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Trust Account Management – Where Fiduciary Duty Meets Financial Sense
Second in a series of articles by Dana Riel and David Michael (3-minute read) Holding funds in trust for your clients is one of the most sensitive...
Business of Law: Having the Last Word
Here’s a question: What is the most frequent type of complaint filed against lawyers? Mishandling trust funds. Lack of communication. Fee disputes....
Proactive Management Based (Self) Regulation
Much of life is reactive, sometimes unpleasantly so. Here is the good news. There are ways to be proactive in your law practice; to provide great...
Online Software Has Changed the Law Office Software Debate
The debate over “best-of-breed” versus “all-in-one” software for law office management has long been a critical decision for law firms seeking to...
Is Time Matters Still a Viable Option for Law Firms?
Time Matters is a feature-rich on-premises contact, case, calendar, and document management application. It remains one of the premier products for...
Crosspointe Has a New Member
(3 minute read) Crosspointe Consulting Group is proud to announce a new addition to our team: David Michael of Michael Matters, Inc. from...
CARET Legal Workflows – Now Better Than Ever
(2-minute read) In May, CARET was proud to announce and release their latest features to their award-winning application, CARET Legal. Among those...
Factors in Choosing a Cloud Platform
With many good options available now for migrating your data into the cloud, the software selection process can be daunting. How should you select...
Entering Non-Client Related Payments in CARET Legal
CARET Legal is a cloud-based comprehensive program that supports law firms’ daily operations. It includes: contact management matter management lead...
NEW! Workflows Feature in CARET Legal
CARET Legal is rapidly gaining popularity among our clients as a cloud-based practice management application. The reason is clear: it excels in...
The AI Wave in Law Office Software
The AI wave is crashing down on law firms and their law office software applications as you read this article. Some would consider it a tsunami,...
Law Firm Accounting – Does One Size Fit All?
QuickBooks is the “800 pound gorilla” of small business accounting systems, and is heavily used for law firm accounting in many law firms. This...
New Feature in Caret Legal – Time Entry Rules
Attention all insurance defense firms, personal injury firms, IP firms and all other organizations that are required to use electronic billing: ...
Introducing Caret Legal: The Once & Future Practice Management Solution
The month of March is associated with strong winds and change, and this year lived up to it in the realm of legal technology, with two national...
A “Spring Cleaning” for Time Matters?
Read about the latest description of Time Matters features and developments.
The Cloud Is Getting Heavier
As law office management software continues to “mature”, two things are happening: The Cloud is getting heavier, with more substantive law office...
Time Matters Database Cleanup
Have you ever found that, after years of fast and reliable use, your database is no longer as responsive as it once was? Databases that remain in...
Announcing Time Matters 2021
PCLaw|Time Matters, LLC, is proud to announce its release of a new version of Time Matters. The title of this new version includes the year of its...
PDF Document Search with SymphonyOCR
PDF documents are ubiquitous. They are now even referenced by “Dr. Rick” in a humorous Progressive Insurance TV ad. What that ad does not...
News from PCLaw|Time Matters
We’ve written about cloud-based applications in our recent posts, but the staff at PCLaw|Time Matters LLC (also known as “P|T”) have been busy with...
Using Lookup Files in Time Matters
Recently we assisted a client of ours in designing custom screens for Contacts in their Time Matters program. Our client was struggling because they...
Report from LegalWeek 2020: What I Learned
ALM’s Legalweek New York is where lawyers and industry pundits share their views of important technology trends, and vendors come to announce new...
Invoices and Statements in TimeSolv
TimeSolv is a cloud-based, comprehensive time tracking & billing application with robust practice management features. It claims to simplify the...
Review: Time Matters 16.5
Time Matters has offered a link with Microsoft Exchange that makes it the central point for synchronization of Contacts, Events, and Tasks. Version 16.5 updated the code for this link for improved performance and security.
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
It’s hard to believe that we are coming up on the end of 2019. The holiday season awaits. But with the impetus...
Time Matters/CIC Conference
Lexis Nexis recently hosted a Certified Independent Consultants (CIC) conference in Raleigh, NC, to brief us on the latest developments with the...
SO, YOU THINK YOU ISSUED YOUR REPORTS?
There is nothing that annoys me more than when I have issued my productivity and profitability reports and then find that the next report's...
PCLaw | Time Matters LLC Created by Lexis and LEAP
In yet another interesting merger of companies offering both on-premise and cloud-based law office software applications, LexisNexis and LEAP Group...
Lexis releases Time Matters 16.4
Earlier this month Lexis released Time Matters 16.4 as an upgrade to their existing Version 16 practice management software. Time Matters customers...