Legal Materials and Law Firm Management

An assignment was to research database management systems, timekeeping and billing in a law office.

Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: New Client
Lesson 3: Time Records
Lesson 4: Entering Cost/Accounting Expense Records
Lesson 5: Processing a Payment
Lesson 7: Processing and Printing Reports

Computers enable accountants and auditors to be more mobile and to use their clients’ computer systems to extract information from databases and the Internet. Technology is quickly changing the nature of the work of most accountants. There are many software packages, accountants summarize transactions in the standard formats of financial records and organize data in special formats employed in financial analysis. Accountants perform more technical duties, such as implementing, controlling, and auditing computer systems.

As a result, a growing number of accountants and auditors with extensive computer skills specialize in correcting problems with software or in developing software to meet unique data management and analytical needs.

Internal Revenue Service
Everything you will need from the IRS There's even a special section for tax professionals: http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/index.html

Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
Full text of the accounting principles

International Accounting Standards Board
unofficial summaries of international standards are available on their website.

LexisNexis Revenue recovery to help assist your law firm in debt help and solutions

case management software:
including viewing calendars, capturing complete contact information for clients, tracking and managing events, recording information about matters and case files, including links to documents and case notes, conflict checking, managing telephone calls and calculating dates.

Legal Accounting Software from LexisNexis - LexisNexis’ PCLaw is the most widely used legal billing and accounting software in North America that offers a comprehensive collection of powerful, easy-to-use tools for time, expense, billing and receivables tracking.

Practice Management Software from LexisNexis- LexisNexis’ Time Matters software has been the most widely used practice management software and has provided new ways to help law firms, legal departments and other organizations streamline operations.

Major Legal Resource Sites

Law Library Internet Resources - from University of Washington School of Law; subject-related internet sites worldwide, listing of sites for searching.

Georgetown Legal Explorer - links & searches of legal information & resources.

Cornell Legal Information Institute - links to many legal resources.

Legal Materials

Self Help Legal Materials

CA Court Books and Help

Lincoln and Law Books

Law Textbooks from LexisNexis which provides law professionals with authoritative legal documents, books, resources and legal software from LexisNexis

A variety of books are available on legal topics including legal encyclopedias, practical handbooks, and scholarly books are also available at the school store but always is best to check online for price differences.

Legal Ethics

Antitrust Information
• Department of Justice
• Federal Trade Commission

Fraud can be committed through many methods, including mail, wire, phone, and the Internet. Be sure that your business has the proper protection.

Government Resources for Fraud Detection and Prevention:
FTC Consumer Protection information
White House consumer protection services
InterGov's Latest Web Statistics

LexisNexis offers individuals more information about anti-money laundering compliance solutions through their free white papers and direct links to free resources throughout the LexisNexis online community.

Banking and financial services marketplace depends heavily on the perception that it functions within a framework of high legal, professional and ethical standards. A reputation for reliability is the one of the most valuable assets of a financial institution.

Management and Financial Links
The WWW Virtual Library: Finance
More Financial Links

FinCEN, which administers the BSA and is charged with safeguarding the financial system from the abuses of financial crime, including terrorist financing, money laundering, and other illicit activity.