Key features of the software:

1. Extensive free User Manual.  Check it out!
2. Prints case document listings and indexes of your case.
3. Very useful for:
   • Tracking billable hours to clients.  Has a built in client timer useful for attorneys and paralegals to keep track time spent on each case they are managing.  This allows you to precisely compute how how much to sue the other side for when you pursue legal fees against them for their incompetence
   • Maintaining your case journal and phone log (has a place to write your journal).
   • Simplifying compliance with local court rules and legal process.
   • Tracking and annotating the court docket.
   • Managing legal discovery such as admissions, requests for the production of documents (RFPD), and interrogatories.
   • Tracking witnesses, evidence, and exhibits.
   • Organizing and maintaining your client and legal records.
   • Maintaining your document log, where you serialize all correspondence with the Opposing Party.
   • Producing labels for and organizing legal folders.
   • Finding internet legal resources
   • Maintaining an archive of legal forms you are using to litigate against the other side, so you can reuse the forms again later.
4. Very easy to use.  Designed for the layman with few computer skills. 
5. Low in cost.  Similar software programs cost MUCH more and are not useful for administrative or litigation management.
6. Certified virus and copy protection and spyware free.  No adds or banners to harass you and the software doesn't snoop on you or reveal your private information to third parties or force you to give up your privacy to register it.
7. Complete error-handling with copious feedback if you make a mistake.
8. Imports data from older versions when you upgrade so you don't have to reenter your data every time you upgrade.  Your investment in using the software and your information are safe.
9. Extensive security system for control of confidential and privileged client information:
   • Access to specific screens can be controlled on a per user or per group basis.
   • Access log records all database accesses.
   • Each screen has up to five levels of security access, and each type of access can be assigned per user or group.
   • Database transactions log records all changes to information in the database in order to pinpoint people performing unauthorized changes to specific data.
10. Designed for multi-user shared network use. 
    • This allows a whole law office to standardize on the use of FLA and to centralize all client and case information, and yet protect it so that only attorneys working on a specific case can see case or client information.
    • Supports multiple sites and database replication between sites.
    • Automatically handles record locking and conflicts.
11. Some of the screens included in this software are:
    • Jurisdictions- the data appearing in our SEDM Jurisdictions Database, Litigation Tool #09.003, is included in this tool to make finding law and research sources on any subject a snap.
    • Clients
    • Client summary
    • Court cases
    • Points and authorities
    • Points of contact
    • Legal forms and templates
    • Glossary
    • Acronyms
    • MSA clauses (Marital Settlement Agreement clauses, which are clauses that Family Law attorneys use to prepare Marital Settlement Agreements)
    • Legal Information sources
    • Lawyers
    • Firm information (information about the law firm or individual using the database)
    • Internet Yellow Pages
    • Caseload summary (lists all active cases, if you are fighting several entities within the government)
    • Quotations
    • Glossary
    • Acronyms
12. Encrypted database.  Even if the government or your opponent get a copy of the software, they won't be able to extract ANY data without knowing your password.

FLA was developed over a period of two years after reviewing the features of several similar commercial and professional products, including the following in order to gather requirements for how it should function:

1. Smart Attorney
2. Quicken Family Lawyer
3. ProLAW
4. PC Law

The software has been beta tested and used professionally by members of this ministry as well as at least two family law attorney's offices, so it is relatively bullet proof.  It was developed originally to automate the management of a pro per divorce case but it eventually was used professionally by several attorneys and they said they liked it.  Much of what we learned about law and the operation of small law offices we owe to the development of this software as we tried to tailor it to meet the needs expressed to us directly by family law attorneys.  Using this software to handle the paralegal aspects of your case by yourself, in tandem with the Association of Counsel (OFFSITE LINK) form, can save individuals who have to litigate against the government  TONS of money because it empowers them to handle most paralegal aspects of their case themselves instead of paying an expensive attorney to handle every minute detail. 

Not even most attorneys, it turns out, handle the vast majority of their case.  They rely heavily on the services of a resident paralegal person, who doesn't even need a license or any professional training, it turns out.  This software allows you to fill the role of a paralegal much more effectively, it turns out, than even most paralegals!  FLA instead keeps you very engaged with your case and handling most of the administrative and paralegal matters easily yourself.  If you hire an attorney as co-counsel or coach, it also allows the attorney to stay focused on what you pay him to worry about: strategy and tactics and presentation to the court, instead of getting wrapped up in mechanics, legal research, and the day to day "administrivia" (as we call it) of your case.  You can rest assured that even most small law offices, based on actual first hand experience watching them operate ourself, aren't as effective and organized as this software program can make you, so you will have a BIG advantage over the Dept. of Justice of both the United States and your state!

Below are some screen shots from the software: