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TimeNet Law 2.7.6 is now available! Get over 30 new features, fixes and improvements.

Download the update right now at timenetlaw.com! New users can download the free demo as well.

Complete Release Notes

[Split Billing and Matter Party Features]
- Matter Parties can now be imported from the client list
- The main client is now always included in the party list, but can be excluded from billing by setting their % Responsible to 0%
- Only payments from this party will be reflected on the associated invoice
- Fixed some issues with balance forwarding and previously applied payments
- Now generates multiple invoices for each party whether or not you save the invoices to disk

[Summary Lines]
- Timekeeper Position is now an option on summary lines
- If a timekeeper has multiple rates on an invoice, that timekeeper shows up multiple times with each rate in the summary
- Summary Lines are now available in bulk invoicing

[New Contingency Billing Feature]
- Set which slips to charge the client for
- Set the percentage of recovery for your fee
- Option to deduce slips charged to the client before or after calculating the fee

[Moving Things]
- The list of matters is now properly sorted
- New ability to move slips to another client

- New Network Setup Assistant – makes setting up or changing networking settings very simple
- New Add Slip window to quickly add a slip or batch of slips without having to open a matter
- New option to print full history statements in Billing Center
- New Date Met field in Client Info
- New option to turn on or off alternating row colors in invoices and reports
- New option in Slip Analysis Report to show Slip Notes instead of Slip Names
- New Billing Hold option to Matter Settings – when set, no slips on that matter can be billed

- Spell Check now works in slip name fields and all other fields
- Unapplied Credits and Matter-Level accounts have now been added to the Automatic Bookkeeper
- Payment Center’s From field now lets you easily pick who a payment is from by the relative matter’s party list
- Improved invoice layout — titles, previous balance and condensed statements, and more customization options
- Fund balances now shown on the right rather than left to align with other balances

- Fixed an issue with late fees not automatically being applied under all conditions
- Fixed an issue with late fees and taxes sometimes being changed on an invoice
- Fixed issues with Billing Center batch billing
- Fixed issues with the Slip Analysis Report not properly calculating or displaying time totals under some settings
- Fixed an issue where invoices wouldn’t display properly if there were apostrophe’s in the file path
- Fixed an issue with applying payments and entering data into the From field of the Payment Center
- Fixed an issue with checking for invoice number conflicts
- Fixed an issue with the timekeeper timer losing or gaining a second every few minutes
- Fixed an issue with copying/pasting and moving billed slips

In 2005, TimeNet Law 0.8 Beta was released. Since then, TimeNet Law has gone through many updates, been given hundreds of new features and fixes, and the family of TimeNet Law users has grown from a couple dozen excited, Mac-centric attorneys to now over a thousand.

We have never charged one penny for upgrades over the last 7 years. It was something that we wanted to avoid, to keep it simple and affordable to use TimeNet Law. However, as our user base grew, so did our need to support those many new users. Unfortunately, it is now to a point where we must charge a small fee for upgrades. We wanted to make the policy as simple and fair as possible, so here’s how it works:

When you purchase TimeNet Law, you get 1 year of free upgrades. Any users that purchased TimeNet Law before February 15th, 2011 (the day the new policy and prices went into effect) were given a free year of upgrades from that date. So, if you purchased TimeNet Law before February 15th, 2011, your upgrade plan will expire on February 15th, 2012.

To find out when your upgrade plan expires, simply go to “About TimeNet Law…” from the TimeNet Law menu.

So what is an upgrade plan? It’s simple. As long as your upgrade plan hasn’t expired, you can always download the newest version of TimeNet Law for free. Once your upgrade plan expires, you can continue to use your current version of TimeNet Law, for as long as you want, you will never be locked out of the system. You can download the new versions and check them out, but they will run in demo mode. You can then renew your upgrade plan, or revert to your last version of TimeNet Law, renewing at a later date if you wish.

The renewal costs $59.99 per license of TimeNet Law, regardless of which modules you have installed, and that gives you another year of updates and priority support.

I also wanted to thank you all for using TimeNet Law, thank you for all of the wonderful feedback, and thank you for the last 7 wonderful years. Here’s to many more, and your continued support will take us there!

TimeNet Law 2.7.5 is now available! This killer update includes over 20 new features and improvements, as well as a number of fixes and safeguards to improve stability of the software, especially under large database loads. You’re gonna love this update so check it out now!

Download a free trial of TimeNet Law 2.7.5 right now at timenetlaw.com!

