PCLaw: Using the Time Calendar Feature
PCLaw by LexisNexis is a versatile, all-in-one time tracking, cost tracking, billing and accounting, practice management program that gives its users several ways to enter their time and fees. One recent feature is utilizing the Time Calendar. Using this allows...
Sage 50 Payroll Tax Forms Update
All Sage 50 customers should have received a recent notification, through the "Services /Check for Updates" menu in Sage 50, that a new Payroll update (released in October 2017) is available. What makes this update especially noteworthy is that, beyond a change to...
ALERT: ABA offers FREE WEBINAR on TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCE
In 2012, the American Bar Association formally approved a change to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make it clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its practice, but also in technology. Since then, 28 states have adopted the...
Moving to the Cloud? Make Sure It’s the Right One
Recently, LexisNexis announced the selection of an “authorized hosting provider” for their Time Matters and PCLaw software applications. This continues a trend we’ve seen in the software industry: the move of traditional, so-called “legacy” software to hosting...
Period End Closing in Sage 50: A 7-Point Checklist
There is no formal period end closing in Sage 50 within an open fiscal year. There are, however, several important steps that we recommend all users should complete before issuing and filing financial statements for that period. Proper period end closing procedures...
Disaster Preparation: Are You Ready?
Hurricanes. Floods. Wildfires. Recent headlines of natural disasters overwhelm us. Unfortunately, some of our clients have been affected by these. One client of ours called it “a one-two punch: Irma ripped off the roof [of their office suite] and Maria flooded...
You Talkin’ to Me? Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Voice Activated AI
Amazon sold millons of its Echo devices -Dot, Tap, Show, etc. – in 2016, and has so far captured about 70% of the market in consumer-oriented Voice Activated AI (Artificial Intelligence). According to an article by Nick Wingfield in the August 30 edition of the New...
There’s Gold in your Current Software
Is your inbox full of marketing pitches urging you to switch to new software? Sometimes it pays to switch, and sometimes not. Since moving to new software can be expensive and disruptive, often the answer is to make better use of the software you already have. Here...
NetDocuments and ndOffice 2.1
Current NetDocuments users know about the excellent, tight integration between this world-class document management system and Microsoft Office (and Adobe). What you may not know is that a new version recently came out, with some excellent new options and features. ...
Can Your Email Habits Get You Into Trouble?
Over the past couple of decades, email has become so commonplace that it is the automatic “go-to” for public and private sector communications. But lately, it seems that email has been in the news in a major way, to the point where intercepted or leaked email messages...