Thursday, March 04, 2010

LawMaster's Marketing Intelligence

Market Intelligence (MI) is the information relevant to a company’s markets, gathered and analyzed specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision-making in determining market opportunity, market penetration strategy, and market development metrics.

LawMaster's Marketing Intelligence includes;
- Reports that will enable analysis of campaigns to maximise effectiveness;
- Single database of information;
- Automatic data capture to entities who are included in marketing campaigns;
- Targeted selection of entities for marketing campaigns;
- Analysis of the performance of any campaign over numerous years.

Marketing can be an expensive exercise and particularly costly if your strategies are poorly planned. LawMaster offers a solution that allows you to classify your contacts, plan your strategy and then execute your plan using our integrated workflow/automation tool, the LawMaster Task Management system. Information is made available to you in the most useful form that will provide you with the necessary information to analyse the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. This is an invaluable tool for amending and creating lucrative strategies.

The fully integrated marketing function of LawMaster is simple and easy to use as it works in conjunction with the rest of the system. For instance, an address used for an entity will be the same throughout the database therefore any changes to this entity will be saved in every facet of the system. The automated processes extend to marketing communications, during mail outs data will automatically save to each entity and is available for future use. As an example, the ability to specify or “opt in” for electronic direct marketing is available as an attribute; this allows clients to choose to be included in certain selective mail outs such as newsletters.

The marketing function also extends to include unique marketing matters that are designed to track budgets and costs of an event being organised. Once the event has taken place attendance is captured and specific attributes can be established for the entities.

Most marketing people find the analytics the most useful – LawMaster Business Intelligence “BI” in action!

Chile Earthquake: 1000 dead and 2million homeless

Over the past 50 years Chile has had multiple earthquakes, resulting in a magnitude of destruction.

The first earthquake recorded in Chile was called the 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake, to this day it is the most energetic earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. The death toll of this quake was estimated to be approximately 5,000 people and monetary loss was said to be estimated at $400 to $800 million US dollars (which equals 2.9 to 5.8 billion in 2010 dollars).

The most recent earthquake, Saturday 27th February 2010, was the strongest quake affecting Chile since the magnitude 9.5 1960 Valdivia earthquake and is the strongest earthquake worldwide since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. It is the seventh strongest earthquake ever recorded (the 1906 Ecuadorian earthquake is tied for seventh with it), 500 times more forceful than the 7.0 M earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.

Rating 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, this quake has an estimated death toll of 1,000 people and monetary loss could exceed $15 billion. This catastrophe has left over 2 million people homeless, injured or otherwise affected. As some of the worst affected areas woke up to badly damaged cities Sunday, looting broke out, leading several mayors to ask the central government of to issue the extreme declaration of martial law.

The country has fallen into chaos as hundreds of people raided petrol stations to steal fuel as well as supermarkets for food. Public transport services had been suspended, and the supply of power and gas had also been cut off.

Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a crowd of looters carrying off food and electrical appliances from a supermarket in Concepcion. Local press reported that over 1,000 soldiers were deployed across the southern city of Concepcion.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Litigation Support

LawMaster Litigation support is about much more than simply disclosure, although that is significant in itself.

LawMaster Litigation support is about complex searching of evidence, classification and reclassification of documents, finding relationships between documents and groups of documents. The type of support services offered will depend on the needs of the attorney and may range from research and documentation of facts and precedents before a case comes to trial, or assisting in the determination of damages once a case has been tried.

LawMaster helps you to structure your case and retrieve and search with tools designed to assist with briefs, chronologies, creating court documents and as much more as your imagination will offer you. The end result is being ready for trial earlier, much earlier than the other side, plus faster responses, accessible and fully researched evidence, which leads to better results for your clients and more profits for you.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Our Latest Release is Now Available

Innovation comes "standard" in LawMaster Newest Software Release.
LawMaster, in accordance with our commitment to our customer base and our policy of keeping our software on the cutting edge of practice management technology, has released Version 10.4.3606.