Complete Release Notes

- Billed slips can no longer be edited, moved or deleted until the relevant invoice is cancelled – this is a safeguard to prevent billing issues
- Matters with billed slips can no longer be deleted – this is a safeguard to prevent billing issues
- Slip Analysis Report has new option to combine report or split by client
- Slip Analysis Report now shows time in tenths when that option is set
- Slip Analysis Report now allows you to not show any timed slips
- New option to show the Matter Number on invoices
- Improvements made to the slip timer
- Spell Checking is now enabled throughout the program. Red words are misspelled, right-click to correct or learn the word.
- Improved the behavior of the Matter Notes drawer and edit field
- Matter windows now show the total time and dollar amount of the selected slips at the bottom
- New feature to increment time up or down one tenth in time fields with arrow keys when time entry is set to Tenths
- New option to show Aged A/R on invoice footnotes
- New ability to withdraw funds from client/matter accounts without applying them to an invoice with detailed note entry
– Withdrawals will be shown on relevant matters like all other previous payments
– Withdrawals will not count towards collections and will be depleted and tracked from the initial deposit
- New Matter Settings option – Parties and Split Billing
– Add names, addresses, phone numbers, position titles and more to your matters
– Each party can be responsible for a percentage of the billing from this matter
– When invoicing, multiple copies with pro-rated balances for each party are generated
– Improvements and polish to invoice layout and headings
- Fixed issues with Payment Center and Billing Center when using certain tax settings
- Optimized Billing Center’s Invoices section
- Fixed an issue with Total dollar discounts and percentage discounts shown on invoices
- Fixed issues that caused crashes in the Payment Center

TimeNet Law 2.7.4 is now available! This update mostly addresses stability with Dropbox and other Cloud database storage scenarios, and fixes some report calculations.

Download a free trial of TimeNet Law 2.7.4 right now at timenetlaw.com!

Complete Release Notes

- Fixed some calculation issues and improved speed in various reports
- Reliability and data integrity improvements when networked
- Collection calculations on reports with date filters calculate correctly under all conditions

TimeNet Law 2.7.3 is now available! This update brings some great new features to the Client section of TimeNet Law, fixes some issues, and improves speed throughout the application.

Download a free trial of TimeNet Law 2.7.3 right now at timenetlaw.com!

Complete Release Notes

- Credit Report properly combines all like payments together
- Fixed an issue with the Credit Report search filter not properly filtering under some conditions
- Improved reliability of Payment Center
- Improved calculation of Credit History section in Payment Center
- Improved Client Information window
- Clients can now have unlimited phone numbers, email addresses and fax numbers, with labels
- Clients now have a New Parties section – Name, Role, Conflict Status (neutral, associated, conflicting)
- Improved progress bar on Ledger History Report
- Shrunk number of pages of Ledger History Report by 66%
- Improved efficiency of database in speed and size
- Various layout and UI enhancements

TimeNet Law 2.7.2 is now available! This update has been in the works for over a month, and with over 15 new features, lots of fixes, improvements and polish, we’re really excited about it!

TimeNet Law 2.7.2 is available now from our website at timenetlaw.com. A free trial is available for download if you’d like to check it out.

Complete Release Notes

- Joint Billing — ability to bill for multiple matters to one Master Matter
    - Can turn multiple matters into one invoice
    - Master Matter automatically links with all other matters in the same group
    - All linked matters are billed to the Master Matter for simple reporting
    - Quickly see which matters are linked from the Master Matter
- New Matter Settings button in Matter window toolbar
- New Address Book Viewer
- New system-wide keyboard shortcut for bringing up the timekeeper timer (default is Shift+Option+Space)
- New ability to omit the fund replenishment amount on invoices (when billing multiple invoices in one cycle)
- New ability to only show 1, 2, 3 or 4 lines of a Slip’s note on invoices, so the rest can be kept internal
- New Preference Option: Default Slip Time
- New Preference Option: Select which Address Book Group to pull contacts from when creating clients
- Conflicts found will now play an alert sound, if Play Sounds is enabled in Preferences
- Can now click the Conflict icon in the Main Window to see what the conflict is
- Bulk invoice generation only includes a required replenishment amount only on the first invoice
- The Slips list now remains active and editable while the timer is running in the Matter window
- Fund Deposits are now shown before Fund Withdrawals on invoice footnotes
- Invoices with both a dollar discount and percentage discount are now clearer
- All discounts are clearer on invoices
- When autosaving, Matters no longer lose focus of the field or list you are in
- In the Timekeeper Timer Link Slip window, clients are now sorted alphabetically
- In the Timekeeper Timer window, if a timer is running when making into a slip, the timer now continues running
- Timekeeper Timer slips now automatically start timing with preference option
- The Timekeeper Timer’s edit time HUD window now properly displays the OK button and other graphics
- The Timekeeper Timer’s edit time HUD window now properly allows time entry in hh:mm:ss or tenths
- Improved and optimized syncing of Matters and re-calculation after invoicing, canceling an invoice, applying a payment, etc.
- Slip notes shown in Slip Analysis report now appear consistently below the row
- Fixed layout of Slip Analysis Report
- Fixed an issue where Timekeeper Timers were not properly saving when quitting TimeNet Law
- Fixed an issue with Invoice Summary report’s Previous Payments section with certain date filters
- Fixed an issue in the Slip Analysis Report where Flat Fee Items and Additional Charges might be doubled
- Fixed an issue with disbursements showing a negative amount in the Payment Center under some payment conditions
- Fixed an issue where clients list temporarily might not show all clients after closing Preferences
- Fixed an issue with deleting deposits form Matter UAC funds
- Fixed an issue with sorting by last name
- Fixed an issue with Conflict of Interest checks

