In a session at the 2014 ABA TECHSHOW, two speakers compared law firm practice management systems in the cloud and on premise. From the speakers’ vantage point, premise-based solutions tend to be more robust, have a greater capacity for customization but generally cost more. Cloud products, on the other hand, tend to be less expensive because these solutions do not ... Read More »
The biggest challenges facing law firms today may well be ensuring everything works well together. That’s according to Gail Thomas, a billing supervisor with English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley, LLP. The Bowling Green, KY-based law firm practices a wide range of practice areas from personal injury and business litigation – to real estate, immigration and employment law. It is the ... Read More »
Among the 44 leaders who have served as President of the United States, 26 of them were lawyers. This means 59% of those serving in the top executive spot had law degrees. This according to an infographic we first spotted in a post by A2L Consulting titled: 15 Fascinating Legal and Litigation Infographics. We’re struggling a bit to find a ... Read More »
We rolled out the 13th version of LexisNexis Time Matters practice management software last October. The central feature is a secure Client Portal based on technology by WatchDox, which is also used in the LexisNexis Firm Manager cloud based law firm practice management software. To date, customer feedback has been pretty positive – readers of TechnoLawyer for example – voted ... Read More »
la·tentadjective \ˈlā-tənt\ present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic <a latent infection> In lieu of Infographic Friday we’re going with SlideShare Friday and a presentation developed by Richard S. Granat titled: The Latent Market for Legal Services. While the presentation was published in December 2013, we first heard about it during one ... Read More »
At the 2014 LegalTech trade show the LexisNexis Firm Manager team had a chance to sponsor the blogger’s breakfast and a short panel discussion by some of the most prominent bloggers in the legal industry. The session was filmed and we recently obtained a copy from ALM and have uploaded it to our YouTube channel and embedded it here: The ... Read More »
We’ve had a couple days sift through the mass of social media posts, articles and blogs about the ABA TECHSHOW – word plethora comes to mind. By way of Twitter comparison: ITLA Conference: ~5,000 tweets LegalTech: ~2,200 tweets ABA TECHSHOW: ~1,500 tweets One difference in terms of coverage generated is that the ABA Journal did an amazing job covering the ... Read More »
Steven Best and Peggy Gruenke presented an excellent session titled Bills in – Money out. The speakers opened by pointing out that calling up a client that’s late on bill is an unpleasant task. From the speakers’ vantage point the best way to avoid that scenario is to manage expectations from the outset. Here are five tips from their presentation ... Read More »
Thomas L. Rowe and JoAnn Hathaway led a session titled Practice management software from agony to ecstasy and a quick poll of the audience at the beginning demonstrated representation from firms of all sizes – including a substantial population of attorneys working at firms with 100 or more lawyers. The session defined practice management tools, described the differences between premise-based ... Read More »
Some 1,500 tweets crossed the hashtag for #ABATECHSHOW on the first day of the show, according to an analysis completed on Hashtracking. The Droid Lawyer, Jeffery Taylor and Lawyerist scribe Sam Glover helped fuel the exchanges on the social network with respective live blogs: Lawyerist: #ABATechShow 2014 Liveblog The Droid Lawyer: ABA TECHSHOW Live Blog Mr. Glover’s post also includes ... Read More »
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