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Track vacation time and absence due to illness

Amicus can help you keep track of the time you are absent due to vacation or illness. For your convenience, two Non-Billable files are automatically created for each new Firm Member:

Personal - Vacation - <Firm Member' Full Name>
Personal - Illness - <Firm Member's Full Name>

You can add Notes, Communications, Events, Documents, etc. to these files in order to organize your vacation requests, medical appointments, and other information.

Special Billing Categories are assigned to these files:

Vacation - Non Billable is assigned to the Personal-Vacation File.
Personal - Non Billable is assigned to the Personal-Illness File.

If you create Time Entries using these Billing Categories, the time will be added to the Non-billable Hours totals in your Statistics view of the Time module. In particular, it will add vacation time to the Vacation Days total. For more information, see Getting performance statistics and Keeping track of vacation time or absence due to illness.

If you have already been assigned to files for this purpose by your firm's accounting program, you will want to open the files supplied in Amicus and change the details to match those you use now. For example, you will need to edit information in the fields that are used as the basis for matching Amicus Files with records in your accounting program (e.g. Matter ID and Client ID if you use PCLaw). You can change the names of these files if you wish.