Lexis® Back Office powered by Billing Matters®

Capture more billable hours and manage your back office more effectively with Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters law firm billing software. This fully integrated solution shares the same database as Lexis® Front Office powered by Time Matters®. Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters offers basic and advanced billing, full accounts payable and receivable, comprehensive trust accounting, a flexible general ledger, check writing and reconciliation and more.

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Benefits

Improve your billing and accounting with flexible Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters.

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Save time.

Streamline your billing process by making the most of productivity and workflow tools, including a centralized billing and payables process manager. Customize prebill layouts to show exactly the data you need to review and approve invoices. Use Microsoft® Windows® printer trays to make document, invoice and check generation virtually effortless. Automatically e-mail invoices and use AutoTXT codes to save time entering billable hours, transactions and more.

Make billing easier.

Select custom options including a definable timesheet, demand check processing and client, matter and financial reporting to reduce the effort required to run your business.

Execute client billing your way.

You can generate a basic bill and post a payment in one easy step—or use advanced options, including split, flat, consolidated and allocated fee arrangements. You can set billing and accounting functions with lots of flexibility or lock down functions for tight control.

Better manage billing and trust accounting.

Easily generate a multitude of standard billing and accounting reports using various filters and sorts, including a client ledger report; a billing history report; and productivity and profitability reports. Simplify trust account management with features like matter-to-matter fund transfer and negative trust balance compliance. Use the receipt allocation reports to display receipts by originating, responsible and billable staff.

Choose the tools you need now.

Use one installation and adapt your process for current firm requirements. You can use Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters billing and accounting software as a stand-alone product or combine it seamlessly with Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters to manage your entire practice—from calendaring and scheduling to billing and accounting.

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Your practice can benefit from a range of billing and accounting features available with Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters:

Bill profiles and Bill Designer: Use standard profiles and bill layouts or define your own professional invoice with the Bill Designer.
Bill Express: Enter billable hours, expenses and payments, and create a bill from one screen.
Payments and transactions: Manage accounts payable and use Check Express for on-demand checks.
PayFlow Manager: Manage accounts payable and vendors. Enter and process payables, and view open items and history by vendor.
Account reconciliation: Set up general, trust and credit card accounts. Reconcile your accounts with an intuitive interface.
Billing and financial reports: Monitor your firm’s financial performance with reports including accounts receivable, work in progress, productivity, trial balance, balance sheet, income statement, general ledger and statement of cash flow.
Mobility: Work anywhere with laptop, PDA and Windows® Smartphone support.

Integration with specialized software

The deep integration between Lexis® Front Office powered by Time Matters® practice management software and Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters legal accounting and law firm billing software enables you to seamlessly manage client relations, matters/projects/engagements, calendars and scheduling. The integration is so seamless that you do not install additional software; you activate the features.

Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters also provides convenient integration with a variety of software packages, including:

Intuit® QuickBooks® for accounting—available when Lexis Back Office accounting is turned off
The Martindale-Hubbell® Lawyer Locator
CourtLink® litigation strategy and marketing tools
CaseMap® case management software

The full featured, multi-user Professional Edition of Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters allows individuals in an entire practice to access their critical client and financial information. It’s designed for firms that do not have the data volume to require an SQL database. As your firm requirements grow, you can make a simple upgrade to the Enterprise Edition.

The Enterprise Edition includes all the functionality of Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters and operates with a Microsoft® SQL database or Microsoft SQL Express to support the activities of firms with greater electronic data requirements. Enterprise Edition customers benefit from quick access to large volumes of information using a tool built on industry standards.

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2007 Law Technology News Readers’ Choice Awards

LexisNexis Products are Winners or Finalists in 10 of 14 Categories

For the fourth consecutive year, LexisNexis® Time Matters® (now known as Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters) earned a top Readers’ Choice Award at the annual Law Technology News Technology Awards, held January 29, 2007, at the LegalTech® New York trade show and conference.

The Time Matters® software won in the categories of Case/Practice Management for over 50 attorneys and Docket & Calendaring, while the Billing Matters® software (now known as Lexis® Back Office powered by Billing Matters®) won for Time and Billing for over 50 attorneys.

LexisNexis® products were winners or finalists in 10 of 14 award categories. “It is noteworthy that Time Matters has dominated this awards program since it began four years ago,” said Ralph Calistri, senior vice president and general manager of LexisNexis Practice Management. “The readers of Law Technology News have confirmed what law firms tell us every day: Time Matters and Billing Matters are recognized leaders in practice management offerings for firms of all sizes.”

With superior ease-of-use and integration, Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters, Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters, Lexis Back Office powered by PCLaw™ and LexisNexis® HotDocs® software have won more Readers’ Choice and Editors’ awards in industry publications than all other leading competitors. More than 50,000 firms, corporations and government agencies, along with hundreds of thousands of legal professionals, depend on LexisNexis software tools to improve productivity and profitability every day.

Law Technology News, a leading legal technology publication, is published by American Lawyer Media, which also produces the LegalTech trade show and conference.

LexisNexis Awarded Multiple TechnoLawyer @ Awards in 2006

LexisNexis receives 25 Awards from the TechnoLawyer community for outstanding technology, applications

LexisNexis took home recognition for several products and services at the ninth annual TechnoLawyer @ Awards, announced in June 2006. Time Matters (now known as Lexis Front Office powered by Time Matters) continued its reign as Favorite Case/Practice Management solution for the ninth consecutive year, and Billing Matters (now known as Lexis Back Office powered by Billing Matters) was named Favorite Time-Billing Solution.

TechnoLawyer is a leading online legal technology and practice management forum with more than 11,500 members. The comprehensive TechnoLawyer @ Awards recognize customer loyalty in the legal market.
LexisNexis recognition included:

Time Matters®—Favorite Case/Practice Management Solution; Favorite Document Management Solution; finalist, Favorite Legal-Specific Tech Support; finalist, Favorite Time-Billing Solution
Billing Matters®—Favorite Time-Billing Solution
The lexis.com® service—Favorite Legal Web Site, Favorite Legal Research Tool
LexisNexis® Total Litigator—Favorite New Legal Product of 2005, Favorite Litigation ASP
Applied Discovery®—Favorite Electronic Discovery Solution
CaseSoft®—Favorite Legal-Specific Tech Support; Favorite TechnoRelease of 2005; finalist, Favorite TechnoLawyer Contributor of 2005
CaseMap®—Favorite Legal Knowledge Management Solution, Favorite Litigation Support Solution, Favorite Practice Area Solution
TextMap®—Favorite Transcript Management Solution
TimeMap®—Favorite Trial Presentation Solution; finalist, Favorite New Legal Product of 2005
PCLaw™ (now known as Lexis® Back Office powered by PCLaw™/PCLawPro)—Favorite Accounting Solution
HotDocs®—Favorite Document Assembly/Automation Solution
Mealey’s™—finalist, Favorite Online CLE Provider
LexisNexis® Automated Forms—Favorite Legal Forms Solution
Collier TopForm™ Bankruptcy software—finalist, Favorite Practice Area Solution
QuickLaw™—finalist, Favorite Legal Research Tool

“Now in its ninth year, the TechnoLawyer @ Awards have become an institution,” said Neil J. Squillante, publisher of TechnoLawyer. “The multiple victories this year by LexisNexis reflect its commitment to customer service, and validate its entry into s

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