Step 9. Reporting law firm tasks

Export and Print reports within law firm workflow Law firm, as well as any other company, should track and assess individual and group work efficiency, productivity and check how well practical activities are coordinated with business plans. Direction of law firm needs to get regular reports from lawyers in order to control how well they work, how well financial issues are handled and how well they meet deadlines. VIP Task Manager allows making printable and exportable reports in order to analyze state of law firm affairs. Reports are the "snap-shots" of law firm Task Lists, Task Tree and Scheduler (Calendar mode).
Regular analysis of report will help to disclose issues and to identify progress in legal matters. For this purpose VIP Task Manager provides the possibility to use convenient and flexible filter panel to customize viewing of tasks within mentioned modes. These reports can be made periodically in order to analyze law firm's team performance and then reports can be stored on hard-drive, printed out and posted on company web-site. VIP Task Manager allows users to: make reports of law-team work performance and print them out save reports in MS Excel format and store them save reports in HTML format and post them on corporate web-site
Tracking Task History within law firm workflow Another helpful way to analyze workflow of law firm is to study history of tasks. Law specialists can easily track task history that can be printed out. Task history helps to get more clear and informative picture of accomplishments. VIP Task Manager is an effective task management groupware, it records the history of each task and allows users to view it in order to know which user made changes, what changes were applied to task and when they were made. VIP Task Manager also records date and time when task was created, started, completed and last modified.
Visualize report - Building charts within law firm workflow The best way to analyze law firm accomplishments in the context of comparison between planned and actual indicators is to build charts. Charts are essentially helpful when you need to define tendencies, shares etc.VIP Task Manager allows building various charts. When it is necessary to compare certain task attributes (for example estimated task duration vs. actual task duration) the best method to do this is to use column or bar diagram.
When it is required to assess the share of certain numeric task attribute value among other tasks (for example to disclose most profitable clients - to know amount of fees paid by each client within total amount) the natural method is to use Pie diagram. Line and Area diagram are used to define tendencies.
Step 1. Choosing law firm software Step 2. Organizing legal company staff Step 3. Setting law firm workflow Step 4. Customizing law firm tasks Step 5. Planning law firm tasks Step 6. Sharing law firm tasks Step 7. Documenting law firm tasks Step 8. Tracking law firm tasks >> Step 9. Reporting law firm tasks Step 10 Managing law firm KPI