Feature Release: March 2025

At Lawcus, we are committed to enhancing your experience with a platform that evolves alongside your needs. As part of the Lawcus 2.0 release, we are excited to unveil innovations designed to help you maintain cleaner data, improve organization, and streamline processes within your law firm. Let’s dive into the details and explore the advantages of these features for your practice.

Merge Duplicate Contacts: Organize Your Contact Data

Managing duplicate and accidentally created contacts can be a frustrating and time-consuming task. The Merge Contacts feature solves this problem by allowing users to merge contacts with the same name, email, or phone number. Here’s how it works and why it’s a game-changer:

• Lawcus automatically identifies duplicate contacts based on name, email, or phone number, bringing potential duplicates to your attention.
• You can choose specific fields to merge, ensuring that only the most accurate and up-to-date information is retained.
• Once merged, all redundant entries are consolidated into one clean, unified contact record, eliminating confusion and errors.

Learn how to merge contacts.

Merge Duplicate Matters: Simplify Your Case Data

Managing duplicate, redundant and even related matters can create unnecessary confusion and hinder productivity. With the new Merge Matters feature in Lawcus, users can easily merge duplicate matters by matter name or matter number. Here’s how it works and why it’s a game-changer:

• Lawcus automatically identifies potential duplicate matters based on matter name and matter number and alerts you to these overlaps.
• Select specific fields to merge, ensuring that only the most accurate and relevant information is preserved.
• Once merged, all redundant matter entries are combined into a single, unified matter record, simplifying case management and minimizing confusion.

Learn how to merge matters.

How This Helps?

1. Enhanced Data Accuracy: Consolidating duplicate or related entries cleans and improves the reliability of your database, reducing client communication and reporting errors.
2. Improved Productivity: Spend less time searching for the correct contact/matter and more time focusing on your clients and cases.
3. Streamlined Communication: A unified contact/matter record ensures that all team members work with consistent and accurate information, improving internal collaboration.
4. Better Organization: A clutter-free contact list makes finding and managing client information easier, boosting efficiency.

The Merge Duplicate Matters and Contacts feature ensures consistency and ease of merging Contacts and Matters as needed, beyond duplicates. Experience the power of a simplified, organized matter management system with Lawcus today!

Note: The merge contacts and matters functionality will only be available to users on the Elite plan in the future.

Streamlined Forms: Organized and User-Friendly Data Entry

We’ve revamped our core forms to make data entry faster and more intuitive. Introducing the New Person, Company, Matter, and Lead forms! These forms are not just about adding data; they are about creating a system that is easier to use, better organized, and tailored to your law firm’s needs.

• The forms are designed to be simple and usable, allowing users to input the required information quickly without unnecessary complexity.
• Custom fields are now more organized and flexible, enabling you to capture and categorize data in ways that align with your firm’s processes.
• Standardized forms ensure data is entered uniformly, improving reporting accuracy and overall system organization.

The New Matter form now features an accessible left panel, allowing users to switch between sections like Client Details, Matter Details, Billing Preferences, and Custom Fields without losing their place. Additionally, users can minimize or maximize the form window, offering greater flexibility when multitasking.

Conclusion

These features are designed to address fundamental challenges faced by law firms. Whether you’re struggling with duplicate contacts or matters or seeking a more organized way to collect data, these updates will improve the clarity, efficiency, and functionality of your practice management system.

With these new tools, Lawcus continues to empower legal professionals to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional service to clients. Experience the difference these features can make in your practice today. If you have any questions, please contact us via chat support or email at support@lawcus.com.

Say goodbye to cluttered data and disorganized workflows. Lawcus 2.0, with contact/matter merging and streamlined forms, will help you embrace the future of law practice management.