Thursday, June 16, 2011

Protect the Integrity and Security of your Data—While Keeping Life Easy

The most common and dangerous of all legal billing pitfalls is choosing complicated software that fails to protect the integrity and security of your law firm data.

If your software is too complicated to learn or use, then you're not receiving the benefit of IT leverage. Technology isn't making your life easier..it's making it harder. Need an external consultant or trainer? Time to nix the software in question, and find something hassle-free.

Data integrity and security involve taking precautions to protect against unauthorized access and use. You need a legal billing system with built-in features for data access control, built-in checks for error detection, and a regular data back-up function.

Easy Soft's Easy TimeBill (ETB) takes care of all of that.
Our legal billing software has received rave reviews from lawyers and technology publications alike. With Easy TimeBill , you can efficiently manage client billing , improve your cash flow , and view an uncluttered 360-degree financial snapshot of your firm.

And now: we've rolled out ETB 4.0: new, improved, and better than ever!

It takes five minutes to set up the program and prepare your first invoice. All of your timekeepers can keep track of their time simultaneously—without lost hours, or added administrative hassle. You can have 100 people on the system-or just one.

The optional Easy Trust module integrates your billing functions with your trust accounting functions. Deposit your retainer checks where they belong. No duplicate entries, no convoluted recordkeeping.

View a matter's unbilled, unpaid and retainer balances at all times . Enter time and expense cards individually, or a week at a time.

Generate fully customizable invoices-and then email them to your clients.

You can even create and email reminder letters, and even generate and email overdue invoice and low retainer reminders in batches-rather than one at a time.

You get comprehensive billing, banking, and accounting reports. There's even a built-in conflict checking system.

To learn more about our high-security legal billing software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Time – For Real Estate Lawyers Only

If you're a real estate closing lawyer that takes a flat fee for services rendered, you're well advised to search for ways to increase your efficiency. Greater efficiency translates into less time spent per case, which translates into a higher profit margin (since a lawyer's time almost always equals his primary inventory).

Luckily, Easy Soft's Easy HUD software has the power and intelligence to increase your efficiency—while upping your accuracy, too. You can handle all of your existing deals quicker and better. What to do with your new free time? Let's see. You could take on more clients—or just head off for a weekend in Bora Bora —or your backyard hammock.

Whether you represent buyer or seller, you're likely taking a flat or fixed fee for your services. What's not smart: sinking hours and hours into a standard HUD 1 closing? What is smart: leveraging technology to help you out?

Easy HUD does two things—and both well. It increases the ease of your transaction—by capturing case data at the outset, and integrating it into all forms, including your HUD 1 forms. And: it performs automatic calculations, generating whatever real estate correspondence, forms, worksheets, etc. you need for your client's real estate acquisition or sale.

If you're the settlement agent, Easy HUD also turbo-charges your HUD settlement statement (also known as a HUD closing statement, or HUD-1). Now that the laws have changed, HUD 1 closings demand razor-sharp accuracy—with only a narrow margin for error. Our HUD software helps you comply with RESPA rules —so that you're not caught on the short end of a good faith balancing stick.

More time for you, more money in your pocket, better transactions, and happier clients. It's a win-win-win-win. Only with Easy Soft.

To learn more about Easy HUD and our entire suite of law firm software , call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Imagine Legal Software with All-Inclusive Vacations; All-Inclusive Technology

Summertime means vacation time! And with tropical resorts on the brain, you'd probably agree that an all-inclusive holiday goes a long way to taking the guesswork out of your final hotel bill.

That's why we too are proponents of the all-inclusive plan. All-inclusive software.

Take No-Name software package. The price may be enticing—but what does it include? Are you going to be hiring someone to install it on every workstation, and then bringing on an outsource IT support firm to help you figure out how to navigate your way around? And worrying about whether you have backup systems, and whether your legal software is up to date?

All of Easy Soft's many diverse and intelligent programs come with one common trait. Just like that holiday in the Caribbean, we're all-inclusive, too.

This encompasses:

•  Software Setup . Maybe you can handle your own setup. But you need to set up your new legal software on all of your lawyer and timekeeper workstations. This can get both time-consuming—and expensive.

•  Software Training . With any new software—even software as simple as ours—requires learning the basic functions—including those intended to work together with other software modules (such as the way our law office Legal billing software works seamlessly with our trust accounting software). You might learn quickly, but why not get a guided tour to the bells and whistles—those little shortcuts and details that you didn't know existed until you stumble upon them—much much later?

