CARET Legal

APRIL 24, 2024

A must-have feature of legal practice management platforms, case management software, centralizes all your case files, communications, billing, and scheduling in one platform — it’s truly like having a command center for your law firm. The benefits of such software are numerous. Let’s talk about document automation.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans. The maximum amount a client will be able to finance through the service is $15,000.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lawmatics , a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today. The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5 million seed round in October 2020.

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MyCase

JULY 14, 2022

With an attorney billable hours chart, you’ll have a system for efficiently and ethically recording all billables. Paired with helpful software tools, your firm will enhance productivity, improve cash flow, and delight clients. All the time spent on case work (requiring legal skill and judgment) qualifies as billable time.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Contract attorneys have made it possible for legal organizations to level up their teams’ expertise without increasing headcount. . Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. Corporate law departments made structural shifts as well.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. The largest employers of employees and legal assistants were as follows: Legal Services 73%. Finance and Insurance 3%. Obtaining a legal certification or a degree as a paralegal offers an opportunity to seek a variety of career opportunities.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Poor client experience can snowball into a whole host of problems for your firm, including poor client retention, little to no client referrals, and ultimately hurting your law firm’s profitability.  . As we established above, accepting credit card payments for legal services evokes several ethical rules.

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LawSites

JULY 28, 2021

Priori Legal , a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, is expanding to also serve as a marketplace for legal technology and alternative legal services providers. Factor , the alternative legal services provider that describes itself as delivering complex legal work at scale.

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InHouseOps

JULY 18, 2022

I also worked for Stephanie Corey, one of the CLOC co-founders, for a couple years, doing legal technology procurement, where I demoed over 100 pieces of legal technology. Before that I was a practicing attorney—I still have a valid law license, but no longer practice—and I also have an MBA.

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Rocket Matter

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Attorneys who wait until the end of the day to record their time lose 10-15% of their billable hours , and those who wait until the end of the week lose 25%! The good news is, you don’t actually have to write the time down with pen and paper or even in Excel like the old days. Here’s a guide to how to get over that hump.

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MyCase

AUGUST 18, 2023

Enter legal matter management, a strategic approach that empowers law firms to stay on top of their never-ending workload—all from one centralized location. Legal matter management is the comprehensive process of handling all aspects related to a legal matter within a law firm.

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MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

If you’ve ever used tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or MyCase legal practice management software, you’re familiar with SaaS—software as a service. SaaS is modernizing the legal industry in two ways: by making law firms more efficient and creating career opportunities for lawyers worldwide. Scalability

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MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

If you’ve ever used tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or MyCase legal practice management software, you’re familiar with SaaS—software as a service. SaaS is modernizing the legal industry in two ways: by making law firms more efficient and creating career opportunities for lawyers worldwide. Scalability

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lawmatics , a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today. The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5 million seed round in October 2020.

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Rocket Matter

MAY 10, 2023

Rocket Matter with ChatGPT integration allows users to access ChatGPT for content generation, legal document review and more, right within the Rocket Matter platform BOCA RATON, Fla., Advances in AI, with the ability to digest large amounts of information and create compelling text, offer massive efficiency boosts for legal services.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2023

“This has been an amazing year of change for legal tech, including at vLex and Fastcase,” said Ed Walters, Fastcase co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of vLex. This year’s list of honorees reflects a year of transformation for legal services. Bill Girdner , Editor, Courthouse News Service.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 7, 2022

Stop thinking you’re smarter than the finance folks at Netflix when it comes to setting rates. While there are myriad ways to market legal services, digital or otherwise, most lawyers still get the vast majority of their new clients the old-fashioned way: referrals from former clients or other lawyers and professionals.

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Cenza

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The evolution of legal tech was seeded when LexisNexis introduced the red “UBIQ” terminal in 1976 to help lawyers simplify the task of searching case law. This invention set the stage for a technology revolution in the legal space. Early works on AI in legal services can be traced back to 1956 when professor Layman E.

