Controlling the Behavior of Timeslips Billing Assistant; Spelling & Grammar; Paths & Other In our first article on Sage Timeslips...
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What Is Your Preference?-Part 2
Controlling the Behavior of Timeslips: Part 2 In our first article on Sage Timeslips preferences, we covered some time-saving options...
What Is Your Preference?
Controlling the Behavior of Timeslips: Part 1 Here is a message I frequently receive from Timeslips users: “My IT consultant just installed...
Planning for your Year End
Season’s Greetings! Following the Thanksgiving holiday we at Eastern Legal Systems find not bells, but our phones ringing with questions from...
Timeslips Accounting Link (TAL Pro) 2014 – Is it Really New and Improved?
Finally - easier integration with QuckBooks and Sage 50/Peachtree for Timeslips 2014 users Last week, we wrote about what we saw and heard at the...
Timeslips News from Sage Summit 2013
The Sage Timeslips Certified Consultants of Eastern Legal Systems returned from this year’s Sage Summit, held recently at National Harbor, MD,...
“We’ve Done the Work – Why Can’t We Get Paid?” – Part I
As I write this, we’re wrapping up another “Billing Week” – that time of the month when many of our clients call in for assistance and advice to get...
Attaching Supporting Documentation in Timeslips 2013
When firms incur client-related costs, they are often obligated to include documentation to prove those costs were paid. At the very least, a copy...
Sage Timeslips 2013: Wish-List Fulfillment and a Calendar
The recently-released Sage Timeslips 2013 sports a collection of innovative new features, including a few that users have long been asking for. In...
Lexis Releases Law Firm Billing Survey
LexisNexis, the developer of the award-winning software applications Time Matters, Billing Matters, PCLaw and Juris, released the results of their...
Tracking Statuses of Accounts Receivable in Timeslips
A client sent this request in to us this week: “We read your article on keeping up with Accounts Receivableand we do that here at our firm. But it’s...
Getting Ready for the New Season
Spring is upon us, and the news is full of spring training and “season-opening” news for major league baseball teams. Professional baseball players...
How to Keep Up With Accounts Receivable – in Order to Keep It Down
During a break in one of our training classes, an attorney proudly showed me his firm’s Aged Accounts Receivable report. “Look at this!” he...
Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
As new cloud-based systems are announced each day, law firms are balancing the responsibility to keep client data secure with the need to make...
A little customization for your billing system
Have you ever wished you could store more information in one database program than appears to be possible? You may want to enter billing information...
You Bought the Software, Now What?
Okay, you have selected your case management or billing/accounting software, it has been purchased, delivered, installed and it is up and running....
Greet the Holidays – with Timeslips Mail Merges
Happy Holidays! By now we’ve finished our Halloween treats and Thanksgiving feast, and are heading for the home stretch amidst the end-of-year...
Changing Rates in Your Billing System
It is the time of year when your firm may need to change the hourly rates for your partners, associates, and paralegals. What is the most efficient...
Solutions, Solutions… Which One is Best for My Firm?
As software consultants, we frequently talk to groups or individuals about the programs we support. Inevitably we are asked – “But which software...
The New Timeslips eCenter -Improved?
Timeslips, the award-winning time and billing software program, has an informal mantra: You’ll never have an excuse for not billing your time. The...
Introducing iSlips
If there is one question that I hear the most as a Timeslips consultant it is this – “Does Timeslips have an app for my iPhone?” Sage Software, the...
Editing Bill Images in Timeslips 2012
It’s baffling – what is it about legal clients that makes them feel entitled to not pay their bills for months on end, and then tell their attorneys...
Whither Timeslips? News from the Sage Summit Conference
Mark Twain once said: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” As much as Timeslips’ competition wishes it were so, this...
Backing Up a Timeslips Database-HowTo
A Timeslips® database contains data related to a user’s time, client-related expenses, bills, accounts receivable and funds transactions. It...
Electronic Billing – Part 2
In Part Iof this post published recently we looked at Electronic Billing – what it involves, why your clients use it, and what not to do when asked...
Electronic Billing – Part 1
“Our biggest client contacted us and said we are no longer allowed to send them a paper bill. We have to do something like send the bill...
Tracking Your Own Time
Having just come from Legal Tech-NY last week, I’m impressed with all of the applications available to help users track their time and expenses. ...