August 16, 2005
MyJuris® for Law Firms
I try to stay away from putting commercials in MorePartnerIncome. From time to time, however, there are products that you just have to know about. Today, I reviewed the current status of a soon-to-be-released new Juris, Inc. offering. And, I can’t keep from giving you a peek at this revolutionary companion product for Juris® Law Office Business software.
The new option for Juris law firms is called MyJuris. It was designed specifically for the benefit of working and managing attorneys. First, it is a .NET application and works in the office or over the Internet. For working attorneys, it is the next generation in time tracking and reporting software and includes an option to go mobile using a Blackberry® or other PDA devices. MyJuris is easier and faster and it captures time that is already being worked but is not getting reported. With the mobility option, it converts downtime into productive time. Ipsos-Reid, one of the top 10 research firms in the world, reported that surveyed firms averaged 53 minutes per day of recovered productive time using mobile devices like the Blackberry—almost an hour per day per fee earner!
The most exciting aspect is what MyJuris does for the managing and supervising attorneys. It provides the situational awareness I have talked about in other postings. It is a business intelligence component that provides a secure command center with a complete field of view over the manager's area of responsibility. It includes not only the information in your accounting system, but also the pending information entered by working attorneys that hasn’t been finalized and passed to the accounting department. In short, it gives you the real picture—current as of the moment you view it. The MyJuris dashboard includes drill-down graphs, heat maps, calendar images and tables that provide you with real-time information in hours and dollars for the work being done and that previously billed by the legal team. The dashboard is customizable to make sure it includes the “key performance indicators” important to you.
What does MyJuris do for the manager? While most managers are limited to analyzing “why” after the fact, MyJuris equips managing and supervising attorneys with information in time to take corrective action that will change the outcome. That means increased per-partner income.
While MyJuris was built for the legal professional, its benefits do not leave the accounting and administrative side of the law firm without powerful new benefits. MyJuris will shorten the billing cycle, speed up cash flow and increase realization. It includes an automatic compliance feature that pre-audits time entries against client mandated rules, eliminating client rejected bills and mark downs because the firm’s bill for services included entries that violated the negotiated rules.
MyJuris is scheduled for release this fall. If you would like more information, contact Juris, Inc. at 877/377-3740 or e-mail info@juris.com.
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