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Six Tips for Keeping Your Solo Legal Practice Organized

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Invest in universal access If we’re honest, the ability to work from anywhere plays a significant role in many attorneys’ decisions to open a solo firm. While cloud-based computing programs like Outlook and Google Drive make working from home or the beach easier for everyone, they aren’t designed for law firms.

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10 Things You Can’t Do Without Legal Software

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Law practice management systems are a great choice, since any well-rounded platform should include a contact management system that allows you to relate all system contacts to all relevant client files in your system. Document management. Enter cloud-based legal document management software.

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The Benefits of Virtual Legal Assistants

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Everyone gives a different explanation—ranging from the pre-recorded phone greetings you hear when you call your pharmacy to the remote worker drafting your Facebook posts to the work-from-home paralegal who onboards newly retained clients. Inbox and calendar management. Data entry and document management.

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The Cloud Provides Law Firms a Safe Place to Work

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The legal sector has felt this particularly keenly, suddenly finding that every aspect of their business from client communication, team collaboration, to how courts function change. Traditional working practices, that have been established over many decades, have been disrupted.

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Top 4 Tips for Building Resiliency Into Your Law Firm in 2021

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Some of the key internal communication tools your firm should implement include law firm direct messages , internal chat that is ideally built into your law practice management software, and videoconferencing. This type of software makes it easy to store and quickly access law firm documents from any computer.

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How to Thrive as a Remote Work Lawyer

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They will also likely have regular court dates. But, they may be able to work remotely at various times around those responsibilities. An estate lawyer, on the other hand, will typically have fewer in-person commitments and may be able to work from home much more often. How to Be a Successful Remote Work Attorney.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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For all that was horrible about 2020, we emerged from it and crossed over into 2021 with a sense of hope. Do courts fully reopen or not? Also last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court approved a pilot project to permit “legal paraprofessionals” to provide legal services in certain matters. Do lawyers return to the office or not?

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