RainMaker Platinum – Legal Practice Management Solutions for Law Firms
Practice Management at a Glance
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RainMaker Platinum Law Practice Management software is the attorney and staff desktop tool that manages the practice of law. Our Legal Practice Management software provides firm-wide collaboration of information about every client, matter, contact, referral, docket event, employee, mail list, potential conflict and business opportunity within your firm.
From Time and Expense Entry to Case Management and Marketing, RainMaker Platinum Legal Practice Management software for law firms integrates all of the functions performed throughout the day into a cohesive flow of easily-managed information.
RainMaker Legal Practice Management Software for Law Firms
The Goal
"From the beginning we knew we wanted a system that would provide attorney access to critical client information, integrate our docketing with Outlook, allow attorneys to use timers for more accurate time entry, improve our cash collections efforts and streamline our conflicts process."
- Firm Administrator
Current Situation
The firm’s secretaries and legal assistants were spending excessive time looking up contact information and related parties while generating documents. Each attorney was responsible for maintaining their own calendar and there was no way to manage associates’ activities. The firm needed a single, cohesive system that works the way attorneys work.
With their current law practice management system, the law firm’s time tracking, accounting, docketing and collections were a combination of third-party packages that did not integrate with their time and billing system. The goal was to implement an integrated law practice management software system, one that would allow for attorneys to interface with Microsoft® Outlook and eliminate the requirement to invest in third-party products altogether.
They were also in need of an automated collections process which would reduce the balance and age of outstanding receivables and therefore improve the firm’s overall cash flow.
Finally, the law firm stressed that its current reporting capabilities were extremely inflexible and very cumbersome. They wanted not only standard reports, but the ability to easily create custom reports. This could not be accomplished using their former system.
The RainMaker Platinum Legal Practice Management Software Solution
The RainMaker Platinum Legal Practice Management software solution achieved the law firm’s goals by giving the attorneys desktop access to information they needed to manage their day-to-day activities. RainMaker Platinum legal practce management software's flexibility allows each attorney and staff member to set up and use the system based on their own needs and working habits. Our Legal Practice Management Software for Law Firms offers features such as document merge to create correspondence and emails, a complete contacts directory and synchronization of docket/calendar events and contacts with Microsoft® Outlook and PDA-type devices, help to connect RainMaker Platinum's functionality directly to the firm’s enterprise-wide applications.
The Partners are now more confident that there is a conflicts system in place that is reliable, easy to use, and, as an added bonus, includes a complete search of the Specially Designated Nationals list (SDN). The integrated Collections module of the RainMaker Platinum legal practice management software has improved cash flow with its ability to establish business rules for collections procedures and automate the process to enforce those rules. The built-in collections workflow proactively handles notification of collectors and partners when action is required. In addition, RainMaker Platinum law practice management software for law firms includes a single, easily managed database which solves the problem of multiple third-party databases for the firm’s critical applications, and eliminates the need to synchronize disparate data and the inevitable finger-pointing that occurs between third-party vendors.
The reporting has opened up a whole new world of information to the law firm. In addition to the standard reporting inherent in the Financial Management modules, RainMaker Platinum brings on-screen reports and inquiries directly to each professional's Web browser and desktop. From a single screen for a client or matter, attorneys can access financial information, see all activities that have taken place on a matter, track collection efforts, view indexed documents, use contact information and browse billing and payment transactions.
RainMaker Platinum Legal Practice Management Software Can Help Your Law Firm
- With our legal practice management software, you can ensure each matter is staffed appropriately through "what-if" analyses to deliver maximum results to the client and profits to the law firm.
- Increase flexibility in time entry with multiple formats which mimic manual timesheets.
- Easily navigate between matters to capture time at the source through Multiple Smart Timers.
- Ensure the law firm’s cash collection objectives are met and that the average age of outstanding receivables is reduced.
- Leverage existing knowledge of clients to create cross-opportunities which will result in increased revenue.
- Leverage bi-directional integration with Microsoft® Outlook to standardize calendaring and contact information.
RainMaker Platinum Legal Practice Management Software - Product Features:
- Time and Expense Entry – The Time and Expense Entry functions in Legal Practice Management software substantially reduce the effort for attorneys to enter and track their time. Reports are available on screen or in hard copy, providing immediate information for the attorney. Ease- of-use functions include; a combined lookup of clients & matter on a single screen, select the last 10 matters used, build user defined short hand codes and a Microsoft® Outlook-like daily, weekly or monthly calendar view. Your mobile attorneys will like the ability to do time entry on their notebooks while they travel and synchronize it next time they connect to the network or use web time entry from any remote PC.
- Core Module – The core module of RainMaker Platinum Law Practice Management software is comprised of three components; entities, contacts and employees. These components provide the firm with legal-specific Customer Relationship Management (CRM) capabilities. With simple point-and-click technology, you can manage your clients, cases, contacts, prospects and employees and all related parties. Advanced functions of the core module include; the ability to customize the system by designing new screens and user-defined fields, unlimited addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses, the ability to track the history of changes to all critical information, the ability to mail and email merge documents, track your attorney CLE credits and so much more.
- Advanced Conflict Avoidance – RainMaker Platinum Advanced Conflict Avoidance module helps your firm manage conflicts of interest by utilizing the latest in search engine technology to perform critical searches through the entire database. Through a comprehensive search, this module enables your law firm to base decisions on sound information. This system provides for; quick searches, SmartAlert email messaging, complete historical records of all searches and results and extensive reporting capabilities.
- Docket / Scheduling – Your law firm can easily manage people, time, critical events, activities, workloads and assignments with a click of the mouse. This legal practice management software's module provides a complete overview of personal, group, office and client/matter schedules in an instant. Quickly determine what is scheduled, what needs to be completed and who is responsible for each activity. Advanced features include SmartAlert email messaging, a history of all changes made for each event, time entry creation from within the docket screen, firm designed court-rules, multi-activity templates and a date calculator. Since the RainMaker Docket system has a bi-directional integration with Microsoft® Outlook/Exchange data entry can take place in either product and the system is always synchronized.
- Collections – Providing law firms with the ability to measure and manage the entire collections process, the RainMaker Platinum Collections module assists in improving cash flow while maintaining client relationships. This module is integrated with RainMaker Financial Management and Microsoft® Outlook/Exchange server. RainMaker Platinum legal practice management software for law firms enables firms to PLAN, MANAGE and CONTROL collections through automated wizards and SmartAlerts.
- Marketing / Mail List Management / Marketing Projects – Market to existing and potential clients through the Marketing and Marketing Projects modules. Your firm can build new mail lists based upon multiple criteria, utilize the export wizard to merge with Microsoft® Word or WordPerfect or email programs, and track attendance at marketing events. Attorneys and secretaries will like the fact that it is fully integrated with all the other RainMaker Platinum modules, substantially reducing data entry.
- Outlook-Exchange Server Integration – RainMaker Platinum law practice management software provides real-time, two-way synchronization of clients, matters, contacts, collection and docket activities between Practice Management software and Microsoft® Outlook/Exchange Server. This integration improves productivity and ease of use by allowing a user to manage contacts and docket events while in Microsoft® Outlook, or after downloading them from Microsoft® Outlook to a Palm or PDA-type device.
- Document Management Service (DMS) – e-RainMaker DMS is an on-demand secure and scalable document management service that allows you to share files and collaborate with business partners, vendors, employees, associates and clients over a secured Web interface. This secure and scalable service enables you to store and retrieve documents, email, fax and access files from anywhere, anytime.
In addition, e-RainMaker DMS includes valuable disaster recovery services all at a low, fixed monthly cost.
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