Additional Modules

The following modules can be offered in a mix-and-match setting.

Civil Matters Whether a state agency or employee is the plaintiff or the defendant, this system handles all aspects of civil litigation. From multi-party class actions claims to school board issues, this system will handle them all including investigation, plea bargaining and full litigation. You set up your own case types to organize, review and highlight the work you are doing today.

Legislative Review You may be asked to review proposed and pending legislation and offer legal opinions. This module tracks the work, the time commitments and the results. You can find a piece of legislation easily by things like the bill number (e.g.SB104) or by the sponsor, or by the description of the bill. All drafts of all documents can be attached to the bill and events showing past and future activities associated with the legislation.

Opinions Whether it is an employee with a quick question, or a full written analysis, all the opinion and assistance requests made to the various departments are easily recorded, along with document drafts, notes associated parties and due dates.

Personnel From Title VII issues to straight complaints and employee needs, this module offers special handling for these sensitive issues.

Workers' Compensation Quick and effective handling of these claims pay off. You can see the overall claim picture and focus in on problems early in the process. Graphs that show injury patterns and reports sorting the cases all can help with an issue that may be rare, but is very important.

Training Legal departments are often called upon to offer training on legal and ethical issues. Whether you are offering a standard course or a custom class, or even a public speech, this module helps you track all that activity from scheduling to preparation.

Hotline If the department takes calls or emails directly from the public, this module will handle those calls and help you respond quickly and effectively while recording all call activity. For any caller, as soon as they are identified, one keystroke shows all the other times they have called and what those conversations were about - this can have a tremendous impact on the perception of service your office provides. Reports graphs and views give management valuable insight into incoming call activity. It is particularly helpful for special hotlines. Calls with substance can be turned into a case quickly and easily, preserving all the information taken to date.

FOIA Requests One or more departments may have to pass judgment on the validity of Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act requests and determine the degree to which an organization should reply. This module tracks requests, work done on requests and results. Extensive reporting shows the flow of this important aspect of legal advisory services.

Criminal Referrals From simple perjury to major fraud, LegalEdge is well established in management of criminal cases of all kinds.

Forfeiture In Rem, In Personam or stipulated forfeitures are easily tracked, forfeited properties are clearly identified and tracked.

False Claims Act Violations of this Act including the sensitive qui tam cases makes it easier to meet regulatory responsibilities and respond quickly.

Consumer The most comprehensive consumer product available today tracks and classifies every complaint, follows the mediation process between citizen and vendor, automatically produces correspondence and complies statistics such as the amount of money recovered for citizens in any time period. Basic complaints, consumer litigation, multi-state litigation and amicus briefs are all tracked with special handling. This module also manages a Buyer Beware program to gain leverage with businesses and inform consumers about business history.

Utilities Rate Advocacy Whether this is a claim about telephone or water service or a brief-intensive rate hike prevention action, this module combines some of the aspects of consumer litigation with document-intensive litigation features to make this department easier to manage.

Charities Registration Registration and performance of charities, telephone solicitors and telephone sales persons are clearly and easily tracked. You can, with a couple of keystrokes find out the percent of funds that a specific charity devotes to overhead vs. the cause - this information is taken directly from tax returns. Fundraising program and campaign reports are also tracked to monitor fundraising activity. When a citizen calls your office asking if they should invest in a charity, you can give them clear, objective information to guide their donation decisions.

1983 Claims Special handling is afforded to claims of police brutality issues, and other civil rights violations whether the victim is in custody or not.

Inmate Claims Agencies often handle tort claims by prisoners which are submitted to a legislative entity such as a Claims Commission. This module will show you how many other claims an inmate has made as soon as you call up any claim.

Medicaid Fraud Abuse of children and vulnerable adults in long term care facilities, misuse of patient funds, or fraudulent claims are all included here. Preliminary investigations are handled separately from full-blown cases at the discretion of management.

Juvenile Where the Attorney General is involved in the disposition of juvenile matters, this module provides special tracking for this type of enforcement. Age, guardianship, juvenile statutory status and diversion programs are all very much in play for this special kind of matter.

