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<b><i>Software Review:</i></b> FreshBooks: A New Billing Alternative

By Charles Hartley
Practice of law, not business of law. That's why I went to law school, and that's what I like to do. Maintaining my San Diego County practice in the black requires that overhead be kept to a minimum, both in terms of costs and time.

Billing is a necessary evil with any small business, law practices included. It must be done to stay in business and keep a roof over the office, but it takes time away from actually practicing law.

The first year I practiced in California, I was with a small civil litigation firm that used a brand name, law firm-specific billing software package. The firm had no computer network, and the procedure was that each billing employee would enter their own hours at a single PC in the firm's library. Costs were separately entered by one of the administrative specialists, bills were then created, circulated for proofing, and eventually reprinted and mailed, usually with a lag of at least two weeks after the close of a given billing period until a client even had the opportunity to pay the bill.

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