The Western New York Law Center has developed a unified timekeeping and intake made easy system (TIME) that runs under windows. Although available for only a short period, TIME is being used by Legal Services programs in throughout the country.   The program collects client and case related information quickly and easily, collects statistics required by the Legal Services Corporation and by IOLA in New York State, and generates all required reports.

TIME complies with LSC data gathering requirements. It warns users who are saving a case if those requirements are not complied with.  The program is user configurable, which eliminates the need to hire a programmer to make changes in it, contains a pro bono component, including a referral selection mechanism that allows users to search for an attorney based on the type of case they will take, the court they will appear in, etc., provides conflict checks and client lookups at the click of a mouse button, automatically generates letters from information that has been entered once, and keeps track of calls to a program even when no case is opened.

TIME can run locally or as a client/server module over a Wide Area Network or over the Internet.  When it is running as a client/server module, it allows remote users or offices to access the program.  Since the server does all of the processing of data, remote users do not need fast connections to receive data.  If you are interested in accessing the database running on our Internet server to see how this works over a WAN or the Internet, please contact us for the necessary files. 

Our software uses the same database engine used by e-filing systems developed for Federal Courts.  It will handle over 1.75 million case, client, or time activity records in the data files.