TimeNet Law 2.7.1 is now available for download, along with TimeNet Law Control Center 1.4. You can download TimeNet Law now from our website, or by clicking this link: http://www.applesource.us/pub/bin/files/timenet_law_1.zip

Release Notes

- Ability to set Matters as Inactive and hide them from the main list
- Ability to modify auto-complete list without going into Preferences (or needing permissions)
- Ability to move or refund money to and from all accounts
- Ability to turn events and completed tasks from iCal into billable slips
- Ability to apply dollar discounts to total, not just fees or disbursements
- Dollar discounts no longer show a leading 0 if the discount is less than 10.00
- Ability to allocate percentages of Matter revenue per Timekeeper
- New Revenue Allocation Report
- New Move Slips command to streamline moving Slips from Matter to Matter
- Added 3 new categories of ABA Task Code Sets: Counseling, Bankruptcy and Activity
- Fixed a rare issue with adding flat fee item slips
- Fixed an issue with Matter refreshing in a networked environment

TimeNet Law 2.7 is now available for download. You can download it now from our website, or by clicking this link: http://www.applesource.us/pub/bin/files/timenet_law_1.zip

Release Notes

- Fixed an issue where custom fields wouldn’t appear on invoices that were re-issued
- Fixed an issue where pasting data into parts of the system could cause data glitches
- Client Groups are now sorted
- Fixed an issue with creating Slips from the Timekeeper Timer
- Improved performance and reliability when working on a WAN (Dropbox, iCloud, etc.) network
- Fixed issues with changes not propagating to the network 100% of the time
- Fixed an issue that would cause errors when creating new matters or copying and pasting between matters quickly
- Fixed an issue that rendered a Client’s Billing Type unchangeable in Networked mode

I am pleased to announce that all AppleSource Software products are 100% compatible with Apple’s new OS X Lion, due out next month. Our software looks and runs great on Lion and will take full advantage of new technologies in Lion, such as auto-save, instant resume, versions, iCloud integration, and much much more. Stay tuned for more announcements!

TimeNet Law 2.6 is now available for download.

Release Notes

- Added an option to save invoices in CSV format
- Added new Monthly Report for Timekeepers and Clients
- Added new security settings to Control Center
- Made corrections to Balance Forward and Previous Payments when Bulk Invoicing
- Improved invoice layout
- Made some corrections to calculations performed when showing fund balances in the Payment Center
- Improved Timekeeper entry to include ID and position, and made Timekeepers easier to edit
- Made improvements to invoice summary lines
- Removed default coma on invoices and reports between city and state when fields are left blank
- Enabled graphic and textual headers to work at the same time
- Matter Filter in Slip Analysis Report
- Ability to show Flat Fee Slips and Additional Charge Slips in Slip Analysis Report
- Double-clicking a slip in the Slip Analysis Report now selects that slip after opening the matter
- Slip Analysis Report now can generate reports for clients
- Credit Report – double-click any Amount Left row to see detail of where the money is
- Fixed an issue with the Main Window remembering which client(s) were expanded
- Fixed an issue when copying and pasting slips from one matter to another
- Fixed various bugs from bug reports
- Fixed Group Totals showing incorrect 0.00 amounts on Invoice Summary Report
- Fixed an issue with automatic payment application on generated Invoices when using certain settings with Bulk Invoicing
- Fixed an issue with Matter Unapplied Credits balances shown on invoices