•  Practice Customization . Customizing your new software to the needs of your office and your practice is crucial. At Easy Soft, most practice customizations are included, too—so long as they're a basic part of the program.

•  Regulatory Updates . For lawyers, this is one of the most important pieces of the picture. Our entire software collection is developed by lawyers— for lawyers. So in every state in which we sell software, we scan the legal landscape for changes in laws, shifts in regulations, adjustments which we need to address. For example, our Easy HUD software conforms to the latest RESPA requirements for real estate closings . Easy TimeBill and Easy Trust adheres to state-specific ethical requirements. And so forth.

•  Technology Upgrades . Then there are the everyday technology upgrades we make to our software on a regular basis—to keep it streamlined, powerful, and efficient. For example, we've just launched a new line of mobile apps to go with our Family Law software for attorneys. It's free to all subscribers—and makes every software feature available to our users while you're on the go.

The only thing we leave out of our legal software packages? The tanning lotion.

To learn more about our all-inclusive software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

High Net Worth Clients, NY Divorce Law Software —and the Recession

As a divorce lawyer in New York, your clientele is likely pretty diverse. Your clients span a range of income brackets. We're guessing a few of yours clients might be of high net worth. These are people who have remained staggeringly wealthy—even throughout this hard-hitting recession.

Here at Easy Soft, we don't think that the extensive assets of these clients ought to complicate your legal practice. We don't think that multiple cars, homes, paintings, and jewelry should make the New York Statement of Net Worth any more complicated than it already is.

That's why we developed our E z Support-NY software with these clients in mind.

It's pretty simple. With E z Support-NY, all of those additional assets (and perhaps liabilities, too) simply get added to the statement of net worth —without having to tack on messy additional pages. Our software expands to accommodate everything. There's no need to break out the calculator, Excel, or exercise acrobatics in math and documentation. EzSupport-NY keeps all assets right at your fingertips.

You can add as many of the following as you need:

•  Businesses. The software will itemize everything from capitalization to income.

•  Vacation homes

•  Checking accounts

•  Savings accounts

•  Investment accounts

•  Precious metals, and other holdings

•  Expenses—in all categories

•  And so forth.

They are rich in assets. And our software is more than ready for them.

As with all of our software, our new EzSupport NY ( divorce law software) captures all of the case information at the outset. That means that you only have to enter new information once . As with most of our family law software, using Easy Soft is like using a NY child support calculator. New York state forms are inclusive, too—along with technical support, educational training, and certain practice customizations. As with all of our legal software, click the built-in timekeeper to keep track of your billable hours.

To learn more about our NY State divorce law software, call Easy Soft at 800-905-7638.

For NY Divorce Lawyers—A Primer to Comprehensive New York No Fault Divorce Software

Lately, we've been hearing about NYC divorce lawyers flailing about: without proper software, they spend way more time than necessary setting up a new client, or performing New York State spousal support calculations. Don't do it!

E z Support-NY is designed to manage all the important aspects of your family law practice , including automation of the staggeringly complex statement of net worth. It comes in an easy-to-use, all-in-one package that provides:

  • An uncluttered user interface that makes calculations and data entry a breeze.
  • A generator for common New York divorce forms such as, summons, complaints, affidavits , etc.  Click here for a complete list of forms.
  • An automated New York Statement of Net Worth that allows you to enter an unlimited number of “Assets,” “Debts,” and “Expenses” (budget) items.
  • Automated Temporary Maintenance and Child Support Worksheets (UD-8).
  • The ability to compare and contrast multiple support scenarios (e.g. different income or deductions) for your client.
  • A full suite of customizable forms . Save and email them as a Word document or PDF.
  • A built-in time tracker to track time spent on any given matter.
  • The ability to add an unlimited number of New York family law forms, including correspondence and pleadings. All forms populate from case data already entered, allowing you to remain consistent, accurate, and hyper-efficient.

Software licenses start at $249 and include both a year's worth of unlimited, updates, live-by-phone technical support (9-5 EST, Monday through Friday), and an unconditional 30-day money back guarantee.

No more flailing! Promise?

To learn more about our NY State Child Support Calculator, call Easy Soft at 800-905-7638.

For AZ Family Lawyers: The Benefits of Easy Technology

Here at Easy Soft, we think: why reinvent the wheel? It's pleasingly round; it rolls smoothly; people seem to like it; it doesn't even need petrol.

That's why all of our software captures your client's case data at the beginning of your engagement-and leaves it there.

