Backing Up Your Data: A Cost-Efficient Safety Net
It must be sunspots – at least that’s my opinion – but this week alone I received four panicked phone calls from clients. One firm experienced a catastrophic server failure, which reduced their time & billing program to shreds. Another firm said during the last...
Announcing Timeslips 2012
Sage Software is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Timeslips Version 2012. Continuing its tradition of being a world class time & billing solution for small- to medium-size service-based firms, this release offers features to improve workflow in the...
Electronic Billing – Part 2
In Part Iof this post published recently we looked at Electronic Billing – what it involves, why your clients use it, and what not to do when asked to comply with it. In this post, let’s examine the options available to firms that must now produce their invoicing data...
News from the Amicus Attorney Consultants’ Conference
Toronto was chilly but the news was hot from the Amicus Attorney Consultants’ Conference, where the plans for several ambitious new products were unveiled by the marketing and product development teams. Some of these cannot be discussed here due to confidentiality,...
Electronic Billing – Part 1
“Our biggest client contacted us and said we are no longer allowed to send them a paper bill. We have to do something like send the bill electronically. Does that mean we can e-mail them a .PDF?” We’ve heard this question, and questions like this, for many years, and...
Putting Your Docs in the Cloud
There is much talk about Software as a Service (SaaS) being the “light” version of the traditional server-based networks that have been deployed over the past few decades. Time to think again. NetDocuments, a web-based document management system by the Utah-based...
Sticking Your Toe in the Cloud
As I return from certification training in Salt Lake City for NetDocuments, the popular document management service for document-intensive professions, I am finding my thoughts are “in the Cloud”, which is where NetDocuments has parked me for the past three days. A...
R U Ready for Mobility?
On February 23, 2011 LexisNexis hosted a webinar to preview its soon-to-be-released Time Matters Version 11 product, which should begin shipping in late March of this year. This webinar included a full demonstration of this new service, as well as a discussion of a...
Tracking Your Own Time
Having just come from Legal Tech-NY last week, I’m impressed with all of the applications available to help users track their time and expenses. Software programs, iPhone apps, iPad apps, internet gateways, hosted applications... What a wonderful age to be in!...
Live From New York! — It’s……
No, it’s not “Saturday night”, it’s only Tuesday. But all of us at Eastern Legal Systems were excited by what we learned at the Legal Tech New York show, which began on Monday. Our first stop was at the Worldox booth, sponsored by World Software Corporation. At...