Removing Unwanted Templates from PCLaw

PCLaw ships with a large number of bill templates. Many of these are for electronic billing in one LEDES format or another. Most firms do not use any of these and it is simply an annoyance to have to scroll through them all the time.  Fortunately, there is a simple lo-tech solution.

Using Windows explorer, go into the PCLaw program directory on the server, then to the Data | Statdata folder.  Create a new subfolder called “unused bill templates” or some such. If you then click on the “Type” column in the Statdata folder, it will sort your files by type. PCLaw bill templates all have an *.rbf extension. You can then select and move the *.rbf files that you are not using to the “unused” folder. You might want to be conservative and keep many of the basic templates - Detail, Sdetail, Generic, Interest, etc. in the event you need them. If you move one you need by mistake you can always move it back.

A similar strategy works for other templates that you may not use - cost recovery (*.crl format) for example, or custom tabs (*.ctl format).

The only drawback to this scheme is that it requires ongoing maintenance, since every time you update PCLaw to a new build, it will repopulate all the templates and you have to do it over again.