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Law firms can save time and money by incorporating electronic signatures into their paperless workflow, but issues of legality, security and implementation must be considered. Many “paperless” offices encounter an obstacle in signatures, often resorting to printing out an electronic document in order to have it physically signed, only to scan it back into electronic…
Applications developed for attorneys, by attorneys. Technology is spreading its roots in the legal industry. Every day, firms take advantage of advancements in practice management, document management, litigation support and information sharing to enhance client service and business development. The American Bar Association continues to play a role in encouraging attorneys to understand and embrace…
Why is it so important for your law firm to keep is software updated? Well, American Bar Association (ABA) Ethics now demand it. Unless your office does not use computer technology at all, there is no longer any excuse to lag behind your competitors. Nothing stands still on the internet, not even the ways by…
Apps that hone marketing and client retention skills The number of attorneys licensed to practice in the United States has doubled over the last 30 years. The overall population has also increased, but only by one third. If this trend continues, competition among attorneys for a limited number of clients will only grow. At one…
Marketing professionals have always needed to study their clients’ competitors: to respond to their tactics and claims, to see where they are improving and succeeding most and to identify their own client’s unique strengths. But with the explosion of internet and social media marketing, that task became monumentally more complex. And the number of client-crucial…
A 2011 report by Maura Grossman and Gordon Cormack showed technology-assisted review to be 50 times more efficient than manual review at that time. Adoption of e-discovery technology has grown since and continues to raise new issues and challenges for attorneys wishing to fulfill their obligations under the law. Electronic discovery (commonly called “e-discovery”) refers…
MyCase now runs with Intuit’s QuickBooks. What did they get right and what misses the mark? In September, practice management software company MyCase announced integration with Quickbooks accounting software. MyCase users are now able to synchronize invoicing and payments done in MyCase with their Quickbooks accounts. As is always the case with new technology, some…
On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court made a number of federal benefits available to same-sex married couples, striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The impact of the change is vast; marital status is a factor in more than a thousand separate federal statutes. Many areas of the legal field,…
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