That's why EzSupport-AZ-which launched in May-takes your clients' data and integrates it into all of the ensuing legal forms, correspondence, and financial statements including-most crucially for AZ divorce settlements- your child support calculations. EzSupport-AZ is Arizona divorce law software designed for divorce lawyers-not CPAs or tax attorneys.

Coupled with Easy Soft's Divorce Financials software (which tax optimizes divorce settlements, among other things), Arizona divorce lawyers get every tool they need for their AZ child support calculations. The software provides:

•  Ease: Divorce calculations are complicated. Even if you're a math genius, computations for base figures—such as net disposable income or assets & liabilities distribution—can make your head spin. EzSupport-AZ generates automated Affidavits of Financial Information , and other worksheets—making complex calculations not only doable, but also easy. Enter the information—and let our Arizona-specific software do the heavy lifting.

•  Accuracy : Because the software extracts the raw data from the same original source, and performs foolproof calculations from built-in formulas, the only error relates to faulty data entry, recall, etc. Enter your figures right the first time, and you'll never have to worry about faulty math or error-prone data transfers.

•  Flexibility: The software adjusts support calculations for diverse custody arrangements, multiple family permutations, excess mortgages, multiple homes and other assets, and the like.

•  Abundance: EzSupport-AZ provides document automation capabilities for Arizona family law forms, too. These can include pleadings, worksheets, correspondence , and other standard forms: an all-in-one kit for your family law practice—no matter how complex the case.

•  Results : Properly planned divorce settlements result in higher net incomes for both parties—and lower tax liabilities. That means that your clients walk away happier—and wealthier, too.

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 divorce software for attorneys, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

EzSupport-PA Helps Pennsylvania Divorce Lawyers to Modify Settlements

Incomes come, and incomes go. Jobs are lost. Fortunes are made and squandered.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but life fluctuations are the rule of the day. And a simple reality of your PA family law practice is the idea that any divorce settlement might be revisited—at any given time. Your client calls you, and if you're not prepared, then you're stuck playing the forensic lawyer role: digging up documents, numbers, and case information. A huge pain in the side—and a situation that's ripe for mistakes.

Not with our PA divorce law software.

Easy Soft's EzSupport-PA gives your client the capacity to update his or her financials every year.

First, you tell your clients exactly how to note fluctuations in income, bank accounts and stock holdings. They record bonuses, raises, and windfalls.
In doing so, you add tremendous value to your services by providing foresight and advice for planning ahead.

When it comes time to modify Pennsylvania alimony or child support -due to a change in circumstances, the legwork is easy. It's right at your client's fingertips.

The following are standard features for our EzSupport-PA software:
•  Pennsylvania child support guidelines

•  Automated financial worksheets—and ability to customize forms,
•  Accurate child support calculators,

•  Unlimited technical support, educational webinars, training and upgrades, and

•  Personalized customer service and support.

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

Friday, June 10, 2011

Discount on Divorce Financials

In celebration of our new suite of Smartphone applications for family lawyers across the U.S., we are offering a one-time $50 discount to new subscribers to our popular Divorce Financials software.

The package normally costs $299/year. After the discount, your cost will be $249/year. With this, you get our usual 30-day unconditional money-back guarantee. You also receive free training webinars, and free unlimited tech support by our specialized family law technical support team. Hurry, discounted price expires June 31, 2011.

Easy Soft's Divorce Financials is the most popular family law software in U.S. today. Our nationwide divorce law software has many powerful features, including the ability to optimize your clients' divorce settlements with the use of an arsenal of well-designed tools. You can:

•  Quickly ascertain each parties' net disposable income.

•  Compute monthly expenses-based simply on the data in credit card and bank statements.

•  Compare five alimony scenarios side-by-side.

•  Pit alimony side-by-side with child support—to arrive at a tax-optimized settlement(and more money all around).

•  Compute the present value of a defined pension benefit plan.

•  Compute the present value of a future alimony payment stream.

•  Generate automated equitable distribution scenarios.

You can perform any of the above steps to advise your clients—or to market your law firm capabilities and win a new client. Best of all, using m EasySoft , our new Smartphone application, you can now perform many of the above calculations in the check-out line at the supermarket—and email the result to yourself and others.

No accounting skills are necessary to master this accurate, convenient, simple-to-use divorce software.

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

NJ Family Lawyers: We’re combining Case Information Statement Software and FamilyDocs!

