New! ETB 4.0 Ease in Invoicing…and Other Reports

As we discussed in our last blog post, we've made a host of improvements to Easy TimeBill (ETB), our intuitive and simple law office billing software. In that last post, we discussed changes in the user interface. Today, we'll discuss changes in invoicing, and other legal time and billing reports.

The first reporting improvement centers on invoices. There's currently a single global invoicing format for current users of Easy TimeBill.

The new ETB 4.0 offers 12 different invoice formats to choose from—displaying varying levels on times and balances. Once you've set a format for an individual matter, you can select that format for every task you enter with regard to that matter.

What's more, you can now see the latest payments since the last invoice—and whether these payments were posted to your operating or trust account (reminder: we also offer Easy Trust , trust accounting software that works seamlessly with ETB).

The following new reports are also available:

•  A new report listing matters with unpaid balances.

•  A new report listing matters with positive retainer balances—allowing you to determine whether to apply these balances to unpaid invoices.

•  A new report that displays only fixed-fee matters—and what portion of each fee has been billed.

•  The ability of an identified “matter owner” to filter, view, and print a given type of report. These reports include Matter Billing Rates, and Matter Billing Hours.

•  And more.

To inquire about upgrading your current law office billing software, call us at 800-905-7638. To download a free trial version of Easy TimeBill, click here.

New! ETB 4.0 Greater Ease in Legal Time and Billing

Fantastic news! We have just released Easy TimeBill 4.0.

As you know, Easy Soft legal software emphasizes ease of use. Our company mission—built right into our name - is an ongoing quest to offer the ultimate in software simplicity.

Although we stand by the ease of all of our existing software, we are constantly engineering improvements which make it even more intuitive and simple to use.

Whether you're already taking advantage of Easy TimeBill (ETB), our legal time and billing software, or whether you're considering switching to ETB from your current program, we're thrilled to announce ETB 4.0. Among the many, many improvements of this new module:

•  Individual tabs for your Time/Expense Cards, Invoices, and Transactions—rather than less-visible pulldown menus. What's more, you can search each of these fields to find a particular client, matter, or bill—a powerful search capacity for the increased efficiency of all timekeepers.

•  Timekeeping abbreviations! Yes, ETB 4.0 gives you the ability to teach the software timekeeping abbreviations, such as CC (conference call), PC (phone call), or MTG (meeting).

•  The ability to print file labels directly from your Client and Matter files.

•  The ability to waive any unpaid invoice you like—through a discount function which can reduce the owed amount all the way to 0.

This is just a subset of the new improvements to our billing software for attorneys.

There's also a host of changes to the ETB reporting system—allowing you to manipulate reports and analyze any accounting and billing concerns: at a glance. We'll be talking about these in our next blog post.

To inquire about upgrading your current law office billing softwar, call us at 800-905-7638. To download a trial version of Easy TimeBill, click here.

RESPA & You

There's been much ado about the new RESPA law that went into effect in early 2010. The new HUD Settlement Statements are long and convoluted. Lenders and settlement agents need to make their good faith estimates more exacting. Are the regulations too strict? Not strict enough? How are they enforced? Some are calling for more change, just as we're all still figuring out the new requirements.

But if you have Easy Soft's Easy HUD software , you know you're in compliance with the most updated laws. You also know that we will try to ease your change.

This Real Estate Closing Software automates everything for your HUD 1 closing. We said everything : your closing forms, your HUD closing statement, ensuring HUD is balanced, your 1099-S statements (you can even file them with us—paperlessly), and your disbursements... come closing time.

The software automatically figures out who gets what and how much, it makes the disbursement.

Easy HUD's power and ease are why it's the one of the most popular HUD form software in our market, in the U.S. It's why thousands of real estate settlement agents use it—and why that was the case before, and after the RESPA changes.

Lenders appreciate Easy Soft's Easy HUD software , too. It gives your lender a certain comfort level—and a certain confidence about your calculations specially as it pertains to GFEs.

