efaxing No hardware required! Get paid faster!

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1 10 New Features

2 efaxing 10 LEAP Office Add-On 10 LEAP Office Add-On 10 Get paid faster! There are few things more annoying than doing good work and not being paid for it. The more payment options you provide, the sooner you will be paid. In other words, you need to make it really EASY for your clients to pay you. LEAP RapidPay includes the most extensive range of payment methods available to small law firms - providing you with the ideal mechanism to accelerate your cash flow. It also eliminates thousands of manual and error prone bookkeeping activities. Our special DEFT invoice enables your clients to not only pay cash or send a cheque in the usual way, but to pay you securely for invoices and trust deposits using: BPay; At the Post Office using PostBillPay; Online by credit card; By phone by credit card (direct to the bank). So your clients will have lots of options and no excuses! Bar-coding and Biller Referencing ensures that when money is receipted, the system knows the matter and invoice that is being paid. Funds go into a Clearing Account with Macquarie Bank ready for transfer to your normal bank account. Sample footer for invoices and statements All monies receipted are listed in LEAP Accounting and are allocated to the correct matter at the click of a button. LEAP RapidPay Start Keep all your current bank arrangements and have a Clearing Account for the collection of payments that you transfer daily. LEAP RapidPay Standard Extend online efficiency to Trust and Office accounting. LEAP RapidPay Premium Including powerful online Controlled Money management. No hardware required! Sending and receiving faxes has never been more convenient. LEAP efaxing frees faxing from the constraints of the fax machine so that you can access faxes directly from LEAP Documents. LEAP efaxing is self contained - you don t need a fax machine, you don t need any additional software and there are no additional support costs. Sending an efax is almost identical to sending an , and the fax is of course saved automatically to the Electronic Matter. There is also a transmission record for every fax sent. Send faxes directly from the Electronic Matter Receive all faxes into a single Inbox and allocate manually to the correct matter Print proof of delivery Use existing fax number or select a new a new fax number Eliminate hardware Unique pricing model Fixed price local faxes! Setup Setup is quick and easy. Just contact the National HelpDesk and we will have a consultant help you through it - it does not take long at all. If you are a new client, just ask the LEAP Consultant and he or she will set it up on your behalf when onsite. Pricing Inbound number rental Once off portage of an existing number (If required) $65.00 Outbound fax local - (fixed price for entire fax) $0.30 Outbound fax long distance $34.95 per month $0.18 (p/p)

3 10 10 LEAP Office Add-On 10 LEAP Office Add-On All the guidance and precedents you need! LEAP Office10 includes access to the Step-by-Step Legal Practice Guides and Precedents for the common areas of law in the state in which your purchasing office is located. Step-By-Step Guides provide practical guidance to assist lawyers and their support staff to successfully complete matters. Each Guide includes precedents that have been prepared by the authors and coded by the LEAP Content Team to work with the data in the Electronic Matter. Step-by-Step Guides are linked to the Matter Type in LEAP Office so at the click of a button you have access to research and support materials that are relevant to the matter you are working on. Because the Guides are online, they are constantly updated and are accessible to you anywhere you have an internet connection. There are extensive Precedents. The high level of integration allows you to: 1. Select a Precedent from the Practice Guide; 2. Automatically merge data from the matter you are working on; and 3. Automatically save it to the matter. Unique aspects of the publishing model includes that: You are able to discuss the law directly with the Authors to clarify points and make suggestions; If you need a precedent that is not in the Guide, you can request same and the authors will use their best efforts to find one for you; You can customise a precedent in exactly the same way that you create your own precedents. The Step-by-Step Legal Practice Guides and Precedents are published by BY LAWYERS FOR LAWYERS and are made available to users of LEAP Office10 by arrangement with Smokeball. Unrivalled convenience and efficiency! LEAP Searching specialises in providing online searches and manual services to small law firms. As search requests are integrated into LEAP Office10, it is far more efficient to place your search request in LEAP Office than using any other searching provider. Substantial savings are realised as data entry is virtually eliminated through the integration and disbursements are automatically captured in to LEAP Accounting, saving both time and money on every matter. Consolidate disbursements with one supplier Because LEAP Searching provides all a firms online searching, property enquiries and manual searching (settlements, etc) needs, you only need to administer a single monthly invoice for all services. A single payment each month is all that is needed to settle all your searching disbursements, and the confidence to know that you will have no end of month write offs. Order Searches from the Electronic Matter Because details have been entered into the Electronic Matter, there is no re-keying needed to place an order. Data fields are pre-populated and appropriate utilities and authorities are listed for selection reducing the amount of expertise needed to do the work. Receive Search results directly into the Electronic Matter Online services will return the search result almost immediately. Other services will take a little longer depending on the service provider. Conveniently, search results are automatically stored permanently in the Electronic Matter from which you ordered them. They can be merged, then printed or ed at the click of a button! Cost are automatically debited to the correct matter ledger at the time the search is completed As soon as the search result is delivered to the Electronic Matter, the cost is debited to the matter ledger. This immediacy means that you will bill every disbursement and eliminate having irritating disbursements that miss the bill. An enormous amount of bookkeeping data processing and reconciliation is eliminated by this integration.

