Why use The Lawyers Advocate Back Office?

Back Office provides a powerful, easy-to-use solution for time tracking, legal accounting, trust accounting, billing and more in one integrated package. Back Office can help your firm manage your books more efficiently, expedite your billing process and enhance overall practice management.

Trust Accounting




Back Office's trust accounting features help you manage trust and trust related transactions with minimal effort. Easily process trust receipts, checks, and transfers between clients.
Unlimited regular and interest-bearing trust banks, trust overdraft protection, view client trust ledgers and produce trust reports, meet local trust regulations, receiving Trust Funds
Trust checks can be written on behalf of a client or general ledger trust account. Integrated security features help prevent trust overdrafts when writing a check.
Trust can be transferred between clients or matters using the Trust Transfer feature. 

Banking




Up-to-date bank balances can be accessed by selecting the Bank Balance feature.
Back Office supports the use of unlimited bank general or trust bank accounts.
Integrated deposit slip printing for firm and trust receipts allows you to print deposit slips for receipts, eliminating the need to create hand written deposit slips.
Balancing your bank doesn't have to be painful. Back Office's simplified onscreen formula walks you through selecting checks, deposits, credits, and adjustments until your bank is reconciled.

Financial Reports




When you enter transactions in Back Office the client and general ledger are automatically updated in a single step, simplifying transaction entry. You don't have to be a bookkeeper to understand how to use Back Office because entering transactions is designed to be easy.
Back Office's comprehensive selection of General Ledger reports ensure that valuable financial information is always at your fingertips.
Cash, Modified Cash and Accrual methods of accounting are supported and a preset Chart of Accounts is included for each accounting method. The Chart of Accounts can be customized as required.

Retainers




Back Office retainer features help you manage client retainers and process retainer related transactions such as receipts and bill payments with ease.
When you receive retainer funds from clients you can automatically print a client receipt and deposit slip. Retainers can be applied to client files when you receive them, to client bills, or to both.
When creating a bill you can use retainers to pay them at the time you create the bill or you can apply a retainer payment after the bill has been created
The Client Ledger displays client retainer balances and a complete history of all retainer transactions. You can print retainer ledger history as well as additional client reports that display client retainer history and balances. 

Accounts Receivable




Back Office makes it easy to track and collect receivables by providing Accounts Receivable reports that can be run by lawyer, aging, date range, and minimum balance, in detail or in summary.
Back Office Accounts Receivable Reminders feature lets you generate professional looking reminder letters or reminder statements that can be printed on reminder forms. Generate reminders for specific clients or all clients based on aging limits and minimum balances, with or without interest.
If your firm deals with electronic payments, whether it be credit card payments from clients or electronic file transfers (EFT), you can enter electronic payments in Back Office using the check or receipt functions. You can also create unlimited electronic payment types to help you identify those transactions on reports.

 

Accounts Payable




Back Ofice has a fully integrated accounts payable module that you can use to track and pay accounts payable invoices.
Track firm or client expenses, pay expenses for multiple clients on a single check, print a check to pay one vendor or a check run to pay multiple vendors, partial or full pay invoices by vendor or due date, view or print vendor reports, cash requirements reports, and aging reports.

Billing




Back Office 's work-in-progress reports allow you to review your work prior to creating bills. View unbilled and billed entries in detail or summary as well as work-in-progress aging.
Work-in-progress reports can be created using a variety of filters such as client, lawyer, area of law, date last active, date of last bill, and minimum amount.
Editing work-in-progress is extremely flexible because you can make changes to time and expense entries prior to billing or at the time of billing.

Expenses




Using Disbursement Entry you can manually enter disbursements or expenses for a single client or multiple clients. Alpha or numeric user-defined codes can be used to speed up entry and pre-defined fixed or unit rates can be set up for specific expense types. If you're entering large volumes of expenses you can use the keyboard only, which speeds up data entry.

Back Office's Cost Recovery Interface allows you to import large volumes of client disbursements or expenses captured by third party devices. Imported disbursements are posted directly to the client ledger. Maximize captured client costs such as photocopies, laser printing, and fax charges while reducing data entry costs and related errors.

Other Features

Back Office fully integrates with Amicus Attorney.