Contract Attorneys


Purpose: Allows an agency to track payments to contract attorneys on individual cases. Allocations per case can be made, and payment information entered on timeslips that store an invoice number, check number, rate, amount, etc.

Cost: $3,500.00 one-time setup fee. $100/month maintenance. 

Assigning Cases to the "Contract Attorney" Program

Contract attorney information will only appear for cases assigned to the "Contract Attorney" program. When a case is being assigned to that program, additional fields regarding an initial allocation are displayed. In this example, the Bankruptcy problem code has been configured with a default allocation that the user can change:

Assigning Users to Contract Attorney Cases

A timeslip can be recorded for a contract attorney on a case without that user being assigned to the case. However, having the user assigned to the case makes user selection easier. An agency may also want to track the assignments themselves, independent of the timeslips.


Recording Time for a Contract Attorney

Pro bono timeslips on cases assigned to the Contract program include a "Contract Attorney" Yes/No field. If the user entering the timeslip selects Yes, several additional fields appear:

Contract Attorney Information on Cases

Contract attorney cases may have an action menu "Add/Edit Contract Information" link (for users with appropriate permission). The link displays a page with any existing contract attorney records entered on the case and fields for allocation amounts.

Site administrators: This link is displayed by a side/action element called "Add/Edit Contract Information".

Viewing Contract Attorney Information for Multiple Cases

Users with the appropriate permission will see a "Contract Attorney Report" link in the Actions menu of the main Timekeeping page. This link displays a filterable list of cases assigned to the Contract program:

Administrator Setup


User Role Permission

Give the "Edit Contract Attorney Information" to each role that needs to enter this information. The contract attorney users do not need this permission.

Users

Contract attorneys are pro bono users, and therefore need the Advocate/User Type "Pro Bono Advocate". Administrators set the type on each user's profile page. See: User Accounts


Edit Contract Attorney Settings

The Admin > Contract Attorney Settings page allows administrators to set a default hourly rate, default base allocation, and set a base allocation for each problem code. The default base allocation is how much money is allocated per case by default.  This allocation can be adjusted for specific problem codes.

Edit Lookups

  • Advocate Type - An optional "Contract Attorney" value.

  • Assignment Type - An optional "Contract Attorney" value.

  • Programs - The system "Contract " lookup value must be active (LegalServer staff enable this).


Additional Setup

  • Add the Contract Attorney block to the Pro Bono Advocate Case Timeslip.

  • Add the Add/Edit Contract Information element to the Actions menu.

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