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 17, 2023

We don’t have to remind attorneys why that’s concerning—but for the sake of clarity, we will. . You have the funds and mental energy to provide excellent legal services to your clients, while also investing resources in your operations, staff, and future. . The importance of timely payments for law firms .

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Types of Attorney Fees. Below are some of the most common types of attorney fees. . A fixed fee is most commonly used for routine legal matters such as a standard real estate closing contract. An individual or business may have an attorney or firm on retainer. Electronic Payment Method Options for Law Firms.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Bessemer Venture Partners , a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify , a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in the United States.

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Rocket Matter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For busy law firms, the ability to manage matters efficiently can mean the difference between a thriving practice and a stagnant one. What is matter management for law firms? Matter management is the process by which law firms oversee their cases. But fear not!

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Blumberg

AUGUST 24, 2021

Payroll can be handled internally, or through an outside service (the latter is recommended if you don’t have prior experience working in finances). Having an experienced business law attorney on your side can help you navigate through the complications, so you can focus on what matters most: making your new venture into a reality.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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InHouseOps

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Regarding client-firm relationships, in Wolters Kluwer’s Future Ready Lawyer survey it was noted that law firms fell short in terms of certain client expectations about their capabilities and services. The gaps the survey pointed to suggest that maybe firms don’t know their clients as well as they should.

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MyCase

AUGUST 10, 2022

Those outside the legal field (or new to it) may not be familiar with how lawyers get paid or know that not all payments are created equal. Several factors affect attorney salary and determine a law firm’s profitability. . On the high end of the pay scale are Big Law attorneys. How Do Lawyers Bill Clients?

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 23, 2024

All the successful law firms you see on TV are full of sharpshooters with the smartest teams, the sleekest offices, and the sharpest suits in town. But wait—is their website still stuck in the dial-up era? Having a law firm website is as much of a no-brainer as owning a law library or sporting that indispensable power suit.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

By utilising the legal system as part of hands-on learning, students can apply what they’ve learned to identify and address common problems in today’s world (e.g. international relations, global finance, etc.). Lincoln Law School. How to Begin Your Career in the Legal Industry. University Of York.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2023

Silicon Valley-based Gunderson Dettmer , an international law firm of more than 400 lawyers that represents many clients in the field of artificial intelligence, today launched an artificial intelligence application of its own making — an internal generative AI chat app called ChatGD.

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LawSites

JULY 23, 2021

Additionally, UpCounsel plans to roll out additional products and services and says it will eventually launch its own, UpCounsel-branded, full-service law firm. At the same time, it significantly reduced the commission it charged clients to 8%, making legal services more affordable for them. “We

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LawTechnologyToday

JULY 28, 2021

Benefits of Word Processor Efficiency for Law Offices. As you know, legal services are typically document intensive and often, the service rendered is the document itself (estate planning documents, purchase contracts, leases, etc.). Learn more about the ABA Law Practice Division’s new book titles and their authors!

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

Their company’s objective is to streamline billing and enhance customer service during client phone calls with the single touch of a button. In so doing, the attorney activates an application that helps gather client information with ease while also integrating with existing practice management platforms. The future is nigh!

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ALPS

JULY 14, 2021

BREE: Before assuming her current role, she served as Associate Dean for Professional Engagement and Director of the Center of Professionalism at Penn Law. And prior to that, she was Chief of Staff to the City Solicitor of Philadelphia and a Litigation Associate with a Center City law firm, and a Judicial Law Clerk.

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LawSites

MARCH 17, 2022

Cobra said that the combination of its Value Sourcing methodology and experienced team of attorney project managers with Reveal’s out-of-the-box, pre-trained AI models will make it easier for clients to harness the power of AI throughout any legal task. Read more about LawToolBox on LawNext Legal Tech Directory.].

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Their backstay of tuned-up educational programming was designed to help practitioners run leaner more profitable law firms. This year’s conference featured five tracks to choose from (Legal Technology, Business of Law, Industry Workshops, Clio University, and Clio University Workshops).

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