Attorney’s
fees and costs are bantered about in nearly every divorce case. The non-monied spouse thinks the monied
spouse should pay. The spouse left in
the house claims the spouse who left is meant to pay. And the lawyers bill over who should pay what
to which lawyer.
Have you
ever stopped to consider that a successful claim for an attorney fee award
starts the moment your client first contacts your law firm?
The first
entry into your law office billing software is the beginning of the business
records you will provide to the court as evidence of the professional services
rendered, the expenses remitted, and the reasonableness of your fees. The time to think about your client’s
attorney’s fee claim is not when you’re conducting trial; it’s when you receive
the request to schedule the initial consultation.
Easy
Soft’s Easy TimeBill is the attorney
billing software you need to document and present a winning attorney’s fee
claim.
When you
use our legal billing software, you use an automated system that
clearly asks you to fill in essential billing information every time you work
on a case. Using legal billing software means that you will repetitively see the
same screen for a new billing or expense entry and you will quickly master the
data you need to input to complete your billing entry.
Each
month, you can prepare invoices to send out to each client. Our law firm billing software compiles invoices with all the
time and expense entries from all billers on a file, sorting them by case and
then by date.
When you
are ready to submit your request for counsel fees, just use our attorney billing software to reprint a
complete set of the invoices. The
invoices will show the judge the work you have handled to date, any advance
retainer deposit, charges against the advance deposit, and any outstanding
balance. You can also us our attorney billing software to print a ledger chart for the
client’s deposit and any overdue balance.
When you
are ready for trial, you can readily provide testimony about your use of our lawyer billing software, the business
practice of the firm relative to client billing, and the invoices generated on
a monthly basis for your client.
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