A beginner’s guide to starting using Legal Practice Management Systems

It wrenches our hearts to witness legal professionals still struggling to integrate and balance front office and back office operations along with their legal practices. Unlike the other professional domains, the legal stream has always been a little late in adopting and adoring technology into its system. However, in recent years, the trend has picked up the pace and more legal firms and professionals are vouching for legal technology software, especially, legal practice management systems to make their work more streamlined and organized.

However, what legal practitioners often get confused about is the difference between practice management software and document management software. Let us first deep dive into this and clarify it for the readers to be able to make a more informed decision. 

While a legal document management software provides a centralized solution for all the documents, be it in the form of emails, communications or any other case-related document, a practice management software is all these and a lot more. Practice management software helps in streamlining both the front-end and the back-end operations and thus makes the life of lawyers much easier and simplified. To summarize, practice management software takes care of everything from documentation, appointments, tracking, billing, time-keeping, and accounting apart from case management. The integration of both functions has significantly enhanced the performance as well as the productivity of legal professionals and legal organizations.

Benefits of Practice Management Software

As already mentioned, legal practice management software manages end-to-end functions for a lawyer starting from integrating the front-end and back-end to managing core legal functions. When meticulously implemented, legal practice management software can prove to be extremely fruitful to amplify productivity, efficacy, and client services. Let us look at some of the benefits that practice management software brings along on a lawyers table:

• Centralized management and access to all legal case-related matters like client documents, report generation, document generation, etc.
•  Enhanced client servicing, confidentiality, and communication.
• Real-time time and expenses tracking as well as managing and billing minutes.
• Instant and customized invoice generation.
• Amplified data security, storage (cloud-based), and backup.
• Ease of auditing.
• Automated data generation for cases.
• Better litigation management.
• Reduced errors in contracts and agreements.
• Higher productivity and profitability while saving on time and effort.
• Automating mundane and repetitive processes or tasks.
• Better team management and enhanced communication within the team.
• Enables better customer support and aids in retaining existing clients as well as acquiring more clients.
• Enables working on the go with a fully digitized workflow.

Now, if you haven’t already used a practice management software, it might be a tad ambiguous to you while choosing the right partners for your requirements. It is important that you choose judiciously as this is going to be an investment worth a lifetime. This is why Lexzur has introduced a state-of-the-art legal practice management software named “Lexzur Core” and encompasses all functions related to a lawyer’s daily routine, be it the backend or frontend of legal management, under a single umbrella. It is a holistic legal practice management solution that helps legal firms and solo practitioners to manage cases end-to-end. It organizes case details, streamlines standardized processes, and enables exceptional client management and experience. 

Let us look at what makes Lexzur Core the most holistic legal practice management solution:

• Task Management
  

  The simple and innate interface allows easy tracking of the tasks while keeping the team members connected and updated through email notifications in real-time.



• Time Management
  

  Tracks every billable minute, records work hours, tracks, and maintains deadlines and case dates while setting automated reminders so that you don’t miss any date or deadline.



• Financial Management
  

  The integrated technology helps firms and legal practitioners to keep a track of all the expenses, generate invoices on the go, ease auditing, and other financial matters. The in-built billing module along with complete accounting features helps in maximizing revenue and efficacy.



• Client Management
  

  A centralized and more streamlined client management system integrated within the software helps firms and individual legal practitioners to offer an enhanced client experience, superior client communication and ensures easy access to client data and updates.



• Document Management
  

  The centralized cloud storage enables storing all documents and data on a single platform, easing access and sharing, quick editing, and identification of documents.



• Contract Management
  

  The centralized module allows users to manage contract creation, execution, and analysis, reduces contract errors, and maximize operational performance.



• Intellectual Property Management
  

  It tracks all intellectual properties including trademarks, copyrights, patents, and other forms of intellectual property.



• Reporting
  

  Easy and on-the-go report generation, analyzing workflow performance, and tracking time and data.



• Notification System
  

  Generates instant notifications of updates and alerts to stay abreast and achieve all legal tasks on time. 



• Corporate Management
  

  Helps in building a more collaborative, accessible, and proficient corporate with superior practice management software.



• Case Management
  

  Keeps a track of cases and manages them with its consolidated document storage, streamlined processes, and offers better visibility into the overall performance of the firm.

• Litigation and Hearing Management
  

  This is one of the most coveted features of Lexzur practice management software. It consolidates every information relevant to litigations and cases, all over a single platform that is both easy to use and simple to manage.

Technology has come as a boon to the legal domain as it has benefitted any other industry. However a late in resorting technology, lawyers have come to realize the potential that technology has to offer to them. This has also resulted in a surge in the adoption of technology in legal practices. Lexzur has already emerged as a popular choice among legal professionals and firms globally with its unmatched technology offering for its clients in the legal domain. It has resolved to enhance proficiency and offer an augmented experience. 

“Lexzur has helped us maximize the use of legal tech. It has proved to be a high-end solution that has greatly helped us develop our legal practice.” – Lexzur user.

“With Lexzur, we are able to centralize all legal data including corporate, transactional, and litigation related data in a single platform and ensure higher security levels.” – Lexzur user.

If you are contemplating the idea of incorporating a legal practice management solution for your legal firm or even as an individual practitioner, go no further. Lexzur Core brings to you a world-class solution.