
About AbacusLaw
AbacusLaw helps improve client service and firm growth by providing users with the tools to simplify case management.
AbacusLaw helps legal professionals keep their cases progressing, and prevents them from missing important deadlines. The solution’s features include legal and rules-based calendaring, document and form automation, case management, conflict checking, data capture, document and email management, reporting, time tracking, billing and accounting, and more.
Users can dynamically capture critical case and client details, and collaborate with the entire staff to schedule appointments. Calendar rules and workflows can automatically schedule a series of events to help track important deadlines. Users can centrally organize entire cases and include relevant information such as contacts, events, documents and notes. AbacusLaw helps users search for any conflicts of interest, and provides a large volume of standard reports.
Users can run AbacusLaw (and any other software application) within Abacus Private Cloud for for a disaster-proof solution with increased mobility, reliability, security and control. Abacus Private Cloud can be accessed via smartphones and tablets on both Android and iOS platforms.
Pricing starting from:
US$69.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$69.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
AbacusLaw User
Reviewed on 23/1/2019
This program has been very user friendly. Info is easy to add or delete from a file in this...
This program has been very user friendly. Info is easy to add or delete from a file in this program. It keeps issues very organized. Tabs can be customized to your firm.
Pros
This software allows us to keep our client's files organized. We can tailor this program to what we need in our client's files based on what out firm does, and/or what type of case it is. We can keep up with our calendars and everyone can log in from wherever they are and see the daily organizer for all or individuals. It allows us to keep notes in files, monitors for conflicts, and is very useful for setting ticklers to use as reminders. I find it very useful that it keeps up with all the players and their info under "linked names". Also keeps up w/ events, docs, & emails in one place.
Cons
If things are moved on the main drive, it breaks the links in abacus and they are no longer able to be found or traced if whomever moves the doc or breaks the link doesn't make a new one at that time.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
This Saved My Business
Reviewed on 5/5/2020
Pros
As a small law firm you would think that software and a private cloud are luxuries reserved only for "big" firms but you are wrong. To be efficient, organized, avoid malpractice, and spend more time billing and less time on admin, a small firm needs legal software like AbacusLaw. When I wanted to add staff, the Abacus Private Cloud let all of my team utilize the AbacusLaw software with ease, from home and from other states where I am also licensed. And when COVID-19 hit, it was the AbacusLaw software and the Abacus Private Cloud that let us continue work uninterrupted, serving clients and not having to lay off a single person.
Cons
I wish there was a way to keep two separate books of business in AbacusLaw's accounting software since many small law firms are not "traditional" firms but several separate solo practitioners working together but with different accounting. The only "bad" part about having such a versatile and essential piece of software is on the occasion where it isn't working life seems to end. It has become indispensable. If that is a "con" that would be the biggest one!
Reasons for Choosing AbacusLaw
Credenza reached end of life and was bought by AbacusLaw's parent company. I had to switch and I was worried but the switch was worth it and all my data migrated over.Reasons for Switching to AbacusLaw
I have worked with all four of those before when working with other attorneys. None were as versatile as AbacusLaw. Some had serious bugs in trust accounting. Others had horrible customer service and some had interfaces that were not user friendly. Then there was the price on some of the better ones. Finally none of them had the other software, security, and support I needed to grow my business.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Thought it would be better
Reviewed on 5/5/2020
I really thought Abacus was a better product than it has turned out to be. It can't do basic things...
I really thought Abacus was a better product than it has turned out to be. It can't do basic things that an accounting system can do. It's a so-so product.
Pros
I liked that it could integrate with our business systems as they are.
Cons
The add-ins do not work consistently and have more cons than pros. The reporting is not very good and making deposits that are not client checks makes no sense. The system is good for basic legal clients, but anything more complex and there's issues. You can't just double click on a number in a report to get more information on it like many other software programs. If you print a check, you can't change anything about it with an edit; you have to delete the entire thing to make small changes. There is also no way to track time reductions truly. Entering time takes forever because you have to go into each matter separately and enter your time instead of a large platform to enter time for each matter on one sheet. Editing bills takes so much longer than it should because of how it has to be done.
Reasons for Choosing AbacusLaw
The software was never setup right from the beginning and it had been too long running it at about 25% of what it was worth.Reasons for Switching to AbacusLaw
I thought it was the best product for it's money at the time.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Abacus Law - A Year In
Reviewed on 30/3/2020
We wanted a product that allowed us to have a 360 view on our productivity, profitability, case...
We wanted a product that allowed us to have a 360 view on our productivity, profitability, case management and accounting software. Abacus has provided us with this in one package.
Pros
The time ticket and notes functions have increased our accuracy and efficiency in billing, and provide attorneys and partners with the ability to provide clients with accurate status reports on their matters. The document management function mean that teams can access all information quickly. The software allows partners to track their teams productivity and evaluate work in progress.
Cons
The software does not provide for multiple currency databases - although Abacus built several for us. The outlook function is not so stable and with us use several currency databases, you have to keep switching the outlook function in each database. The reports format takes some getting used to - they would be easier to use if they could be downloaded as excel spreadsheets.
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Amicus AttorneyReasons for Choosing AbacusLaw
The software designer could not fully develop it and went out of business. The product was also not linked to our accounting package, which meant that we spent a lot of time manually developing work in progress, debtors and matter productivity reports.Reasons for Switching to AbacusLaw
Abacus bought Amicus Attorney just as we were beginning to review it.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Good not Great, but what is...
Reviewed on 5/5/2020
Our billable hours have increased, due to the ease of use of the timekeeper processes.
Our billable hours have increased, due to the ease of use of the timekeeper processes.
Pros
Linking ability between names, matters, the calendar and to email.
Cons
Least favorite is so ironic. In Abacus Accounting retainers are painstaking and excruciatingly burdensome to keep track of and requires manual allocation to timekeepers.
AbacusLaw FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for AbacusLaw.Q. What type of pricing plans does AbacusLaw offer?
AbacusLaw offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$69.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of AbacusLaw?
AbacusLaw has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does AbacusLaw support?
AbacusLaw supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does AbacusLaw support mobile devices?
AbacusLaw supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does AbacusLaw integrate with?
AbacusLaw integrates with the following applications:
Comm-unity, Keap, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Outlook, Nextiva, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Skype for Business
Q. What level of support does AbacusLaw offer?
AbacusLaw offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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