Lawyers Service

Legal work is demanding and the future of other people can depend on the effectiveness and efficiency of those who work in the profession. Lawyer Service is an application designed to help organize the work of legal professionals, with various ways to organize cases, appointments, meetings and notes.

The program is simple to operate and very easy to navigate, it uses the Ribbon interface design, so its features and options are clearly displayed without being lost in menus and submenus. This design allows users to accurately access what they need, a useful choice when working with such important information.

The different tabs and features have an overlapping quality where information in one area will often be featured in another area. The multiple features are less about extra options and more about different choices in presentation. Users can view all their events and schedules on a single page, or view a break down of each day, complete with precise event times. The program itself does not have that many features, but its design gives a different impression.

The design of the application is one that clearly has been tailed for multiple programs, rather than specifically designed for a legal practitioner. The application features only a few real modes, the interactive calendar that can store events and appointments, plus a place to save custom text documents and organize them via cases. The rest of the features are just the ability to backup data and various presentation and management options.

This gives the impression that the application is just a one-stop, comprehensive tool for basic organization and provides no real depth. Specific areas for client profiles, court locations, legal materials, evidence logs etc are all missing. Any legal professional looking for an item specifically tailored to their work will be disappointed and shouldn’t expect more than just a text editor and custom calendar rolled into one program.

The application is fine for basic organization, but users could also get the same results from a calendar application and a well organized desktop of text files. Legal Service’s claim to be specifically for the legal professionals is not entirely accurate, but the application does serve as a useful tool for those who don’t like using several different applications.