October 19th, 2011 - ESILAW 2012 has just been released and is now available for download. This latest release includes a reprint checks feature, improvements to closing and re-opening client files, enhancements to Timetracker, a bill template editor, and several other minor improvements and fixes. Trials and demos can be downloaded by visiting the trial registration page. Existing ESICare subscribers can download the 2012 update using Check for Updates.

For more information on the 2012 release view the 2012 release notes.

November 29th, 2010 – ESI Software, Inc. announced today the release of ESILAW 2011.1, the latest update in the ESILAW family of products. This version includes a number of billing enhancements such as automatic bill recalculation, a new invoice journal report, e-mailing of bills and statements, and several other features.

"We've been working hard on 2011 and are excited to finally release it as it offers several new, practical tools for law firms." said Michael Saville, VP Operations at ESI. "We've added a number of new billing features such as an adjust bills feature with automatic recalcuation of bill totals, and entry of soft costs and anticipated disbursements. This makes our billing toolset one of the most powerful and flexible in the industry. In addition, we've included new features such as an E-mail Manager to e-mail bills and statements to clients, an invoice journal report, and limitation diary enhancements. We hope our customers will be pleased with this release as it includes a number of practical, time-saving features."

For more information on the 2011 release view the 2011 release notes.

April 28th, 2010 – ESI Software, Inc. announced today the release of ESILAW 2010.2, the latest update in the ESILAW family of products. This version includes reporting to Excel for the majority of reports, color coded cheques, enhanced automatic receipt numbering, and various other time-saving features.

"Our clients have been waiting eagerly for this release as it brings to the table one of the most useful features with reporting to Excel.", said Michael Saville, VP Operations. "In this release you can export just about any report to Excel into a usable accounting format, allowing firms to work with their data and combine data and reports. Firms both small and large will beneift from this new feature along with the various other enhancements that 2010.2 offers."

For a detailed list of what's new in the release read the 2010.2 release notes.

October 29th, 2009 – ESI Software, Inc. announced today the release of ESILAW 2010 law firm practice management and accounting software. The 2010 release features more drilldown reporting, a new A/R ledger report, export to Excel, custom fields, and several other minor features.

"We feel our customers will be very pleased with the 2010 release with the addition of more drilldown reporting and the new custom fields feature," said Michael Saville, VP Operations. "Drilldown will help them find and analyze information much faster. The custom fields feature will help them track more information and make use of it in areas such as document merges. Both of these features are a step in the right direction because they help increase efficiency in the firm."

For more information on this release view the release notes.

July 8th, 2009 – ESI Software, Inc. announced today the release of ESILAW 2009.4, the latest update for ESILAW practice management software. This release includes a new Microsoft Outlook interface for calendar, clients, and contacts, a payment allocation report, improvements to reporting, and several other user requested changes.

"We've received valuable user feedback over the past few months and are steadily incorporating those user requests into our releases this year. The features we're adding are very practical and designed to help end users leverage technology to further simplify tasks in a law firm," said Rick Bath, president of ESI Software. "There will be some great additions this year and we're confident our end users will be very pleased with what's in store."

For more information on this release or for a comprehensive feature list of what's new in the release refer to the 2009 release notes.

January 14th, 2009 – ESI Software, Inc. announced today the release of ESILAW 2009.3, the latest update in the ESILAW family of products. This version includes a new, highly intuitive menu interface that reduces clutter and allows end users to work from a single navigator. In addition to the new interface, 2009.3 also includes document creation tools that can be used to create client documents in Word and easily attach them to clients.

"This release is the next step in providing time-saving tools that our users have asked for," said Michael Saville, VP Operations of ESI. "The new interface is very intuitive and prevents users from having to open multiple menus to access features, while at the same time reducing clutter. It's great for new users because it's all about simplicity. The addition of our document creation tools will also help legal professionals save time by allowing them to easily create and merge client data into Word documents and attach them to clients immediately. " For a complete list of what's new in the release read the 2009 release notes.

October 21st, 2008 – ESI Software, Inc. announced today the release of ESILAW 2009, the latest release in the ESILAW family of products. This new version introduces several new features and enhancements to further improve on productivity in the firm.

"The 2008 release along with upcoming features that we plan to introduce in the next month or two are based on valuable feedback from our clients. We want to offer more useful tools that help firms streamline their operations in every aspect and we're working diligently to do so," said Rick Bath, President of ESI. The 2008 version offers a number of features and enhancements including a completely revised conflict checking feature, improvements to reporting, and additional drilldown and report exporting tools. For a complete list of what's new in the release read the 2009 release notes.

