LawRD offers a fully functional free 30-day trial. Thus, all those who are interested can evaluate the application before safely subscribing it.

This is our suggestion for the most effective free-trial:

• Upload real data from the get go. Add your firm, system users, contacts and matters using real data.

• Sign up at LawRD. For this, go to LawRD website and sign up for free:

• After signing in, LawRD starts a welcome wizard. Select two or three matters in which you are currently working on. The goal is that all lawyers start to register time spent and expenses allocated to those matters in a daily basis. On step 0 (zero) you should not only choose the system language but the hourly rate you usually bill your clients as well.

• Invite users to your LawRD account. These are lawyers and other employees at your firm. Afterwards, they will receive an invitation sent by email with all the data needed for them to start using LawRD:

• Add clients. Don’t forget to check the box of the contact you are adding if it’s a client!

• Close the wizard. Click on ‘Save and Close’ to leave the wizard and proceed to add your first matter:

• Add your first matter. Follow the new matter wizard steps for adding a new matter:

• Make sure that all employees start using LawRD right away.

The procedure ends here. In 7 short steps you signed up for LawRD, set up your account and added users, clients and matters.

The next step is the systematic reporting of time spent and expenses. A good theme for the next post on the blog.

With LawRD, lawyers and law firm managers can control the critical variables on their practices:

• The revenue per client and matter;
• Tracking time and productivity of their teams.

The main goal is the issuing of reports on the fly, whenever and wherever there is an Internet connection: LawRD is available as SaaS application!

Check on this presentation all functions of LawRD, in our SlideShare space:

The deployment of IT in legal offices is usually related to big investments on expert labour to install, upgrade and maintain. Simultaneously it is demanded from the staff time and availability to attend training, to get acquainted with the features, to streamline procedures and to make the most out of the applications.

Taking the human factor at its core, LawRD is an intuitive tool allowing users to fully and immediately use it, with no need for training.

LawRD doesn’t aim to do everything. It’s goal is only the essential in a simple and effective way:

• Register all billable and non-billable, tasks, expenses and resources in a newer, easier and swifter way;
• Team work and data sharing from anywhere at anytime;
• Improve Customer Relationship Management, create timesheets and schedules, manage tasks and costs;
• Permanent control and update on clients, files, bills, current accounts and on employees’ productivity;
• Management reports on: billing, profitability, billable hours and risk and safety management alert system.

All of this through an Internet connection.

You’ll be the judge of that. Try it for 30 days, free and fully functional.

Welcome to LawRD … it’s now online to pro-fit your practice !
   
LawRD is a SaaS application aimed at lawyers and legal office managers, as well as those who run companies’ legal departments.
  
Get permanently updated reports on clients, files and employees, on the fly. Control efficiency, profitability and costs.

Any internet connection stops low activity times and allows for “Productivity 2.0″.
   
Being web-based, it’s safely accessed from anywhere at anytime, enabling team work to users. LawRD aims lawyers’ ever growing demand for mobility and their need to instant access to data in an easy and simple way.
  
Register for a free try now!
 
The LawRD team.