News Archive for April, 2006

Element55 is pleased to release new, zero-click integration with CMS and CMS.NET accounting systems by ADERANT. This integration module, available as a standard component to all customers of the Legal55 Time Capture System, eliminates all manual steps for porting committed time to CMS, and ensures that time submitted through Legal55 can be reviewed in CMS in near-real-time.

“With this module, our integration with CMS is a matter of a few clicks on a configuration screen, and everything synchronizes from there. This continues our dedication to making time capture a seamless experience for both attorneys and the finance professionals behind the scenes,” said Element55 CEO Ray Deck.

Gray Plant Mooty Mooty & Bennett PA, a 160-attorney firm based in Minneapolis, benefited from the elimination of manual steps in the import process. Said Kerri Edwards, Time & Billing Supervisor, “the ease of not having to run an importer anymore is wonderful. There are human errors that can happen with the generic import process and now they’re not an issue. ”

Gray Plant Mooty benefited from the near-real time aspect of the import. “In our reporting, hours recorded don’t count until they are released in CMS, so the rapid auto-update lets us see how we are doing immediately,” said Edwards.

Learn more about this new, closer integration at http://www.element55.com/integration/cms or call us at (617)423-0692.

Time capture expert Ray Deck authored a new white paper to advocate on behalf of attorney-centricity in implementing time capture systems. This white paper is in a series describing ways to make time capture a zero-click experience for attorneys. You can download more white papers http://www.element55.com/publications

Attorneys create value with their time. Spending time worrying about their time detracts from that value, as does forgetting about time spent on even smaller activities. Events not recalled cannot be billed. That recall should be the goal of all time capture, and those systems must orient around the attorney.

The legal profession is diverse in specialties, and in activities that one undertakes even within a specialty. Our research indicates that an attorney routinely conducts 40 significant, billable activities in a single working day.

Our research indicates that unless one can capture at least two-thirds of an attorney’s time through automatic time capture, the attorney still will still face essentially the same challenge of “what did I do” to fill in the gaps.

As such, it is important to integrate time capture into as many aspects of the attorney’s working experience as possible. Time spent on desktops, phones (both office and mobile, remote access, smartphones, PDAs, and BlackBerry handhelds must come together to form a common journal, which should be accessible from any of these platforms.

Automatic time capture that is oriented around the attorney’s working conditions and style will transform the submission of time from an onerous process riddled with leaks to a streamlined, simple event for the attorney that generates more complete value for the firm.

Read the full paper! http://www.element55.com/publications/attorney-centric-time

Cambridge, MA - Element55 announced the successful first fortnight of the innovative Webinar-A-Thon to Fight Cancer, raising $500 in the inaugural two weeks of the program.

The Webinar-A-Thon to Fight Cancer was a two-week series of live demonstration presentations introducing law firms and legal departments to automatic time capture. For each participant in a “webinar” phone-and-web demonstration session of 20-25 minutes, Element55 made a donation to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, the leading research and treatment institution for pediatric and adult cancer.

Element55 CEO Ray Deck said, “This program allowed Element55 to raise money for this amazing institution while raising awareness of automatic time capture for the legal technology community. There is no better definition of win-win in my book.”

On the basis of this initial success, Element55 is extending the webinar-a-thon for the remainder of 2006. Contributions will be made for each participant in scheduled introductory phone-and-web sessions.

Said Deck, “If this is what we can raise in two weeks, imagine the good we can do in nine months. We’re looking forward to making this fundraising effort an integral part of our business this year.”

Interested parties can sign up or learn more at http://www.element55.com/events/webinar-a-thon

Element55 encourages direct contributions to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Gifts can be made through their web site: https://www.jimmyfund.org/gif

Element55, a division of eGlean, Inc, is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, Element55 is a rapidly-growing developer of automatic time capture solutions. Legal55 is Element55’s flagship product, offering reliable and accurate automatic time capture. Legal55 version 1.0 was released in July 2002. As of January 2006, the software has evolved to version 5.4, capturing time from dozens of applications, phone systems, and knowledge management systems, and routing time entries to major accounting systems, including CMS by Aderant and Elite by Thomson West. Clients using Legal55 have reported capturing an additional six hours per attorney per month through making the automatic time capture software available to their billable timekeepers. Legal55 Handheld Edition for BlackBerry devices was released in 2005. For more information about the highly respected software offered by Element55, please call (617) 423-0692 or visit the company’s web site at www.element55.com.

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