To learn more about our HUD software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

PA Divorce Software That Functions As More Than A Calculator

Unlike software that segregates the calculations from the forms, Easy Soft's EzSupport-PA isn't just a powerful PA child support calculator. It also provides you an opportunity to automate Pennsylvania family law forms.

These include court documents and pleadings , such as motions, notices, and summons. They also include financial worksheets and supporting documentation, such as income and expense statements . And finally, they include correspondence.

One advantage of this, you only need to enter the case data one time. This is a trademark of all Easy Soft software, including our legal billing software, our trust accounting software, our national divorce software, our real estate closing software, and other valuable (and value-packed) programs.

Another advantage is that if the form you need isn't there, you can create a new one. You can add virtually any type of form you need, and use case data to auto populate it.

Easy Soft has been around for 26 years. We're stable, and we're competent. We've been working with divorce attorneys like you for 26 years. We are well familiar with the challenges of your specific practice.

Our divorce law software is thorough, easy to use, and well-priced. In addition to EzSupport-PA , our portfolio consists of the Divorce Financials Software - applicable to all 50-states - and state-specific divorce and support solutions for New Jersey, New York, and Arizona. Add law office management software such as Easy TimeBill, Easy Trust, and the like, and we are your one-stop shop.

To learn more about our divorce software for attorneys, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

What’s An Easy Way to Calculate PA Child Support?

If you're a divorce attorney practicing family law in Pennsylvania , you know what all divorce lawyers do. Pennsylvania child support calculations are complicated. Even if you're great at math, computations for base support amounts and then accounting for various adjustments such as custody or childcare—can give you a headache.

But if you plan things strategically, your client's divorce settlement can result in higher disposable incomes not only for him or her—but for both parties . If this is a job you like to leave to your client's CPA, don't. Have your software perform the work—and deliver better service to your client.

Last December, Easy Soft launched EzSupport-PA , new Pennsylvania family law software. The software is designed for divorce lawyers —not CPAs or tax attorneys.

Coupled with our Divorce Financials Software, PA divorce lawyers get every tool they need for their family law practice .

The software:

•  Allows you to compare multiple support scenarios side-by-side, and choose the best option.

•  Records all case information from the outset—and uses it to populate financial statements, correspondence, court documents, etc.

•  Adjusts your support calculation to account for shared parenting, multiple families, and other extenuating circumstances.

Once you've entered the case data, the software does the heavy lifting. The resulting worksheet details a variety of scenarios. For each scenario, it provides a statutorily precise bottom line: one number for spousal support, and another number for child support.

Easy—just like our name.

To learn more about our divorce software for attorneys, call Easy Soft at 800.905.7638.

What’s An Easy Way to Track My Expenses?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we affirm that not all Legal billing software is created equal. And not all of it is created for lawyers.

Since hours are your law firm's main inventory, your focus is squarely on your billables.

But while not a profit basis, expenses are a potential source for loss. That's an area where a lot of law firms fall short—and carve into their previously profitable revenues.

Whether you pay your expenses by check, credit card and/or cash, your Legal Time and Billing Software should be able to track and allocate them effectively, effortlessly, and paperlessly (practicing law involves enough paperwork!).

Easy Soft's Easy TimeBill can do so with ease and simplicity.

Easy TimeBill is the easiest-to-use Attorney billing software on the market today. It also offers the best value.

And, yes, Easy TimeBill will help you track expenses cleanly—so that you don't have to sort through a pile of receipts before sending out your bills.

What's more, you can set up the software in about five minutes. No outside consultants needed, and no tech support needed—although if you want us to hold your hand, we'll do so…by phone, for no extra charge (for the first year after purchase)!

Software licenses start at $249, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. Although few people actually use this.

To learn more about our easy law office management software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

What’s An Easy Way to Check for Conflicts of Interest?

As we've said time and again, not all Legal billing software is created equal. And not all of it is made for attorneys.

For example, unlike your fellow professionals (doctors, architects, accountants), you're privy to information which can be used in an adversarial way. Therefore, the state bar says that you've got to check all new matters for conflict of interest . Fail to do so, and you can never be sure you're the right lawyer for your client (if you're not, then you're wasting your client's time as well as your own).

