Lawcus – New Features December 2025

Major Enhancements

• Internal Invoice Notes: Invoices now support internal notes that are visible only to firm users. These notes can be used to record write-offs, discounts, billing instructions, and items that need review, and each note shows who added it and when.
• Firm-Level Control for Hard & Soft Costs: Firms can also control whether Hard and Soft cost activity types are used for expenses. When enabled, Hard/Soft fields appear on expense forms, grids, invoices, workflows, and reports. When disabled, these fields are hidden and only standard expense fields are shown.
• Appointment Scheduler Now Identifies Client vs. Firm Bookings: The appointment scheduler now identifies whether an appointment was booked by a firm user or by a client or guest. This helps workflows and notifications trigger correctly based on who created the booking.
• Practice Area Now Available as a Template Merge Field: Practice Area is now available as a merge field in both document templates and email templates. This automatically includes matter details in generated documents and emails.
• Improved Duplicate Check Popups: Contact and matter duplicate-check dialogs are now clearer, cleaner, and easier to understand.
• Smoother Loading Experience on Contacts & Matters: You’ll now see a proper loading indicator while data loads. “No Data” appears only when there is truly no information.
• New “Is Active” Filter in Key Reports:The Attorney Revenue Report and Aged Accounts Receivable report now include an “Is Active” filter. This allows reports to be filtered by active and inactive users.

Bug Fixes

• Workflow History Loading Issue: Resolved an issue where a specific workflow’s history was not loading and showed a network error.
• Cloned Matters Showing as Deleted: Cloned matters now load correctly and remain immediately usable when adding: Time entries, Expenses, Flat fees, and Invoices. No refresh required.
• Activity Category Not Filling Rates in Time Entries: Selecting an Activity Category now correctly fills in the rate and description when creating a time entry from a Matter or Lead.
• Report Layouts With Long User Names: Reports now gracefully handle long names without breaking alignment.
• 1-Day Event Reminders Now Working: Event reminders set to “1 day before” now send reliably.
• Invoice Note Merge Fields Fixed: Merge fields placed inside invoice notes now populate correctly.
• Outlook Add-In Fixes: Time quantity formatting fixed. Billable/Non-Billable checkbox restored to time entry template