and billing, check writing, disbursements and management reports. Two optional modules, for payroll and reconciliation, are also available. The initial setup is time-consuming, since users must enter data regarding billing rates, accounting methods and client information before proceeding. Despite the inherent difficulties in converting a law office's financial operations to the computer, a program like PC LAW Jr can be a boon to efficiency once it is properly installed.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
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