Law firms provide legal services to individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments

The scope of their work can vary depending on the size and specialization of the firm, but here are some common activities and services provided by law firms:

1. Legal Advice and Counseling: Lawyers in law firms offer legal advice and guidance to clients on a wide range of issues, including business matters, personal affairs, litigation, and regulatory compliance. They assess the legal implications of various actions and help clients understand their rights, obligations, and potential risks.
2. Transactional Services: Law firms assist clients with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, agreements, and other legal documents. This includes business contracts, real estate transactions, employment agreements, leases, and intellectual property agreements.
3. Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Law firms represent clients in court proceedings, arbitration, mediation, and other forms of dispute resolution. They handle civil litigation, criminal defense, family law matters, employment disputes, intellectual property disputes, and other legal conflicts.
4. Corporate and Commercial Law: Law firms advise businesses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, corporate finance, and other corporate legal matters. They assist with entity formation, corporate structuring, compliance with regulatory requirements, and transactions involving the buying or selling of businesses.
5. Real Estate Law: Law firms provide legal services related to real estate transactions, including property sales and purchases, leasing agreements, zoning and land use issues, property development, and real estate financing.
6. Intellectual Property Law: Law firms assist clients with protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. They help clients register their intellectual property, enforce their rights against infringement, and defend against claims of infringement by others.
7. Employment Law: Law firms advise employers and employees on matters related to employment law, including employment contracts, workplace discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour disputes, and compliance with labor laws and regulations.
8. Tax Law: Law firms offer tax planning and advisory services to individuals, businesses, and organizations. They help clients minimize their tax liabilities, comply with tax laws and regulations, resolve tax disputes with government authorities, and plan for tax-efficient business transactions.
9. Estate Planning and Probate: Law firms assist clients with estate planning, including the drafting of wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. They help clients plan for the distribution of their assets upon death and navigate the probate process to settle estates and administer trusts.
10. Regulatory Compliance and Government Relations: Law firms advise clients on regulatory compliance matters and represent them in dealings with government agencies and regulatory bodies. They help clients understand and comply with applicable laws, regulations, and licensing requirements in their industries.

Overall, law firms play a vital role in providing legal services and helping clients navigate the complexities of the legal system to achieve their objectives and protect their interests.Lawyer firms

Odoo setup is for lawyers firms (request a demo 👇)

They represent their clients and defend their interest during juridical procedures. Lawyers have open / public consultations for people to reach out and get advice on their situation.

When a case he opened and a contract is signed between them and their clients, they will typically execute a certain amount of tasks related to the case, and invoice their services on a given rate.

Business Flows

Flow 1: Get a legal appointment on the website with Odoo

On the Website:

1. Visit the Appointment page where the open consultations slots for all the lawyers are accessible.
2. Select the domain, then the lawyer, and select an available slot.

In the Backend:

1. Check the created appointment.
2. Check the user agenda, a meeting is created.

Flow 2: Open a new file, start registering Timesheets in Odoo

From the Sales app:

1. Create a Sale Order using the Standard Lawyer service Quotation template.
2. Complete the Customer information.
3. Add another Sale Order line using the Administration fees product.
4. Confirm the Sale Order which will create the related Project and Tasks

Open the related Project:

1. Assign the responsible user.
2. Look at the available tasks, select the Lawyer Services task.
3. Put it In Progress, open it.
4. Go in the Timesheets tab, register a new Timesheet manually.

Open the Timesheet app:

1. Use the quick Timesheet functionality to start counting time on the Lawyer Services Task of the project.
2. Add a new line to register a new Timesheet on the Administration Task of the project manually.

Flow 3: Create an invoice of

From the Sales app:

1. Select the project SO.
2. Input the amount of delivered dactylography pages and travel expenses incurred.
3. Create a Regular Invoice.

Odoo modules that will help you manage your Law firm

• Knowledge (knowledge)
• Project (project)
• Sales (sale_management)
• Website (website)
• Discuss (mail)
• Documents (documents)
• Planning (planning)
• Employees (hr)
• Invoicing (account)
• Timesheets (timesheet_grid)
• Appointments (appointment)
• Calendar (calendar)

Book #free introductory call Schedule an appointment This will let us know better specifics of your business needs.