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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

Just a quick heads up — Intego’s Virus Barrier software may cause conflicts with TimeNet and TimeNet Law. It also has been known to cause Kernel Panics (OS X crashes) and conflicts with other software. Other Mac developers have been reporting this as well.

Quite a few emails in the last few weeks of people saying TimeNet / TimeNet Law was crashing or behaving strangely. It turns out when you disable/delete Virus Barrier, the problem goes away.

Another solution is to add the application & the data folder to the “Trusted Files” within VB X6.

We have just launched a new website design, you can see it in action at http://www.applesource.biz

I’d love your feedback on the new design!

TimeNet Law Control Center is also now officially available. It is a separate application that you can use to control what users can and cannot do in TimeNet Law. There are also client-specific permissions and report-specific permissions. TimeNet Law Control Center also allows you to view your TimeNet Law Audit Database – track all changes in the system, when the change occurred and who the change was made by. For more information, check out the new TimeNet Law page: http://timenetlaw.com

TimeNet Law is also moving into a new tiered pricing structure. This allows you to custom-build a system that will work exactly how you need to to. You only pay for the features you need.

Because of the massive efforts that have gone into TimeNet Law in the last couple of years, we are planning to announce the new pricing structure on February 15th.

If you’re on the fence about purchasing TimeNet Law, now is the time to do so! All existing TimeNet Law users will be grandfathered in to the Billing & Payments Module and the Reporting Module. There will be more information on the pricing and availability of TimeNet Law modules announced on February 15th, so in the meantime take a look at the new TimeNet Law page and get a hint of some exciting new features, including Task Code Billing/E-Billing Compatibility and the all new Control Center.