Amicus Attorney

Good software that could be great

Kommentare: Paperless offices require careful organization and this program provides a good platform. It is a little pricey, but their customer support is great.

Vorteile:

The interface is well designed, it does a good job of maintaining data integrity. I feel that it does allow me to keep fairly organized, and it is helpful as far answering the phone and being able to get right on top of things, it is great. The sync with Outlook works most of the time, and it does a nice job with duplicates. The time keeping seems to catch almost everything, but needs improvement.

Nachteile:

There are two possible setups, I think I chose the wrong one for my situation. If you have a "split" setup then unless you are on your network, you cannot do a lot of necessary things --such as generate documents, The handy tool that pulls up all your documents that you will need at trial, you guessed it. Finally, there are things that should be easier to do, such as copy complete tables of data.

Amicus Attorney was my first legal management software. We both started together almost 40 yrs ago.

Vorteile:

Permits me to practice law. Amicus is easy to use and very intuitive. It's just clicking away, and getting things done. Now, I can be anywhere and use it from my tablet or a laptop computer if I am out of town

Nachteile:

I was never able to incorporate Amicus' billing software so I continued to use Timeslips, and both work well together. Now that Timeslips is getting expensive, I may give their billing software another try. Perhaps now it is intuitive as Amicus Attorney.

Not recommended

Vorteile:

One stop functionality. Decent customer service in training

Nachteile:

Difficult to use. The firm opted out after a few months

For our purposes, this software does everything that most the firm members expect of it.

Vorteile:

The calendaring feature works as expected, and all members associated with that event are able to see the event on their calendar and make any changes or updates to it, as necessary. The telephone feature works, even if you don't have your phone system connected to your computer, as it allows you to make notes and keep track of your billable time. The time entry assistant is really nice, as it allows you to identify items in your day that you may have overlooked for billing purposes.

Nachteile:

Does not integrate as seamlessly with WordPerfect as I had hoped, an does not lend itself to some email providers other than outlook.

Good for Small Law Firms

Vorteile:

The ability to track the time of anything you do in the app. Whether you're marking that you completed a task, sending an email, making a phone call, etc., as long as you're tracking it in Amicus, you can put in a time entry for it.

Nachteile:

Because it's online-based, we've often had connectivity issues. Because we use Amicus all day, everyday, if we can't access it, it's a huge problem for the business.