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The Benefits of Virtual Legal Assistants

MyCase

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. Virtual legal secretaries. Virtual receptionists and live chat agents.

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ABA Survey: Lawyer Demographics and Wage Data in 2021

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Not surprisingly, the legal profession has not been immune, and lawyers and their firms have been impacted in many different ways. Many of these technologies and practices are here to stay, but because of all the change, it’s difficult to predict what the legal profession will look like on the other side of the pandemic.

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4 Tips for Drafting Billable Time Entries

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Tip 2: Know ALL of the Ins and Outs of Your Timekeeping Software I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve been inside a law firm doing a live session of the Billable Hour Boot Camp , and half the people in the room didn’t know that their firm’s time entry software could do XYZ function.

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10 WFH Paralegal Technology Tools

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Many paralegals have now migrated to the work-from-home status permanently or part-time. Many paralegals have also experienced “burnout” due to the pressures of the times while lacking some tools to sustain productivity and efficiency in our newly set up home offices. OCR Software. You are not retyping that, right?

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Attorney Lead Generation: Tips & Best Practices

MyCase

In this article, we’ll provide a brief overview of attorney lead generation, how it works, and how you can use it to build a profitable legal practice. It is still surprisingly common for law firms to use word-of-mouth referrals, mailers, and billboards as their only method of legal lead generation.

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Houston Personal Injury Firm Saves 2 Hours Per Day with MyCase

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When running a law firm, time is a scarce commodity. And that’s how I’ve grown my firm, because everything is so organized as far as my details for my Workflows and my Tasks. There are days where I don’t have to talk to my assistants at all — particularly when they’re working from home.”.

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Day in the Life of a Litigation Paralegal

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I love the work I do, no matter how stressful it may get. I work from home as a fully remote paralegal, so I usually start at 8:30 AM and end my day around 5:00 PM. As soon as I wake up, I prepare my coffee, and I get to work. She loves being a paralegal and has hopes to attend law school in the near future.

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