4 New User Interface Simplified terminology Extensive export to Excel capability New file archiving process Protected trust funds Trust retainers Multi-matter invoice Right click functionality Batch invoicing Multiple cards in matter ledger Adjustment and redistribution of fees Sorting & resizing of matter list Improved time and fee analysis Templates for invoices and statements integration for invoices and statements Help on all screens Branch P&L reporting More integration everywhere! Record Cost Recoveries and Personal Expenses. Go directly to the matter in LEAP Documents and LEAP Accounting. Record value based fees. New Portable Timesheet Work in the office, online over the internet or offline.

5 Online help - the LEAP Wiki LEAP Office10 includes the first release of the LEAP Wiki, which over time will become the primary source of documentation about all LEAP products. From the new Help Icon choice of: Going to Wiki Help and browsing or searching; or Executing Search Wiki for Help on this window The LEAP Wiki is a collaborative environment. at the top right of most screens you have the Any LEAP user on Support is authorised to edit and enhance the content. Just as the well known Wikipedia has created substantially accurate material, we believe that over time the LEAP Wiki will be enriched by contributions from clients, certified consultants, resellers and LEAP staff. Upgrading to LEAP Office10 The upgrade to LEAP Office10 includes an upgrade of the 4D development environment and database that LEAP Office 10 uses. This database upgrade requires access to your Server and all Workstations. Services to do this work will be offered by the LEAP Consulting Team at standard consulting rates as well as by authorised IT Partners. The upgrade of your LEAP data is completed automatically after the software has been upgraded. All upgrades will require pre-approval by the National Consulting Manager. New features training - free webinars LEAP will provide free daily training webinars on the New Features. Details of the webinars and registrations are available at If you require on site attendance to review the new features, this will be provided by the LEAP Consulting Team at the standard consulting rates. Get LEAP Office10 To get LEAP Office10 you need to: LEAP Wiki 1. Choose who you want to perform the upgrade; 2. Submit Workstation and Server Snapshots to LEAP for approval; 3. Have the upgrade Scheduled; 4. Book your staff into the training webinar. System requirements LEAP Office does not have any special additional system requirements but current system specifications do apply for good performance. Prior to releasing V10 to your firm, we will ask you to complete Workstation and Server snapshots for approval. Organise your upgrade now! Contact our National Consulting Manager today! leapoffice10@leap.com.au Phone: For more information on LEAP Office10 visit Legal Software LEAP Legal Software Pty Ltd e sales@leap.com.au w Melbourne: Level 2, 520 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 P (03) F (03) Sydney: Level 8, 189 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000 P (02) F (02) Brisbane: Level 1, Turbot Street, Spring Hill QLD 4000 P (07) F (07) Adelaide: Unit 8 / 198 Greenhill Road, Eastwood SA 5063 P (08) F (08) Perth: Unit 1 / 1 Hector Street Osborne Park WA 6017 P (08) F (08)