October 16th, 2008 – ESI Software, Inc. and eXpd8, Ltd. announced today the release of eXpd8 accounts, a legal accounting software solution for the UK market. This innovative partnership shows the forward thinking of two legal solution providers to combine front and back office products into a single solution to help law firms maximize productivity.

“We jumped at the chance to enter the UK market because we felt no other solution offered the versatility and ease-of-use attained by combining eXpd8 LAW and eXpd8 accounts (ESILAW) into a single solution,” said Michael Saville, VP Operations at ESI. “We’ve taken our practice management solution for the North American market, removed certain front-end features, and further tailored it to the UK market. It’s now the other half of the equation as the back-end for eXpd8 LAW, a robust practice management package that handles everything from e-mail and calendaring and to document automation and assembly.”

The combination of eXpd8 LAW and eXpd8 accounts will provide UK law firms with the versatility, scalability, and ease-of-use that today’s law firms demand.

August 26, 2008 – ESILAW has completed work on making their flagship product bilingual, showing their ongoing dedication to the Canadian market.

“A homegrown solution is preferable for many Canadian law firms. We can now say that we have a truly Canadian product, one that is 100% produced in Canada, one that is bilingual and one that can be used in all ten provinces and three territories in this country”, says Kevin McLean, Director of Marketing. “It also made sense to us as there are very few Practice Management Systems tailored for the French-Canadian market.” A complete list of ESILAW’s French features can be found at http://www.esilaw.com/avocats.asp. For more information, please contact Guy Lalonde, Sales Representative at 1.819.669.6117.

"ESILAW annonce sa solution comptable juridique entièrement
bilingue pour le marché canadien."

Vancouver, Canada - 26 août 2008 – ESILAW a finalisé son travail dans le but de rendre son produit phare entièrement bilingue, démontrant un engagement continue envers le marché canadien.

“Une solution maison est préférable pour la majorité de nos cabinets d’avocats. Nous pouvons maintenant affirmer que nous possèdons un véritable produit canadien, qui a été produit à 100% au Canada, qui est entièrement bilingue et qui peut être utilisé dans les dix provinces et trois territoires de ce pays” a affirmé Kevin McLean, Directeur du Marketing. “Selon nous, il était logique d’agir ainsi car il existe très peu de Systèmes personalisés pour le marché canadienfrançais.”Une liste complète des récentes fonctionnalités d’ESILAW peut être trouvée sur leur site au http://www.esilaw.com/avocats.asp et pour plus d’information, veuillez communiquer avec Guy Lalonde, Représentant des ventes au 1.819.669.6117.

April 21st, 2008 - ESI Software Inc, makers of ESILAW legal accounting, time, billing and case management software have just released v2008.2. This latest version amounts to over 20 years of continual progress and customer directed development.

“For the past 20 plus years we’ve been working closely with our clients to develop a product that truly provides all of the solutions that both lawyers and their support staff need in order to manage a law practice.” Says Michael Saville, VP Operations at ESILAW, “v2008.2 marks the point at which we have truly stepped beyond our legal accounting roots and moved forward to provide a full front and back office solution.” By providing cross platform data import and export capabilities, a suite of practice management tools, e-billing, and email management on top of their long standing accounting system, ESILAW has answered the calls of its clients for an “ideal legal software suite.”

November 28th, 2007 - ESI Software, Inc., a leading provider of time, billing, accounting, and client control software announced today that it's latest release, ESILAW 2008, is now shipping. This release includes features such as check requisitions, memorized entries, electronic payment entry, and more.

ESILAW 2008 is now available for general release to US, Canadian and International law firms.

October 30th, 2007 - ESI Software Inc, makers of ESILAW, announced the release of its Outlook e-mail management tool for legal professionals, Quickfile 4Outlook. This new time saving tool will automatically file, track and organize your client related e-mail correspondence.

“Quickfile has been better than I ever expected,” said Digby Leigh of Digby Leigh & Associates. “It just plain saves a tremendous amount of administrative time. It works seamlessly, and we can - by a single click - access any historical email on a client file.”

Michael Saville, VP Operations at ESILAW suggests “our clients have been asking for a way to integrate their client emails with ESILAW, and this is our response. We couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out.”

The release of Quickfile 4Outlook, complete with both ESILAW and Outlook integration, is proof of ESILAW’s continuing effort to stay at the cutting edge of software design. By doing so, ESILAW continues to provide its clients with the tools they need in order to most effectively manage their legal practices.

