No More Excuses – New ABA Rules Require Lawyers to “Get With the (Tech) Program”
In August, 2011 the ABA House of Delegates adopted six new resolutions to amend the Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Among the resolutions – Lawyers must “keep up” with technology relevant to the client and the representation; and Lawyers must ensure...
Report from the Amicus Certified Consultant Conference
Gavel & Gown CEO Ron Collins presented an impressive set of new capabilities for the Gavel & Gown legal software product line at the Certified Consultant Conference on March 14-15 in Toronto. All of the Amicus Attorney case management offerings will now permit...
Protecting Your Data: Are You Covered?
Tech professionals, consultants, back office personnel and most other computer users all acknowledge that backups of valuable data, computer files, and other critical electronic information is a key task in a firm’s core business processes. In my experience, however,...
Notice to Our Time Matters Customers
On February 11 LexisNexis, the manufacturer of the Time Matters practice management software application, issued a technical bulletin to its Certified Independent Consultants. We want to share that information with you, in the event that you have not also been...
Impressions from LegalTech 2013
Here is a round up of our tour of the Exhibit Hall at last week’s LegalTech New York 2013, one of the most important legal technology trade shows. The big themes this year were big data and social media. Big data refers to the need to control, make secure, and access...
Speed, Mobility and Protection
I am a dyed-in-the-green-wool Philadelphia Eagles fan, so of course I have been anxiously following the unfolding story of Chip Kelly, the new Eagles coach, and the revolutionary offensive system he will be implementing to return the Eagles to their former (?) glory...
Coming up at LegalTech NYC 2013
With LegalTech New York 2013 fast approaching, from Wednesday, January 29 to Friday, January 31 at the New York Hilton, we can report on what key vendors for the small-firm to mid-firm market will be announcing to the world of legal technology. Admission to the...
A Hidden Gem in Time Matters?
The attorney was interested in saving emails in Time Matters but her face fell when I showed how it was done. “We are careful to save our emails as .msg files” she explained. We’ve got to be sure we preserve them in their original form… “ In the past, saving emails in...
Attaching Supporting Documentation in Timeslips 2013
When firms incur client-related costs, they are often obligated to include documentation to prove those costs were paid. At the very least, a copy of a receipt would be attached to a paper invoice and mailed to the client. More often nowadays, an invoice is sent via...
Beginning of the End for the PC?
Having just survived election season, we are all very much attuned to “key indicators” that can help to predict outcomes. Certainly we have seen no lack of these in the press over the past few months, some accurate, some not so much. In the technology industry, a key...