Death Penalty A matter is handled differently after a death sentence. This module follows the case through as many levels of appeal as the government offers, tracking all appropriate dates and information. All post-conviction relief actions are shown in chronology.

Investigations If you have a separate investigative function, this module will help you by defining "Investigative Tasks" that are assigned and linked to a case. You can check on the completion status of a task, or all the tasks for a case or investigator. We make it as easy as possible for field investigators to report their results. This module also comes with strong Chain of Custody tracking for evidence.

Civil Rights If you take Civil Rights complaints directly from the public, this gives you an invaluable tool to track these complaints and pursue their resolution.

Appeals We have products for both Prosecution and Defense Appeals cases. Special features such as reports by supervisor and responsible attorney and batch extension requests make this specialized work easier to accomplish and to manage.

Bad Check and Marker Collection System This product handles collection on worthless checks and restitution payments to merchants. Each check has a face value, fine amount and collection fee amount. Fines and fees are set (by you) with parameters in your system and are collected in the order that your state law dictates. The system creates and sends two dunning notices and then can create an arrest warrant. Every day, you just print all first and second notices and warrants due, it's all set up for you. You set the times between the notices.

Payments can be taken directly from walk-ups; you can review with the defendant the amount they owe and how much they will be paying. If payments are partial, the system automatically applies the payment to the overall debt in the correct order. When you take payment, a receipt is automatically produced. At the beginning of the month, one easy step calculates all payments due to merchants, adjusts all amounts and prints the checks. You can also pay one or more vendors on demand at any time.

At any point in time, you can view the amount of money in escrow. Every transaction is recorded in an audit trail, so you can produce reports for auditors on demand. Full payable and receivable reports can be printed at any time for any date range, and your merchants can have meaningful updates on check activity to augment your service.

One of the best things about the Bad Check and Marker Collection System is that it is fully integrated with the rest of the case management system. As soon as a bad check record is entered, the system automatically creates a "prior" record for that check that is kept updated to reflect payment status and is attached to the information about the person. This lets you see bad check activity in full context with other criminal activity directly from the person's record. The Bad Check and Marker Collection System™ uses the same database of people that the rest of the system uses.

This software can help you easily manage your check collection business and build that business without adding staff.

Modules that are in our basic criminal systems may also be of interest, such as Child Abuse, DUI and Traffic as well as a module that imports cases through email from law enforcement agencies called our Police Data Import.

Some other software that has application across the modules includes:

Diversion Programs - We track all programs and show the diversion participation of any individual.

Clinical Tests and Forensic Evidence - This allows you to track detail of forensic evidence such as autopsy, DNA, HIV, IQ, proficiency, medical and other clinical tests.

Custody History - for some areas, a full background of custody experiences is helpful.

Gangs - Burgeoning gang problems can have considerable social impact and visibility to the Attorney General's constituency. This program monitors gangs, their members, their history and their territory, this information is easily cross referenced while in cases where gang members are involved.

Time/Billing - whether or not you bill dollar amounts, this lets you report, capture and view time records in a variety of ways.

Grand Jury - If you are involved in running a Grand Jury, this will track not only the jury, but each charge against each defendant, its Grand Jury docket number and its disposition. It includes reports that are very helpful in presenting to the jury.

And of course all these modules go on top of the powerful LegalEdge software base:

Unlimited Cases
Unlimited Parties per Case
Unlimited Issues per Party per case
Unlimited ID numbers and attributes associated with a person that can be used to find the person.
Unlimited ID numbers associated with a case which can be used to find the case. Free-flowing cross referencing
User-defined tables
Word processing interface to merge YOUR forms and letters with database information. From Subpoenas to correspondence to file folder labels, this part of your job was never easier.
Easy linking of documents, images and other evidence to matters and people. View your documents without leaving LegalEdge.
Association of Teams with matters
Full Calendaring and Docketing
Over 100 standard reports, graphs and on-line views
Launch External Applications from a button in LegalEdge
Flexible Platform: Access™, Oracle™, SQL Server™, Sybase™, Informix™
And much, much more.