Also referred to as Managed Assigned Counsel, Alternate Defense Counsel, Appointed Counsel, or Panel Attorney, LegalServer provides a comprehensive set of tools to manage activities, time and expenses with contract/private attorneys, third party investigators and experts.

Manage important information about each contract attorney or outside expert, including the types of cases handled, number of cases taken, cases open, time spent, billing and communications.

Leverage the robust built-in reporting to get real time views into contract attorney activity. With role based permissions controlled by the organization, a contract attorney can use the system as their own CMS if needed, only seeing the cases they are assigned.

• Contract attorney case integration
• Create contractors (both organizations and individuals)
• Identify attributes of contractors such as subject matter expertise, languages spoken (interpretation) as well as languages written (translation)
• Assign contractors to a case
• Create work orders
• Create products and services, including fee structure
• Identify contractors with specific products and services, including contractor fee structures (if different than standard fees)
• Contract attorney timekeeping
• Create billing transactions (e.g., time spent, pages translated, etc)
• Create vouchers per case
• Create invoices
• Track and pay invoices
• Budget allocations
• Work order allocations
• Track total budget allocation per case, total invoiced per case, total budget allocation remaining per case
• Built-in reporting with real-time display of any metrics the system is capturing

With Outside Counsel management, enhanced reporting, mobile support, and ease of use, the Lubbock Private Defenders Office is thriving with LegalServer.