PracticePanther

PracticePanther is an all-in-one legal practice management platform. It brings case management, calendaring, client communication, billing and payments into one system, so a law firm can run its daily work from a single place.

Matters and contacts are kept together with a dashboard showing case status. Workflows can trigger tasks, events and checklists, and documents are stored in the cloud and can be reached from anywhere.

For billing, the software offers time and expense tracking, invoicing, online payments through PantherPayments (credit card, ACH and eCheck) and embedded accounting including trust accounting and three-way trust reconciliation. The vendor states that firms get paid faster and save several hours of admin a week; these figures are the vendor's own claims.

• Legal CRM and automated client intake forms
• Secure client portal and native eSignature
• Two-way business texting and automatic reminders
• Batch document creation
• Tags and reporting, plus integrations with other software

A 7-day free trial is offered without a credit card. The payment tools described on the page are aimed mainly at the US market, so Ghanaian and other African firms should check payment and compliance support before relying on them.