Legal Case Management

skip For some time now, the Legal case management software (LCM) has not been maintained. If anyone is interested in taking over the development, please contact mathieu@bidon.ca.
For those searching for alternatives to LCM, consider CiviCRM. When used in combination with Drupal, it provides a more complete framework for case management.

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skip Allows to change back to a previous case stage. Added a history of the stage changes in the case info panel. Infamous stage change bug has been fixed. Fixed a few MSIE keyword bugs. Added option to display currencies in Indian notation. Fixed problems with the way currencies in general are displayed. Updated italian, german and french translations. Many other bugs fixed.

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A preliminary version of a LCM connector now allows CK-ERP to operate within a LCM environment. CK-ERP is an open source accounting/MRP/ERP/CRM system that runs on top of multiple middlewares. It comprises 22 modules - Administration, i18n, Contact Management, Customer Relationship, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, MRP, Warehouse, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, HR, Staff Self Service and Payroll.

A demo of (LCM 0.7.2b + CK-ERP) is available at, http://ck-erp.org/lcm/.

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skip LCM and other software solutions for legal case management have been the topic of an article by Shaun Drummond in the Lawyers Weekly newspaper in Australia: "Controlling your practices", June 18, 2007).

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skip Some offices need to generate a case ID automatically using a set of predetermined criteria. For example: it may be WP-420123 to show that the case is of type "WP", or "420123/2007" to show that it is a case from 2007. There is a way in LCM to create a custom function which will generate this case ID.

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skip LCM already had a way to format currency so that it is "1,000,000.00" in English, or "1 000 000,00" in French, but there was no way to support other numbering systems, such as the Indian numbering system, which would print the same number in the form "1,00,00,00.00".

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skip Minor bugfix release which fixes the "sum billed" format error (if the field is active), as well as the "case notes" being lost after edit.

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The Legal Case Management software (LCM) may emit a panic or error message when uploading a large document (attach file) to a case, client or organisation.

To fix the problem, you must modify the following PHP parameters. You may also need to modify an LCM configuration variable.

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