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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

I like that it syncs with my Outlook so I have my calendar on my phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Other than the price, there is nothing I don't like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

We like having our calendar in one place for everyone to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amicus Attorney by CARET Overview

What is Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Amicus Attorney is an intuitive case management solution that tracks and invoices billable time, automates important documents, and provides easy access to all your clients and case files. Work from your desktop or in the private cloud while integrating with QuickBooks and other applications.

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Product Description

Amicus Premium 2015 offers superior functionality and is powerful, flexible and scalable for firms of all sizes.

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Designed to maximize your billable opportunities while you do what you do best: practice law. Amicus Attorney can drive efficiency and raise your profits while growing your practice. Empower your practice with case management software built by lawyers for lawyers.


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CARET
Year Founded
1983
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San Diego, CA
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345 employees on LinkedIn®
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CARET leverages the prowess of advanced and secure practice management systems and seamless payment processing to empower legal and accounting firms, professionals, and their clientele to refocus their expertise on what truly matters.


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2.5 out of 5
"Amicus review"
I liked the ease of use. Very easy to navigate
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5.0 out of 5
"Great docketing program."
The ease of creating customized reports and the amount of information you can input.
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2.5 out of 5
"We used Amicus Attorney for years. It has some very good functionality, but is a resource burden"
Generating reports was very helpful. It is a good place to keep all contacts.
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Amicus Attorney by CARET Media

Amicus Attorney by CARET Demo - Amicus Attorney Dashboard
Dashboards collect, organize, and display information from your cases that is most important to you. Never wonder what’s new, what’s due, and what’s next. Our dashboards give you unprecedented visibility into your practice and your firm’s financial health.
Amicus Attorney by CARET Demo - Amicus Attorney Billing
Time Entry Assistant shows you all your activities where no time entry has been recorded, so you can take every unexpected client call and email to the bank. If you need to add a task to the billing record, you can do that, too.
Amicus Attorney by CARET Demo - Amicus Attorney Client File
micus makes all your client files instantly accessible to everyone on your team. Plus, it acts as your team’s administrative assistant, keeping tasks and deadlines organized.
Amicus Attorney by CARET Demo - Amicus Attorney Client Financial and Billing Profile
Built-in accounting tools, you can generate reports and capture accounts within a few clicks. Process all types of credit cards, e-Checks, with a rapid processing time and a simple fixed rate.
Amicus Attorney by CARET Demo - Amicus Attorney Attorney Dashboard
The Amicus Cloud version makes all your files and all the file content instantly accessible, better organized, and much easier to use.
Amicus Attorney by CARET Demo - Amicus Attorney Email
Your email appears right inside the Amicus Cloud version. Access your inbox, sent mail, saved folders, everything. Send and receive your emails and do time entries with a single click.
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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

I liked the ease of use. Very easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

There was function for document mgmgt. We had to separate places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

I liked the case status and documenting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Not very much. Things do not work as promised and it takes forever for Amicus help to get a problem situated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

We do not get notifications when clients pay. We are having trouble after the update with one user generating documents. Amicus help told us that it was our version of Word, but all other users have the same version of Word and are able to generate documents. This is normal in the Amicus help blame game, it is never their fault, and they will spend more time trying to blame you for the problem than trying to fix the problem. This is also not cloud-based which can be a pain when working remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amicus Attorney by CARET:

Look at other offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to streamline our case steps (by using precedents to set to dos) so everyone is aware of tasks related to the file. This has allowed us to manage the file much better and get judgment a lot quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Did well with file and contact management. The old 'sticky note' function was also nice to send quick notes to others in the office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Does not integrate well with billing and could not function on its own for billing. It also did not function well with our cloud-based server envirnment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amicus Attorney by CARET:

Before choosing Amicus, I would look at the other options to see if any work better for you. We used Amicus for 20 years and it just did not keep up with its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was no longer serving our best needs as it did not integrate well with billing or our cloud-based servers. We switched to Clio instead which fits our needs better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Ability to keep all related documents together, client portal, integrated email, billing, contacts, phone messaging, and perform task tracking. In general, the support team has been attentive and professional. I like the ability to chat with support personnel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

1. Inability to selectively choose which of multiple clients can see a file via client portal when there are more than one client assigned to a file. E.g. when setting up multiple estate documents for a family, we want to make all relevant estate documents available to parents via the client portal, and only selected documents available to each child via the client portal. Today only the "client" role can see specified documents once individual is given client portal access.

2. Inability to have subfolders within a folder within documents

3. Inability to assign status to files. For instance, marking a document as draft, approved, in process.... and to see and sort on its status when opening documents window would be very helpful for managing workflow

4. File terminology confusing as a client's a file and a document within that file are both called "file" -- makes discussion of either difficult.

5. Cannot print pdf's directly from the application--application downloads them and then one has to go through another series of print clicks to get the document printed.

6. Recently, I cannot even view pdf files when I select "View" - the application downloads the file and I need to use identify and then use another application to open and read it.

7. At various times of the day, the application slows to a crawl. It is sometimes faster to close the application and reopen it than wait for an operation to complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amicus Attorney by CARET:

see first question. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Client interactions and communication tracking, document management, billing, task management, calendaring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

It gave the firm a place to put client contact information and worked with calendars. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

It was not very intuitive. Hard to use. It took me time to learn about how to add information to client profile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Amicus works well enough as a place to store information (e.g. client information) but it didn't integrate well with other software and it was clunky (hard to use) and took a lot of training to understand. Also, very American and not great for Canadian users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

I haven't used Amicus in some years now so I'm not sure of the changes they made to benefit me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Generating reports was very helpful. It is a good place to keep all contacts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Amicus was on our on-prem server, and used a ton of resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amicus Attorney by CARET:

Check into the cloud based application. It was new when we stopped using it. It may have developed a lot by now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

it is a good repository for all contacts and clients. The reporting functionality is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

It was user-friendly and easy to learn and to teach to new employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

If this is just for Amicus Attorney 2015 Premium, then I disliked that we needed a separate accounting software which our rep didn't tell us when signing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amicus Attorney by CARET:

If you use separate accounting software owned by Abacus, make sure they're not going to discontinue service for it before only signing up for Amicus Attorney. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

We stopped using it in part because our rep didn't tell us that our accounting software wouldn't be supported before signing. Unacceptable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Nothing comes to mind. This system is inadequate for our needs and the support team took more than a year to respond to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

We have used the system for some time but have used workarounds to solve issues that we encountered. However, although the system is antiquated, we have been loyal customers for many years and wanted to try and see if we would maximize our usage. So, following our most recent contract renewal we signed up for more training, submitted user suggestions, communicated with tech support, and requested information from our account representative. We waited more than a year for a response and our tech issues and suggestions remain unresolved today. They have been unsupportive and the system is not sufficient for what our firm requires. I would not recommend this software to anyone! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

There have been no benefits. As a result of the inadequacies in the software we have stopped using it for anything substantive in our office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

the organization of the system. the ability to "add to file" or associate to file is the best feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

I dislike that it is not really able to personalize that my files are plaintiff. it does not write form letters as case advantage does Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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speed. ease of forwarding multiple emails and once. letter options templates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

Truly the delay is difficult, it has often frozen on me and affects my paralegals ability to work and access files... the notes section does not date entries you have to add dates yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Amicus is relatively intuitive and straightforward for my staff and new hires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amicus Attorney by CARET?

Constant pop up of tool bar I never use which I can't disable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amicus Attorney by CARET solving and how is that benefiting you?

We keep constant track of developments on files in Amicus so that all staff can refer to current matters. Save untold hours digging into files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.