Amicus Makes the Difference
On a sunny day 20 years ago, two young women who’d recently graduated from the same law school were called to the bar.
In many respects these two young women – their names are Heather Gavel and Holly Gown – were similar. Both had been above-average students. Both were personable and as a result, popular. And both had expectations about how their practicing law was going to improve not only their lives, but also the lives of others.
Recently, these two women met again.
They were still very much alike. Both were happily married. Both had children. And both it turned out, had first gone to work for large law firms before entering into practice for themselves.
There was one major difference.
Heather was doing very well financially. Lawyers of various experience were referring her work. She was happy, stress-free, and enjoying all life had to offer. She’d taken her family on many trips, and since she had the time, had even managed to lower her golf scores.
Holly on the other hand, was frustrated and struggling. Instead of actually practicing law as she’d always wanted, she was spending unacceptable amounts of time on non-billable administrative tasks.
While her income was directly proportional to the amount of time she spent at the office, she spent too much time sorting out the confusion and not enough time on billable activities. And even then, her billable time was often lost as it was not properly recorded. Golf was out of the question for Holly.
Heather relies on her practice management software. When she logs in she receives a complete update on what is happening, including a message about her need to create time entries for client-related activities she’d forgotten about the day before. With a few clicks she captures billable time that otherwise would have been lost. Since Heather’s software is also a collaboration tool, her staff is always coordinated and fully informed on all client files.
Holly uses Outlook and paper files. Often her assistants don’t know what she is doing, so they can’t be sure they have all the relevant information when they are helping with a client.
Heather enjoys practice automation with instant document generation and legal-specific calendaring that reduces administration time, while increasing revenue. Automated functions are delegated to staff.
Holly and her staff duplicate effort, misfile documents and sometimes misplace entire files.
Heather can access her software from anywhere with a connection, using any device.
Holly is tied to her office.
Automatic checks help Heather avoid conflict of interest risks, for which her insurer grants a discount on her premiums.
Holly is concerned she’s going to miss a court date. [Don’t even utter the term “E&O premiums” to her.]
Heather doesn’t have a secret – she has Amicus Attorney.
Designed for lawyers by lawyers, Amicus Attorney is the world’s leading practice management software with all of the functionality necessary to run a law firm efficiently. And that’s why Heather is happily successful, while Holly is frustratingly stuck.
Amicus Attorney gives you tools that will organize and put you in control of your practice.
Your requirements differ, so you can select the version that’s right for you.
Call 1-800-472-2289 to have your questions answered and get a free trial, so you can experience for yourself the pleasure of Amicus Attorney automating your legal practice.
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