The Case for Practice Management Software
I recently received a copy of an interesting research report created by Blue Hill Research. The document reports on Blue Hill’s findings from a recent survey of practice management software deployment at 45 law firms with 50 or fewer attorneys. Of particular...
A New Model for Sage Timeslips
This summer will bring not the customary one, but two new releases of Sage Timeslips. The first new version is called Sage Timeslips Premium, which is a subscription-based release and features a SQL database. We have also learned recently that there will be a release...
Client Portals
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the emerging and rapidly growing interest in client portals: “A client portal is an electronic gateway to a collection of digital files, services, and information, accessible over the Internet through a web browser. “The term is...
What YouTube Taught Me
In a May 31st New York Times opinion article titled “What YouTube Taught Me”, author Peter Funt described his experience in using YouTube to learn how to break in a baseball glove. The article listed his conclusions from watching several “instructional” videos: “After...
Connecting the Clouds
Over the past two years the pace of adoption for Cloud-based computing services has significantly increased. Especially for the small law firm and for new firm startups, reliance on the Cloud as the de facto provider of case management, time billing, accounting, and...
Save Time & Increase Productivity by Finding Documents with Symphony OCR
Have you ever found yourself searching and searching for a PDF document but with no luck of finding it OR spending 30 minutes of wasted time? To ensure your entire document repository is text searchable, we recommend the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR)...
Revolutionize Your Time Matters Reporting
For many long time Time Matters and PCLaw users, it is no secret that Time Matters reporting functionality leaves something to be desired. Getting useful reports from within the Time Matters application can be cumbersome, and at times impossible. There have been, and...
Server End of Life
End of life issues are always difficult ones to face, even when it comes to technology. Microsoft has announced its Server End of Life date for Microsoft Server 2003, effective July 14, 2015. As with all “end of life” issues, this one carries with it the need to make...
Time Matters Client Portal
There were various discussions with the release of Time Matters 13 within the Time Matters consultant and user communities regarding the “new” Client Portal and its overall purpose. Even now, after the release of version 14.1, consultants and firm administrators are...
The Egg Theory – for Technologists
Having just read John Kirk's thought-provoking article on "The Egg Theory - What Clients Really Want From Their Lawyers" (available for download from TechnoLawyer by clicking here) I did a bit of soul-searching to turn this around, and speculate a bit on what law...