This latest version of LawMaster contains more than 155 enhancements to our current system as well as the development of several new features including:

  • Microsoft's new Windows 7 operation system is supported under this release of LawMaster.
  • The Business Intelligence Module has been further refined to enable bench mark data to be migrated between LawMaster databases.
  • The Litigation Support Module has been reinvigorated with a number of enhancements to improve overall functionality.
  • Payroll and Personnel has been updated with a number of significant features which include: enhancements to superannuation reporting requirements, accrued leave based on actual hours worked, loadable tax scales & tax scales table; and back pay processing.
  • Workflow Processing has been enhanced with a number of new statements and functions to improve your firm's automation capabilities.
A comprehensive list and explanation of all new features and enhancements can be found by either accessing the release notes through LawMaster / Help / LawMaster Release Notes or by request.

To obtain our new release lodge a request through the support system. New clients are encouraged to contact LawMaster on 1300 135 214 to speak about your requirements with a sales representative.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Legal Matter Management

Legal Matter Management can be defined as the comprehensive project management of legal matters within a law firm or corporate legal department. Matter management software systems serve a variety of functions including

• Storing all electronic and hardcopy documents to a single file,
• Searching capabilities across all documents electronic and hardcopy,
• Comprehensive matter information in one screen,
• Easy single click intelligent document and correspondence merges,
• Easy single click access to contact details,
• Elimination of the need for timesheets via automatic time recording; and
• All daily functions available from main screen.

Time is so valuable in a legal firm; it is what you sell to your clients, so a more effective production method can give you an enormous advantage. LawMaster offers a comprehensive range of Legal Practice Management functions integrated into a single software program. The benefits of this are infinite; one database of information, reporting facilities across a wide variety of variables and the ability to produce all of your matter work from one program, one source of information, making you more effective and more profitable.

LawMaster allows you to perform any matter work such as merging a fax, creating a document or calling your client whilst automatically saving this to the file. Storing all case/matter information on LawMaster allows users to easily search and retrieve any electronic or hard copy records stored on the file. This storage method saves time and is extremely effective to ensure important documents are never lost and that the file is never “misplaced”. The system uses a predetermined set of tasks which will automatically action each task in succession. It is a fast systematic approach to routine work, such as conveyancing, however it is most effective in more complex files.

Legal Software suitable for Windows 7


Lawmaster legal software has recently released the latest version of its highly regarded practice management software for law firms. Keeping up to speed with technology, Version 10.2.3606 was developed for 100% compatibility with Windows 7 and will continue to establish Lawmaster as the leading legal software company in the Australian market. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, LawMaster has achieved the highest level of competency from Microsoft and have the knowledge and commitment to implement technology solutions that match the exact requirements of any law firm that uses their software. Windows 7 has been fully tested and is supported by LawMaster as an operating system for our software. The new update, available to all existing clients, contains over 155 enhancements as well as a number of new features. As a front runner in the legal forms software market, Lawmaster strive to innovate and boast the ability to automate and streamline all your processes unlike other legal software applications. Document management, payroll automation, litigation support and trust accounting software are all areas in which Lawmaster's software has been developed to improve your practice. For more information regarding Lawmaster's latest update to their market-leading legal software, visit the Lawmaster website.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Document Management Software for Law Firms

As a firm in the legal environment, one of the first things you must invest in is some high quality document management software.

Unlike other business, as a law firm you can be bombarded on a daily basis with a list of documents as long as you can remember, and that can be just for one case! Without a suitable document management solution it's not long until your documents are out of order and unmanaged, making life just that much more difficult.

That's why our team at Lawmaster have developed a document management software solution that is one of the best available on the market. Lawmaster software includes; Automatic saving of documents, Powerful searching and quick access to all documents, Movement tracking to show who is working on a document and Valuable security measures on documents.

Effective document management can be priceless in a critical moment. Eliminate time wasted in searching for mislaid documents or handing over files worked on by another lawyer and improve your productivity with Lawmaster Legal Software!

Furthermore, any Microsoft document type is supported and to review these documents fast read only access previews are available or you can choose to edit the document. Having all of your documents in one program enables searching across your entire database. Searching is available in an easy to view grid screen which has powerful options for quick access and retrieval. The single database of documents also means that you are able to show who is working on a document with LawMaster's check in/out movement tracking. Saving all documents in one place is also a better safeguard. Security is paramount in law firms, and as a result Lawmaster has established a comprehensive security capability which restricts access of documents to unauthorised users.