Amicus Attorney IV now comes in three versions: the single user Organizer version; the Advanced Edition for up to 20 or so users (equivalent to the old "Team" version), and a Client/Server edition that will accommodate up to 200 users.
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Regardless of what type of smartphone you use (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, etc.), Amicus lets you use either an Outlook/Exchange Contacts & Calendar Link or Google Contacts & Calendar Link as conduit for integration with handhelds. Choose the one that works best with your smartphone.
Bi-directional link includes automatic polled synchronization for changes on Appointments and Contacts.
Amicus Attorney features a specially formatted export template to transfer time entries to Juris. The template also enforces rules in Amicus to ensure that data is entered in a format compatible with Juris.
The dynamic Accounting Link with PCLaw® allows you to automatically share your Client/File and Matter information between the two programs, and allows you to post your Amicus Attorney time entries directly to your Matters in PCLaw.
Automatically schedule your court dockets according to State and Federal court rules. By licensing CompuLaw’s court engine for use with Amicus, you can schedule hundreds of related dates in just seconds. All the appropriate deadlines are instantly entered on your calendar and in your client’s file.
The integration with Dropbox® lets you add and edit documents within Dropbox. It creates folders for all your client files in Dropbox, so when you add a document to that folder it appears in Amicus – automatically associated with that client file.
Integration with Worldox® allows you to take full advantage of the document management capabilities of that application within your Amicus environment. Client and Matter information is exported to Worldox from eligible Amicus Files.
The first one we want to talk about here in some detail is Abacus Payment Exchange. What is this? This is, essentially, introducing electronic payment processing, and that is credit card as well as eCheck or ACH transactions right into Amicus Attorney. The idea is it's all about getting paid quickly, and also, it's also about payments made easy.
Let's jump back to the PowerPoint for a second, and the next thing I want to talk about here, quickly, is our mobile app. This is something we're awfully excited about, and this is a big push for the entire company, and that's the introduction of a mobile app for your Amicus Attorney.
Let's move right along to what's next, and that is some really cool changes to document management. The idea here is, Amicus Attorney, actually, has a couple different ways you can manage your documents. One, we call user managed, and the other is Amicus Managed.
The next one is billing security profiles. This is just, essentially, in response to customer needs, is we've gone and added options to really lock down the use and controls for your billing users.
We're going to move right along here. The next section is email enhancements. This is we're pretty excited about too, the updated look and feel for your messages, really, we've improved how you can go and resize, resizing the entire thing, not just the note or the body itself. We've also made it easier to add events to your emails.
Another quick one I want to take a look at, and then we'll jump in to some Amicus Anywhere, is the new filtering options.