Lexis Back Office powered by PCLaw
Lexis Back Office practice-management software provides a powerful, easy-to-use solution for time tracking, legal accounting, trust accounting, billing and more in one integrated package. Lexis Back Office can help your firm manage your books more efficiently, expedite your billing process and enhance overall practice management.
Lexis Back Office powered by PCLaw and earlier versions combine to constitute the most widely used law firm back-office management system in North America. Lexis Back Office streamlines your back office and dramatically reduces time spent on tracking time and fees, creating bills, writing checks, managing client trust funds and more.
Capture more billable hours and expenses
Lexis Back Office powered by PCLaw helps ensure that you record and bill every minute you spend on a case. Flexible tools allow you to track time from your desktop using Microsoft® Outlook®, Lexis® Front Office powered by Time Matters® or LexisNexis Total Practice Advantage™.
Manage client billing more efficiently
Lexis Back Office expedites the billing process with flexible and easy-to-use billing that is designed for law firms. You can bill matters individually or en masse, customize bill formats and designs, and choose to bill by matter, client, responsible lawyer, type of law and more.
Ease concerns over trust accounting and compliance with regional rules
Lexis Back Office helps take the anxiety out of managing trust accounting by reliably recording trust receipts and checks by matter. Built-in safeguards help ensure you do not overdraw on clients’ accounts, and reports easily track all trust accounting for individual matters.
Enable time tracking on the go
With Lexis Back Office you can capture time when working out of the office on laptops, home computers or PDAs and easily transfer information to Lexis Back Office for billing.
Improve cash flow and get paid faster
Lexis Back Office helps you get your bills out faster, allowing you to collect outstanding balances promptly. Aged receivables reports detail which clients owe you money and allow you to track notes that can be used in collection efforts.
Better analyze your firm’s performance
Lexis Back Office provides on-the-fly financial and productivity reports by client, lawyer, type of law and matter to help you make more informed business management decisions.
Gain access to outstanding technical support
Lexis Back Office offers online resources and training videos, classes held in training centers across North America, local training through certified independent consultants, and Web, telephone and e-mail support.
With Lexis® Back Office powered by PCLaw™, you get time, billing and legal accounting software to meet a range of legal-specific needs:
- Flexible, easy time tracking
Use Lexis Back Office time sheets or pop-up timers—or track time directly from Microsoft® Outlook® or Microsoft® Word. Automatic spell-checking, user-defined explanation codes and custom matter billing rates ensure greater accuracy.
- Billing and accounts receivable
You can bill matters individually or en masse. Lexis Back Office supports flat-fee, task-based, split, contingency, retainer and electronic billing. Invoices support allocation of fees between multiple attorneys and can be customized. Lexis Back Office also helps you identify outstanding balances and generate collection memos.
- Integrated credit card processing
Use Lexis Back Office integrated credit card processing to conveniently accept client payments and improve cash flow. (Requires high-speed Internet service.) More info.
- Trust accounting made easy
Lexis Back Office takes the anxiety out of fulfilling your local trust regulations. Manage your disbursement and receipt transactions for all of your clients and thousands of trust bank accounts.
- Check writing and banking
Write and print checks from your trust or general bank accounts and use Lexis Back Office bank reconciliation tools. Write checks for your firm and client expenses. Every entry updates journals, client ledger and general ledger.
- Accounts payable
Print 1099s for your vendors, and manage your vendors and payables with integrated accounts payable.
- General ledger and financial statements
Lexis Back Office general ledger and financial statements provide quick access to up-to-date financial information.
- Productivity reports
Key productivity reports help you easily identify your most profitable
- Free conversion of Intuit® QuickBooks® or Timeslips® data
Easily convert your QuickBooks accounting system or Timeslips billing data to PCLaw legal billing and accounting software. We’ll convert the following types of information - unbilled time and expenses, accounts receivable details, client trust details as well as customer and job information.
- Practice mobility
Lexis Back Office includes a module that provides time tracking from laptops and remote computers. Optional modules integrate with your Palm® OS handheld, Pocket PC device or BlackBerry® wireless handheld device.
- Integrated online payroll
LexisNexis has joined forces with ADP® to offer easy-to-use, secure, integrated online payroll designed to save you time and effort. (Requires high-speed Internet service and comes at an additional charge beyond the cost of Lexis Back Office software.