PCLaw Mobility is a new feature in PCLaw 11. It allows you to access some PCLaw information from a Smartphone and track some time and expense entries. I am going to assume that you have Mobility Setup in PCLaw.
On the Browser, on your smart phone, go to: https://pclawmobility.lexisnexis.com/
Users will need to enter their email address and passwords. If a user cannot login, first go to Options –> Security in PCLaw.
Make sure the Enable access to mobility feature is checked and that the correct email address is entered into the program.
If you still cannot login, call Technical Support.
There are 4 Main Modules in the Program. The Calendar function is not out yet, but will be available in a future release. However, you can sync your smartphone’s calendar to PCLaw via Outlook, so this not a deal breaker.
Contacts
Before Mobility, you would have to sync all the PCLaw Contacts with Outlook and then on to your smartphone. Most users don’t want all the firm’s contacts in their smartphone contacts, because it makes it hard to call your mom when you are searching through 10,000 people.
Mobility Contacts keeps your firm rolodex separate and always available. It is the best of both worlds.
If you click a phone number on a device like an IPhone:
You can dial the number.
If you click on an email address:
It will open up an email with the user’s email address in the To: Section.
Neither the phone call, nor the email, will be recorded back to PCLaw as phone / email entries, at this time. However, best practices would indicate after you made the phone call / email, you would record a time entry on the device and that would keep a record.
You can also add new contacts or edit them.
Matters
You can create a matter or edit the fields shown above for a matter.
You can also view the related contacts and the description.
Time / Fee Entries
You have the option of choosing between creating a Time and Expense.
The Description field is for the description of the time entry.
The Duration is the amount of time you spent on the task. A timer does not run automatically, so you will need type in the time entry.
Code is the task code and most likely will be BW, unless you are using Task Based Billing.
Matter is the assigned matter that the time entry will go on.
