Stop renting PracticeEvolve. Own the system your firm runs on.

Limitation dates, hearings, settlements and every undertaking given in the firm's name sit in one place with a daily countdown, ranked by consequence.

• check Limitation dates always rank first in the attention list
• check Each undertaking records who gave it, to whom, in what words and by when
• check A file cannot close while one of its undertakings is still open
• check A practice manager sees every fee earner's exposure in one answer

Every new name is searched against every client, party and matter the firm has ever held, and the client care records each cite the rule they satisfy.

• check Conflict searches read the firm's entire history, closed files included
• check A new matter is refused while a name on the other side is a hit
• check Engagement letter, scope, fee basis, due diligence and instructions tracked per file
• check No bill goes out on a file without its engagement letter

Time is recorded the way a lawyer would say it, and the figures a managing partner runs the firm on come straight from those entries.

• check WIP by matter, with the oldest unbilled time flagged
• check Lock-up by client: unbilled work plus bills still unpaid
• check Recovery by fee earner after write-offs, at the rate really achieved
• check A warning when a matter nears its estimate, before the client sees the bill

The database sits on the firm's own system. Anyone the firm chooses can read it, and nobody has to approve leaving.

• check One shared database for the whole firm, or a laptop copy to try it
• check Fields, matter types and stages renamed to match how your practice groups talk
• check Trust money stays in your dedicated, audited trust account system
• check Open source, so the firm never needs anyone's permission to change it