Many other billing software simply isn't designed for this. You wouldn't use general time tracking and billing software, for example, to figure out if a potential new client is related to a former or existing client in any way.
While developing a fully bulletproof conflict checker is challenging, the right software already contains an integrated database you can use to spot issues and potential conflicts off the bat.

Easy Soft's Easy TimeBill is a great example of software that can root out conflicts for you—saving you time, money, effort and peace of mind.

With the right attorney billing software, this is easy to do—and doesn't require wasteful and redundant software. Rather than disappear into your law firm file storage room for hours on end, or use a duplicative conflict checker, you can simply run a new matter into your firm's roster of clients—the one that's already embedded in your billing system.

To learn more about our law office management software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Arizona Divorce Lawyers: Get Yourself An AZ Child Support Calculator

Make a $50 mistake in a bankruptcy case: that's a one-time mistake. In a divorce case, the same mistake may cost your client—and his or her children—up to $50 per week, for years. That's a cost you have to live with.

The solution is to be dead accurate every time. Right?

If you're a divorce attorney practicing family law in Arizona , you know that's easier said than done. Arizona divorce calculations are complicated. Even if you're a bona fide math whiz (given that you went to law school, we're guessing you're not), computations for base figures—such as net disposable income or assets & liabilities distribution—can make your head spin.

But properly planned divorce settlements result in higher disposable incomes for both parties—and lower tax liabilities. Helping clients find a divorce settlement that minimizes their tax obligations is not only a matter of professional responsibility: it's an economic reality.

A Handy Divorce Calculator


In April, 2011, Easy Soft launched a software package to make things easy. EzSupport-AZ is Arizona divorce law software designed for divorce lawyers—not CPAs or tax attorneys. Coupled with Easy Soft's Divorce Financials program (which works with U.S. Tax Code to capture the tax implications of divorce settlements), Arizona divorce lawyers get every tool they need for their family law practice. The software:

•  Captures all case information (and financial data) from the outset.

•  Generates Arizona's complicated Affidavit of Financial Information & Inventory Forms.

•  Adjusts support calculations for other dependent children, parenting time, equal custody, and the like.

•  Allows you to prepare multiple support scenarios, compare and pick the best option.

Once you've entered the information, our Arizona-specific software does the heavy lifting. The resulting worksheet details a variety of scenarios. For each scenario, it provides a statutorily precise bottom line: one number for spousal support, and another number for child support.

Easy—just like our name.

EzSupport-AZ automates Arizona family law forms, too. These include:

•  Pleadings: Complaints. Answers. Claims. Counterclaims. Motions. Notices. Summons.

•  Correspondence: Letters. Responses.

•  Standard and customized forms.

Our easy-to-use, well reviewed and popular family law software makes it easy to get clients, and help them anytime, and anywhere.

To learn more about our AZ divorce software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Down The Road: How EzSupport-AZ Assists With Child and Spousal Support Modifications

As the economic climate has shown all too clearly as of late, income fluctuates through life. One day, you're wealthy, and the next, you need to save.

Needs fluctuate, too - expanding and contracting according to circumstances, preferences, and budgets.
Your client's divorce might be final. But in year 3 or 15, one or the other party might request a support modification. What now? Do you start from scratch?

No. When the case is over, you instruct your client to update his or her financial statements every year. From year to year, your client notes fluctuations in income, bank accounts, stock holdings. He or she can mark losses, windfalls, deficits, bonuses, raises. Good news or bad: this creates an easy record. If there's a request for a modification, you're prepared.

If you handled this client's divorce using EzSupport-AZ, our Arizona divorce law software, then updates are easy. Even if you didn't and you own the software, the information is right at your fingertips.

By the time anyone files for a support modification, the legwork is easy. It's right in your files:

You've got an Arizona child support calculator.

You've got the Arizona family law forms.

You just need to plug in your client's updates. Once you do, EzSupport-AZ generates new financial affidavits, new forms, new comparisons, and new figures for your client to consider and use.

To learn more about our divorce software for attorneys, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Automatic Financial Affidavits Makes Life Easy for Arizona State Divorce Lawyers

In April, 2011, Easy Soft unrolled Arizona divorce law software .

