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#AbacusLaw Review: Legal Practice Management and Accounting Software

AbacusLaw is a legal practice management software program that has a full suite of features for that lets lawyers track time. invoice, manage documents, and performing law firm and trust accounting. Abacus Law is designed for small- to mid-sized law firms.

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AbacusLaw has strong document control and creation features, which will let your law firm convert letters and documents into fillable forms. The forms accept information merged from combinations of standard fields and custom fields. AbacusLaw tracks court dates, statutes of limitations, appointments, meetings, and other information. You can schedule related legal events and other due dates based on court rules in your jurisdiction automatically.

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AbacusLaw: The Catches

AbacusLaw is completely configurable. However, you may need an IT professional or consultant to install and configure AbacusLaw for you. Abacus Law has technical support staff that will remotely set up the program for you at no additional charge.

Some of the advanced features in AbacusLaw require additional payments to access. For example, Bryan Lober, a writer for the the Lawyerist.com. noted that the SmartPhone synchronization with Abicus requires an additional annual fee in the range of $70 to $90. Bryan also reported that although AbacusLaw has ability to import templates from Microsoft Word. this functionality does not work with 64-bit versions of Microsoft Word (see AbacusLaw Practice Management Software Review )

Law Firm Accounting

If your law firm uses QuickBooks for accounting purposes, then you will find that you can integrate AbacusLaw with QuickBooks useful. With AbacusLaw, you can synchronize client addresses and matter names from AbacusLaw into QuickBooks as well as post time from events and notes from AbacusLaw into QuickBooks. These QuickBooks integration features are not available in all versions AbacusLaw.

Alternatively, you can use AbacusLaw Gold with AbacusLaw to provide you with the ability to provide your law firm with comprehensive accounting abilities. AbacusLaw Gold is developed by the makers of AbacusLaw so it integrates with AbacusLaw better than any other accounting software package.

Conclusion

Overall, AbacusLaw has received favorable reviews by most independent legal practice management review sites. Most users state that the program will help small law firms manage their practice, do not report too many difficulties in using the program, and mention that the price point is reasonable. There is some indication that AbacusLaw does not contain all the features it advertises in the out-of-the box version of the software. Instead, you will have to pay an additional fee to access some additional features.

To avoid this issue, you can ask the sales representative if the features you want are included in the software purchase or require additional fees. Asking these questions in advance may give you a more accurate price of the actual cost of purchasing the software, as it includes the features that you want to run your law firm .

Learn More

You can learn more about AbucusLaw by visiting their website www.abacuslaw.com.