September 19th, 2007 - Technolawyer Newswire by Taeho Lim

Once upon a time no one seemed to care about user interface design. Then Apple released a music player with a breakthrough interface. Software companies changed their tune and focused their energy on simple, elegant interfaces. World peace ensued. Life was good. The end.

Of course, the story doesn’t really end like that. Lots of bad software design still exists. But some software companies have embraced interface design as a competitive advantage. One such company is ESI Software, which recently released ESILAW 2007 (pronounced “easy law”) — “time, billing, accounting, and client control software for law firms.”

One of the most notable new features is not a feature per se, but a “follow me” help system that guides you through the functions of the program. Also new is the “QuickStart Navigator,” which helps you set up the software. After setting up ESILAW, you’ll find the “ESILAW Navigator,” which takes you to any function in the program with one click. You can also create your own toolbar for even faster access to the functions you use the most.

If you bill your time, you can use ESILAW 2007’s Timetracker to keep track of it for you. It features time codes, timers, an integrated spell checker, and more. You can also email your time entries when on the road and import your time from other programs such as Amicus Attorney. ESILAW 2007 also supports task-based billing, including UTBMS codes.

As a full-fledged accounting program, ESILAW 2007 contains many features you would expect such as check writing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc., and a few you might not such as expense tracking and cost recovery. In addition to entering expenses such as travel, you can also automatically capture equipment costs from virtually any cost recovery system, including
Equitrac, PrintAudit, and Copitrak.

As you would expect, ESILAW 2007 enables you to generate many reports, including work-in-progress and collection realization. You can generate all your bills from a single screen. If you don’t finish in one session, ESILAW 2007 will save your place so you can return later.

What the company calls “client control,” you probably refer to as case or practice management. In this regard, ESI significantly beefed up its calendar in ESILAW 2007. At a glance, you can see your appointments and tasks. You can also create time entries from calendar items. Sharing calendars across your firm doesn’t require any additional software.

Like many programs, ESILAW 2007 integrates with Outlook so that you can associate email with clients and matters. But ESILAW 2007 takes this integration one step further with an option to add Quickfile4Outlook, an Outlook add-on that enables you to file incoming and outgoing email into client/matter folders. Quickfile4Outlook can also archive and print email by matter.

ESILAW 2007 is compatible with Windows Vista as well as Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Learn more about ESILAW 2007: www.esilaw.com.

April 13th, 2007 - ESI Software, Inc., a leading provider of time, billing, accounting, and client control software announced today that it's latest release, version 2007, is now shipping with a fully integrated calendaring system and optional Outlook mail management tools.

This latest version allows users to manage appointments and tasks, post time entries from within the calendar, produce calendar-based reports, share calendars, and more. Also included are features for direct integration with Quickfile for Microsoft Outlook™ e-mail management, a tool used to automatically file, print and lookup client e-mail using Outlook™ and ESILAW.

When asked about this latest release, VP of Operations Michael Saville commented, "These two new tools bring law firms a step closer to automating procedures and tasks within the firm. With a fully integrated calendaring system that ties directly into client and contact management our end users can automate more internal processes, further reducing time spent on trivial or redundant tasks."

ESILAW 2007.2 is now available for general release to US, Canadian and International law firms.

November 2nd, 2006 - ESI Software, Inc., a leading provider of time, billing, accounting, and client control software, released ESILAW 2007 today. This is the latest release in their legal software product line and this version offers a number of enhancements, including a simplified menu and interface that's extremely easy to use.

ESILAW is commited to providing the best toolset available to law firms with exceptionally easy-to-use, flexible, and scalable software. This latest release will appeal to firms of all sizes and help to further maximize their productivity by providing even more time-saving tools.

ESILAW 2007 is now available for general release to US, Canadian and International law firms.

November 30th, 2005 - ESI Software, Inc., a leading provider of time, billing, accounting, and client control software, today launched ESILAW 2006, the latest release in their legal software product line.

This latest version offers a number of significant enhancements, including a revolutionary new billing module designed to save law firms hundreds of hours in billing processing time.

"Ease-of-use, flexibility, and scalability are only a few of the reasons so many firms choose ESILAW as their time, billing, accounting and client control software solution. With our latest release, ESILAW 2006, which features a revolutionary new billing toolset, we fully expect that firms will be able to significantly increase productivity.", said Rick Bath, President of ESI Software. "Our focus is on providing law firms with toolsets that are flexible and easy to use, so they can focus more on the practice of law and less on the running of the firm. In 2006, we're confident we have delivered on that committment."

ESILAW 2006 is now available for general release to US, Canadian and International law firms.