Introduction (Chinese)
The Legal File Manager "LFM" is designed to support the business operations of law firm by helping staff to improve their efficiency, tidy records inventory and depositing of documents through a smart database. The business is operating smoothly.
To understand the concept of design systems, we must first understand daily operation of the law firm's business:
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Law is the basis and norms of many activities in society. Property transaction, dissolution of marriage and safeguarding the rights of individuals in legal proceedings require the services of professional in the legal field. Different types of business involve different processes and laws file. |
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Documents are important in the legal process. Law firms not only have to deposit the documents they receive into the relevant case files in a timely manner, but also obtain the documents they need promptly. Each document received or sent out needs to be clearly identified record status to avoid lossing. |
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There may be more than one participant in the same case, and participants may each engaged their solicitor representative to complete the proceedings on their own, while there is a lot of paperwork, information and comunication between parties and/or legal representative.
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Earning income with professional knowledge. The staff calculated the time and manpower required to complete the case as a fee criterion to calculate the fees payable by the client. This process of calculating charges involves a lot of complicated records and calculations and consumes manpower. |
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It may take years before the case can be closed, during which a great deal of documentary information needs to be saved and updated. It is also necessary to keep a record of the location of these documents so that they can be easily inspected. |
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Employees with different responsibilities may participate in different processes of the same case at the same time. If the documents reach their own hands, they may start to make the necessary processes and may be delayed. |
Customer expectations of the system
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Store case information required in each process, reduce manpower record error-prone opportunities effective database, save and update peer communication information, such as telephone number, address, fax number, for office staff to share and reduce duplication of copies work. |
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The system can process and calculate business-related data, saving cumbersome records of every process that has been processed and calculating manpower. |
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Can access information and complete the process, do not have to look at the document can also take the necessary steps to complete the operation, to reduce the emergence of contention for the same file file. |
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Effectively record the project documents and date, time and the location and location of the legal documents received and sent, and reduce the time spent on document loss and document identification Record the location of the case documents being processed and completed to facilitate the search And understand the status of the document. |
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Record the progress of the case and manage the work that the staff has completed and will accomplish. |
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The system can output some reports to remind individual employees of the work and deadlines to be completed. Shows the company's business progress. |