Great news for NJ family lawyers! We are integrating our Case Information Statement software and our FamilyDocs program into one streamlined package. When the two programs are combined, you'll have access to a single, powerful piece of software designed to harness technology in our practice, and to free you up to perform the more lawyerly aspects of your job: advise and manage your clients, negotiate their cases, litigate, and keep your law firm running smoothly.

Easy Soft's FamilyDocs contains the entire library of New Jersey family law forms from Skoloff and Cutler, as published by the New Jersey ICLE. In total, the software puts over 120 family law forms at your disposal.

CIS, or Case Information Statement, is the NJ's most popular family law software today. New Jersey family law attorneys choose Easy Soft's CIS software because they get all the tools they need to prepare child support worksheets and Case Information Statements in record time and in accordance with New Jersey Guidelines —all in one package.

Throughout NJ, more than 1500 plus law firms, legal services and other state-run agencies, law schools, and paralegal schools rely on CIS, which (in its current format) includes:

•  Child support worksheets such as for sole and shared child support, custodial and non-custodial, etc.

•  Commonly needed forms, such as the confidential litigant information sheet, insurance certification, etc.

•  The complete Guidelines text.

•  An automated Case Information Statement—with advanced features.
•  The ability to customize any form, save it in Word or PDF, and email it.

•  NEW! A companion mobile app for Smartphones and tablet computers.

When we combine the modules, you'll have the option to license both. Best of all, you'll only need to enter case information once: not twice. The efficiency makes things so easy.

That's why we call it Easy Soft.

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

Client Retainer Checks: Do you have a Ready-Made Procedures that Works?

Every law firm tries to keep its trust books clean and accurate . But it either fails, or it spends significant time and resources on a standard process that should be simple, streamlined, and utterly straightforward.

Take the retainer check. Retainers are the lifeblood of your business. They infuse your firm with much-needed cash flow—and signify a client's trust and commitment in you.

But as you well know, client retainers require special treatment. For one matter, you might need to make an initial deposit to a trust account , and transfer balances as fees are earned. This alone will complicate your back office operation significantly if your billing system isn't capable of taking care of it.

Another trip-up point is this: you've got to show a client's remaining retainer balance on his or her invoice.

If your system provides integrated billing and trust bookkeeping , you've won the battle against trust fund tracking. This can work to prevent common trust errors (e.g. ledger card overdraft), and provide a bank reconciliation tool and three-way reconciliation reports.

Easy Soft's Easy Trust software does just this. And it does it in conjunction with Easy TimeBill—our ethically compliant legal billing software. This makes the trust accounting process seamless and effortless—once you set everything up.

As you consider your trust accounting obligations, know that we're rooting for you to win. And so is our software: specifically designed to make your operations compliant, efficient, and pain-free.

To learn more about our state bar-compliant escrow software, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Stay Cool with your Best Clients this Summer & Offer Them a Credit Card Option

Last February, we rolled out a crown jewel in our legal office billing software : the Payment Acceptance Plan, or merchant accounts for law firms. These are payment processing services designed specifically for lawyers like you—and developed to work in conjunction with both our law firm billing software and trust accounting software.

Our goal? To expedite your accounts receivables—and provide an easy-to-use merchant processing service that works effortlessly with your law practice.

Payment Acceptance Plan can help you set up secure payments to your operating

account. It can also integrate payments to your escrow and trust accounts.

Everything is designed to work as a single, streamlined piece—and to comply with a lawyer's stringent rules of professional conduct for every state in which we do business .

Beyond these special features, Payment Acceptance Plan is as process-efficient as the best credit card payment solutions. It offers:

•  Flawless Processing.

•  “Real Time” Reporting. Use your desktop or laptop to accept credit or debit card payments, and reap the benefits of "real-time" electronic reporting for optimal accounting reconciliation.

•  Low Fees . To prove it to you, we'll give you a free audit. All you need to do is fax your contact information and your latest credit card processing statement to 877-439-7638 (include a fax cover sheet). We'll do a quick analysis, and get back to you with estimated savings—and then you can decide for yourself.

What's more, you provide a service to your clients that allows them to pay your bills—and remain a client— without dipping into their investments or savings.

Put law-specific payment technology to work for your law firm today. We look forward to helping you boost your cash flow, cut down on outstanding receivables, e liminate efforts to collect on bills—and compromise a good relationship with clients who might be a little late paying their bills.

To learn more about our merchant account services, call Easy Soft at 800 905 7638.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

mEasySoft: Mobile App for U.S. Family Lawyers

Now announcing mEasySoft: a Mobile App for Family Lawyers around the U.S.

