Once again, we here at TurboLaw are very excited to announce a major new release of our simple, easy-to-use time and billing software, TurboLaw Time and Billing version 1.20! This is a major new version of TurboLaw Time and Billing, and includes some exciting new features that make it even easier to manage your firm’s billing and timekeeping.

New feature: Reports

The biggest new feature in version 1.20 is the new Reports module. This new module, which can be found on the left-hand navigation bar (right next to “Graphs”) allows you to pull up various reports on how your firm is doing.

The available reports include:

• Received payments
• How much have I billed, overall
• Billed Expenses
• Billed Time
• Unbilled Expenses
• Unbilled Time
• Paid bills
• Voided bills

All of these reports can be filtered by date, as well as other options such as including or excluding certain clients, staff members, or categories. Most reports also include the ability to “group” the results so that you can see, for example, all of your billed time, grouped by client.

In addition, all of the reports can be printed, previewed directly on your screen, or saved to one of several formats, including PDF, RTF (an editable document format), plain-text, Microsoft Excel, or CSV.

New feature: Export to LEDES

Another major new feature in this version of TurboLaw Time and Billing is the ability to export a bill to LEDES 1998B format. This format (which stands for “legal electronic data exchange standard”) is used to submit bills electronically. With version 1.20, you can now click the Export to LEDES button when viewing a bill to save it to this format, so that you can submit it electronically.

Other improvements

This version of TurboLaw Time and Billing also includes a number of other improvements:

• When viewing a graph, the labels along the X-axis will now automatically rotate 45 degrees when there are more than 5 labels to help make it easier to read (so that the labels don’t overlap one another).
• When merging data from another TurboLaw Time and Billing database file, the program can now detect when two entries are identical so that unnecessary duplicates are not created.
• There are a number of behind-the-scenes improvements to the Time and Billing database to significantly reduce the (already small) chance of file corruption when opening a file on an unreliable network connection (e.g., a wireless network).
• The bill and statement template editors as well as the print preview windows have received a graphical update.

As always, your TurboLaw Time and Billing program will check for updates automatically and notify you when a new update is available. Just watch for the pop-up balloon, or for this message at the bottom of your screen:

Many of the new features in this version of TurboLaw Time and Billing were inspired by feedback we received from our users, but we are always looking for more ways to improve the program – so if you have any ideas, suggestions, or other thoughts, please let us know what you think. (If you don’t have TurboLaw Time and Billing yet, you can try it for free for 30 days.)

We hope you enjoy this latest version of TurboLaw Time and Billing!