What’s New With Timeslips
After a two-year hiatus, Timeslips consultants welcomed the opportunity to meet with management at a Timeslips Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on May 15th & 16th. During those two days, participants learned what we have with the present product and what we can...
ABA Ethics Opinion 99-413 Has Been Updated
You need to know this stuff! ABA Ethics Opinion 99-413 was issued in 1999. We are now in 2017 and the rules have changed. In general, the new Opinion 99-477 still allows lawyers to use unencrypted email when communicating routinely with clients. Law Firms are...
Optical Character Recognition Helps Find Hidden Data in Your Documents
For most law firms, files and documents are at the center of all work the firm performs. You are wasting valuable time on a daily basis if you can't find the right file exactly when you need it via search tools. A good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system can...
Getting New (and Existing) Employees Off on the Right Foot
Recently an article posted by ADP contained eight suggestions for getting new employees acclimated into a firm’s culture. Item #6 promoted the importance of training. At Crosspointe, we’re all for that! Our consultants are often contacted only when software programs,...
Implementing a Virtual Law Firm
Are you considering implementing a Virtual Law Firm? Moving all of your data and your applications to the Cloud will help you accomplish that. But what does "a Virtual Law Firm" even mean? Is there a difference between the Cloud approach and a...
Review: ndSync for NetDocuments
Document management systems are great – they keep us organized and help us quickly and efficiently locate documents. But in order to work, users have to follow the rules. And there is always that one person who can’t quite seem to manage it. You know them: they are...
The Holy Grail of Electronic Note-Taking
I am somewhat of a “gadget guy”, and am also not fond of filing, retrieving, and lugging around paper. A lethal combination, which has led me down many false trails in my search for the elusive ideal electronic note-taking solution. Like most professionals, I have to...
Implementing Windows 10 in a Law Firm
One of the best presentations I saw at this year’s ABA TechShow was given by Nerino Petro and Josh Lazar on implementing Windows 10 in a law firm. Why would introducing a new operating system in a law firm be different than anywhere else? Answer: Because law firms...
ABA TechShow 2017: Emerging Trends
I spent the latter part of last week (March 15-17) wandering the aisles of the ABA TechShow 2017 in Chicago, trying to discern any emerging trends in the world of Law Office Technology. I found a few things of note. The Cloud-based Practice Management category...
Crosspointe visits the ABA TECHSHOW
Crosspointe Consulting Group, LLC conducted our annual members’ meeting in Chicago on Tuesday, March 14, prior to the ABA TechShow. It was good to have a real face-to-face meeting for a change, after our many “virtual” meetings throughout the year. We are excited...