Law Office Technology

Going On and Offline in Amicus Small Firm Edition

If you are a laptop user that has Amicus Attorney Small Firm Edition, V, or V+, you can take your Amicus with you when you leave the office.  While you are at your office, you can go to Office –> Go Offline.   You will have the option of   copying your document templates down for use.  If you do not use Office –> Go Offline and bring your laptop away from the office, you will still be offline.

When you get back to the office you simply choose Go Online and your Amicus Database will sync with the database on your firm’s  server.  If Amicus asks you to, merge all data.  Sometimes this process can take an hour long and Not Responding does not mean that Amicus is not doing anything. 

 

Troubleshooting

Sometimes you cannot go online because Amicus tell you a record is locked or in use by someone.  If that happens, everyone needs to exit Amicus.  Someone at your firm needs to open up Amicus Administrator and go to Users –> Recovery Functions –> Unlock All Data. 

 

After this process runs, you should be able to get back into Amicus and go online. 

AutoDialer in Amicus Attorney

The autodialer is a nice feature in Amicus Attorney Premium Edition.  You need to have a modem on your computer hooked to your phone.  Once you do this in Amicus

 

Preferences –> Communications –> Messages

 

You might have to edit the registry by adding in this key:

 

This key is to be created under HKey Local Machine ... Amicus70 folder and add the following key.

Key                                                 Type                        Default

UseWindowsDialer                        DWORD                1

 

Now when you click on dial in Amicus, it will automatically dial the number for you.

Fujitsu ScanSnap Makes it very easy to scan to Sharepoint

I was talking to someone from Fujitsu the other day and telling him that it would be great if my ScanSnap 300 would scan directly into SharePoint.  He let me know that Fujitsu has had that feature for awhile.  I simply needed to put the install cd back into my computer and run the setup.

I chose Scan for Microsoft SharePoint ®

Then ran the wizard

 

Now when I scan, I can choose Scan For SharePoint

And can choose the location in SharePoint

This is great feature and it works flawlessly.