• Winlaw applications are templates for repetitive tasks done by a firm which include producing documents and performing tasks or events. You deal with all aspects of your applications in English. You can print your applications structure in English text.
• Applications consist of events and stages.
• Events are tasks with due dates, a person responsible,  a task type, and relationships with a parent or child events.
• Stages are places to keep an application's document templates.
• Document templates are recipes for producing your firm's production documents.
• Document templates contain bookmarks into which Winlaw data and your system data is put when a production document is made from the template.

Data

• Winlaw data is one of Site data Client data, or Application/Matter data, all of which you define in English. 
• Site data is information about your firm
• Client data is general information about a client.
• Application/Matter data is client data related to the application but not general enough to be applicable to other applications.

• Your system data is any data on your network files which can be inserted into an MS Word document.
• Such data includes ODBC data base information (most major databases support ODBC) , MS Excel spreadsheets, MS Access data, MS Project files, graphics and other data objects.

          Document Production

• Is as easy as pressing a button

         Reports

• Winlaw has textual and graphical reports.

          Benefits

• Reduce the cost of producing and tracking documents
• Increase the quality of work on client matters
• Increase management visibilty into your firm's activity
• Automate workflow
• Track events due and overdue by client, matter and staff member
• Comply with ISO90000 requirements
• More benefits

Application: An template that is used repeatedly to create client-matters. It is like a recipe from which a client-matter is constructed. It consists of events and stages with documents.

Bookmark: In MS Word, you can select an area of a document and assign it a name. The name and its associated area is called a bookmark. The bookmark can be used to refer to a specific place in a document. Winlaw uses bookmarks to carry out special actions at their associated locations.

Client: A person or organisation for whom your firm performs services. Information about clients are stored in the client data base.

Client-matter: A project or work package you perform for a client.

Document template: An MS Word document, containing a recipe from which client or production document is made. Here is an example of a line from a document template:

Event: A task or activity important enough to record as done or not done. For example, in an application involving a client purchasing a building, one event might be ensuring the vendors clear title to the building. The event might be labeled "Title search." An event which might follow a title search is "Bill client for title search." The making of a document can be an event.

Primary event: Events may be related to each other. A primary event has other events following or preceding it. Its date required is set independent of other events. An event dependent on a primary event is its secondary event. When a primary event's due date is changed, its secondary events' due dates are changed automatically.

Production document: A document template that has been filled with client and client-matter data. It is usually stored in a client-matter directory.

Secondary event: A secondary event's date required is set relative to its primary event. If you define primary and secondary events in an application, then each secondary event has a date required which is so many calendar or working days before or after its primary parent.

Site Data: Information about the site at which you are using Winlaw such as your firm's location, telephone and fax numbers, email address, WEB address, PO Box or DX code. Stage: A name used to group a collection of documents which need to be produced for a client-matter. Stages are attached to applications. Documents are attached to stages.