EzSupport-AZ leverages technology to help Arizona State divorce attorneys generate complex worksheets and financial calculations, prepare Arizona family law forms (including customizations), and more.
As with all of our software, we first focus on collecting your case data. Then, the software leverages that data for any purpose that serves your client and his or her case—whether it's generating Arizona financial affidavits, evaluating a settlement offer, figuring out child support payments, or something as complex as the future value of pensions.

With EzSupport-AZ, you never have to pick up a calculator, or create an Excel spreadsheet. Our software functions like an AZ support calculator , collating and automating data where you need it most.

Not only is this a major convenience for our clients, it reduces the chances of human error. It performs your calculations accurately and systematically—so you can focus less on the math, and more on what you're trained to do: advocate and negotiate the best deal for your client.

Though our family law software products, the financial questions that can be resolved—accurately and painlessly - are numerous, and include:

•  The value of multiple child and spousal support scenarios

•  Temporary child and spousal support payments

•  The present value of alimony payments

•  The value of enhanced earnings

•  The amount of net disposable income

•  The value of buy-out options

•  The present value of pensions

•  Many, many more

To learn more about our divorce software for attorneys , call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Affordable Arizona State Divorce Calculator - With Document Automation

There has been no single, comprehensive, and affordable divorce law software in Arizona that acts as both a  child support calculator , and an automatic generator of forms—including the crucial financial affidavits. Until now.

In April, 2011, Easy Soft launched EzSupport-AZ. This powerful Arizona divorce law software:

1. Generates Financial Affidavits—Automatically . Our EzSupport-AZ software encompasses the Affidavits of Financial Information and Inventory, crucial documents used to present the divorcing couple's entire financial picture. It's powerful software that does the math for you —so you can ensure accuracy and maximize the flexibility of options for your client.

2. Provides Arizona Child Support Calculator. Our intelligent software performs crucial calculations and prepares multiple support scenarios —so that you can locate the best option for your client.

3. Generates Customized Forms . In all family law cases, certain basic information (names of parties, years of marriage, names and ages of children) remains the same throughout. This makes it a no-brainer to generate the documents required for any family law case - even the ones which are settled out of court—through the same suite of software that produces your worksheets and your financial calculations.

Easy Soft has seized on this simple principle to bring it all together for our customers.

Invest in our EzSupport-AZ software today, and you'll get an all-in-one kit that generates financial affidavits, performs other complex divorce calculations , provides Arizona child support guidelines, and generates all of the legal forms you need for your cases.

•  Comparative software won't give you all of this. Instead, they do it in bits and pieces.

•  Comparative software won't also provide free setup, unlimited training, free upgrades, practice customization (check with us), unlimited educational support, unlimited tech support, and easy-to-access, personalized service.

Focus less on the financials, and more on advocating and negotiating on behalf of your client.

To learn more about our AZ divorce software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Free Mobile App for Family Law Professionals

As a leader in legal software and technology products, we are pleased to offer our new family law smartphone app ( m EasySoft) – it's free.

Divorce settlement calculations and the practice of family law go hand in hand, yet you cannot have a desktop program in front of you when you are having lunch with a client, are in chambers with the judge or are negotiating with opposing counsel.

The good news is that Easy Soft, a leading legal software provider based in NJ has combined their family law expertise with smartphone technology to change how attorneys take care of business. Now, with divorce settlement tools in your pocket, you can cut down on arguments and get both parties on same page, quickly —anytime and anywhere you smartphone/iPAD has access to the internet.

Easy Soft's smartphone app has a robust set of divorce settlement calculators such as Alimony Buyout or Present Value, Alimony Recapture. App also has NJ and NY state specific child/spousal support calculators. One can also email calculations from the m EasySoft app.

m EasySoft supports most mobile platforms. iPhone/iPAD/Android versions are available now. The version for Blackberry will be released very soon. For more information about the app and download instructions, visit: http://www.easysoft-usa.com/mobileapps

Click here to learn more. Install the exciting new smartphone app today —it's free!