Legal Files Software, Inc., a leading developer of case and matter management software, today announced the general release Legal Files 8.0 Web, the newest version of its popular web/browser-based legal software.

“As our customers’ organizations grow and change, their legal case and matter management needs grow and change as well,” said John Kanoski, CEO at Legal Files. “With this major new release, Legal Files is growing and changing to meet those existing and, most importantly, future needs. I am pleased to say that many of these new features and enhancements are a direct result of suggestions, recommendations and ideas from customers. Since the company’s start more than 20 years ago, we have viewed our customers as partners in developing flexible, intuitive solutions to manage what matters to them.”

Personalized, online demonstrations of the new version of Legal Files may be scheduled by contacting the Legal Files Sales Department at Sales@LegalFiles.com or (800) 500-0537.

Following, by category, are just some of the new features and benefits offered in Legal Files 8.0:

Efficiency Tools

 An Open File Wizard to more quickly open similar types of matters with fewer key strokes;
 New Team To-do and Team Calendar Reports, with additional on-screen viewing of Team To-do lists and Team Calendar, along with other Team Management enhancements, including routing and file access;
 Integration with Google Maps to locate the physical location of any contact, view maps and obtain driving directions—without leaving the case or matter in Legal Files;
 Compatibility with Internet Explorer 9 to continue to fit within the most current technological environments;
 Additional Attendees on Calendar items to better manage the planning of larger events and providing updates to all attendees;
 Name Card/contact record enhancements that include the ability to attach Name Cards to customer-defined mailing lists;
 HeadsUp Display enhancements include a new undo button that provides the ability to easily restore removed items from Legal Files’ comprehensive in-box;

Searching

 A “Last Search” button on all Advanced Search windows to make it easier for users to repeat a search;
 Additional Advanced Search enhancements that have added additional searching parameters especially to Documents, Name Cards and the File Related People index;
 Recent Files enhancements that include access from main menu bar and display of the open file number on the pop-up balloon;
 Conflict Check enhancements that provide more searching parameters which contain “Exact,” “Contains,” “Sounds Like,” or “Begins With” options;
 Transaction Summary enhancements that provide for the selection of any combination of transaction types (calendar, documents, e-mails, mail log, notes, phone log and to-do’s), with the ability to quickly save/retrieve search criteria;

Reporting

 Dozens of new "Hot Print" reports with a preview option that enables the printing of on-screen data in a standard format;
 New Management Dashboard Reports that offer a graphical presentation of data, on demand, for open files categorized by each customer’s specific file details data;
 Standard Crystal Report enhancements to both the output and the available parameters;

Document/Contract Management

 File Signers functionality to enhance the document generation process;
 Private documents and notes functionality to protect access to confidential documents and notes, while allowing access, if desired, to the case or matter in which they are stored;

E-Billing/Budgeting

 Budgeting enhancements that include sub-budgeting at the matter level, allowing multiple vendor budgets with several sorting and categorization options;

 E-billing enhancements to incorporate all the new budgeting features, and the addition of added validation against a matters budget, along with payment tracking information.