Prolaw software is a software package you should be aware of If you run a small law firm, or indeed are a sole practitioner, or if you have a larger law firm, legal department in a company or if you are responsible for procurement and efficiency in a government department.

Prolaw software is a law office practice management software package designed to improve efficiency and drive down costs of case management for the progressive law firm.

It does this by allowing legal professionals and employees to streamline, manage and organize all features of legal case management. It works in your web browser or on Microsoft Windows and for the small law firm or sole practitioner the ProLaw Ready package is recommended.

ProLaw Ready for the smaller law firm

Juggling the demands of a law practice between case management, time management and financial management is a difficult task. ProLaw Ready and indeed all ProLaw software integrates seamlessly with legal research databases such as WestLaw’s and allows more efficient case and matter management, client and contact management, document assembly and management, email and electronic file management, calendaring, court docketing and many other useful features for the law office.

The back office module of ProLaw Ready ensures that you are on top of your financial reporting requirements and accounts receivable by allowing you to track your expenses and time spent on different files, budgeting, integrated accounting and contingency analysis.

One of the big benefits of ProLaw software is that it provides for the integration of your case management with financial management for your practice from one database.

It integrates with Microsoft Outlook and Word as well to ensure optimum document management within the context of your overall management of your client files.

Corporate legal departments are also catered for with the ProLaw software package tailored for their needs and similar customization is provided for government departments and larger law firms.

In addition there are some very useful add on modules which you can choose for your ProLaw software package including

• Intellectual property rules for over 100 jurisdictions
• Westlaw integration for legal research
• Docket tracking from the WestLaw court express service
• Integration with WestLaw’s legal calendaring rules including litigation court rules for hundreds of jurisdictions
• Electronic billing through the ebilling hub provided by ProLaw

ProLaw software has some very clever features and benefits and any law firm, regardless of size, could usefully benefit from taking a close look at what it has to offer.