Time to take stock of your Technology Tools
Here you are in 2011 and the year-end pause is over. You are already ramped up, dealing with deadlines, client development, and administrative work. Where is the work/life balance that you promised yourself was just a matter of reaching the target number of clients?...
Resolve to get your Docs in a Row in 2011
When people used to think about document management solutions (or DMS), two things were true: Only large firms could afford one, and an internal IT department was required to manage it; It tracked word processing documents exclusively. No more – there are a wide...
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
Season’s Greetings! It’s December. There is a crispness to the air. Lights are everywhere. Music is playing in the streets. And Section 179 of the United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 179), allows a taxpayer to elect to deduct the cost of certain types...
What is Your Time REALLY Worth?
This is supposed to be the dawning of the age of “alternative fee arrangements”(cue the music…), when lawyers are encouraged to be “creative” in how to price professional services, and move away from the ubiquitous hourly billing model. Carol Schiro Greenwald, PhD, of...
Why Do I need Time Billing Software?
If you read Dana’s recent post here about QuickBooks, you know she stated that it can handle “simple” billing tasks. Knowing Dana as I do, I know that she cringed when she wrote this, being fully aware of the can of worms she inevitably opens when defining...
Linking Time Matters and QuickBooks
The LexisNexis Time Matters® practice management software solution allows law firms, legal departments and many other types of project-oriented organizations to manage cases (or matters, projects, etc.), contacts, calendar events, tasks, notes, emails, and even to...
Psst, Wanna Follow Us?
Did you know that 71% of “tweets” from Twitter are ignored? That statistic doesn’t surprise any of us here at Eastern Legal Systems. After all, who wants to know what somebody had for dinner, what sporting event you are watching tonight, or other such mundane news?...
Tracking your Mail in Time Matters
Recently a client sent me an email, expressing her enthusiasm for her new ‘Droid phone. “I love the fact that I can go to Google, put in the tracking number for a package, and find out its status!” she said. I congratulated her on her new phone but said that (1)...
Plain Speaking About Software Upgrades
As law office automation software has grown more powerful, it has also become more elaborate and complex. As a result, the frequency of “service” release software updates has grown, and the level of difficulty involved in installing these updates has also increased....
Who is Eastern Legal Systems, anyway? Why does it matter?
Eastern Legal Systems was recently referenced – favorably, I might add – in a blog post by John Heckman in his legal technology blog “Does it Compute?” We are cited in the post as one of a handful of new “Premier-Level” consulting firms associated with LexisNexis,...