Easy Soft's free* mobile phone application provides robust divorce settlement calculationsfor family law professionals, including Alimony Buyout v. Present Value calculations , Alimony Recapture alerts, and child support and temporary maintenance calculators.

Whether you're having lunch with a client, in chambers with the judge, or negotiating with opposing counsel, mEasy Soft gives you the tools you need anywhere you can access the internet. These tools are available on your Smartphone (Android, iPhone, BlackBerry) or iPad devise.

mEasySoft does most things that our family law software does. It allows you to evaluate and settle divorces: confidently, responsibly, and remotely. It also:

•  Keeps you updated with the latest U.S. tax and guideline changes.

•  Performs tricky calculations—such as comparing the tax impact of alimony versus child support.

•  Allows you to perform any Divorce Financial calculation—and then email it to yourself, your client, and anyone else you like.

If you're a current subscriber of any of our family law products, then both the mEasySoft app—and corresponding tech support—are free . For tech support, just use the regular support channels.

iPhone. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Apple App Store.

iPAD. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Apple App Store.

Android. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Android App Store.

Blackberry. Install Now, or just search for "nj child support" in your BlackBerry App Store.

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

* Apps are free for current Easy Soft subscribers.

NJ Family Law Software for Divorce Lawyers on the Go

We know you're not always sitting in your office, or in front of your computer. That's why we've developed mobile applications for divorce lawyers on the go.

As one of the nation's leading family law software companies, we are pleased to announce the launch of our NJ Child Support Calculator Smartphone app (mEasySoft). At no charge* .

mEasySoft allows you to calculate child support amounts, quickly and accurately, right on your iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, iPad, or other mobile device. It allows you to evaluate and settle divorces: confidently, responsibly, and remotely.

Imagine: you can evaluate settlement offers on-the-spot—you're still in court or taking the deposition. You can perform comparisons of alimony payments versus lump-sum settlements on your morning commute—and then email them to yourself. You can pull up ballpark numbers…while at the ballpark! And you can do so while talking to a potential divorce client that you met while on the go.

mEasySoft does most things that our family law software does. It:

•  Keeps you updated with the latest state tax and guideline changes.

•  Allows you to perform calculations—and then email them to yourself, your client, and anyone else you like.

•  Performs the trickiest calculations—such as figuring out the difference between teenage support adjustments at the initial award level v. the support modification level.

If you're a current Case Information Settlement Software (CIS) or Divorce Financials Software subscriber, then both the mEasySoft app and corresponding tech support are free . Just use the regular support channels.

iPhone. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Apple App Store.

iPAD. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Apple App Store.

Android. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Android App Store.

Blackberry. Install Now, or just search for "nj child support" in your BlackBerry App Store.

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

* Apps are free for current Easy Soft subscribers.

Divorce Settlements on the Road


Picture this. Your client's sitting in the deposition room, handling one question after the next: beautifully (just as you trained him or her). You see a gesture, leading to a private conference. Suddenly, you are being asked to step outside to receive a settlement offer.

How do you advise your client? Do you know how the figure plays out in real life? Wouldn't it be great if you could punch the number into a calculator, get an instant report about its impact on your client's lifestyle, budget, income taxes, kids, and other critical factors, and advise your client in an informed way?

Now picture this. Your client's getting grilled, and not handling it particularly well. The facts are simply not in his or her favor. You've seen enough. You'd like to put an end to this. You pause the proceedings, and pull your client aside for a talk. He or she wants to settle, but the question is, how do you know what to offer?


If you're a busy divorce lawyer, you might be facing a situation like this every single day. Fear not: we have a solution. Family Law mobile apps - on your BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, or iPad device.

Easy Soft makes Divorce Financials—and all of our other family law software — available to you outside of the office, and in the deposition room, the courtroom, even the supermarket checkout line (what else are you going to do?). If you have come to rely on our divorce law calculators, then we'd like to make them available to you— at no extra charge* .

Picture this. You have Easy Soft Divorce Financials , or our mobile apps family law software. You punch in a figure, and see that it will make your client's income taxes steeper than an alternate scenario. This is too easy: you proffer the alternate. It's accepted, and you've done well by your client.


What could be easier?

iPhone. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Apple App Store.

iPAD. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Apple App Store.

Android. Install Now, or just search for "easysoft" in your Android App Store.

Blackberry. Install Now, or just search for "nj child support" in your BlackBerry App Store.

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

* Apps are free for current Easy Soft subscribers.