LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

7, 2022, at the NetDocuments Inspire 2022 conference for its customers and partners, I had the privilege of moderating a fireside chat with four legal innovation leaders. The four panelists were: John Hunter , Chief Information Officer, Council of Europe. . Mike Lucas , Chief Information Officer, Wilson Sonsini.

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Rocket Matter

APRIL 25, 2023

What is automation? Legal automation is a process in which a software program manages the execution of many administrative processes, including: Designing workflows Communicating with clients Tracking billables Generating documents Long story short: if you have a repeatable process, it can most likely be automated.

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Above The Law

JULY 30, 2021

Office Managing Partner. Global Chair. Head of Litigation. Those are some nice-sounding titles, right?

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Rocket Matter

APRIL 18, 2023

Contracts, legal briefs, memoranda, and other documents are the lifeblood of law firms. It’s no stretch to say that law firms consume a LOT of paper. In fact, the average attorney goes through 100,000 sheets of paper each year.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 18, 2018

Legal Talk Network is proud to announce that they are relaunching the Lunch Hour Legal Marketing podcast with new hosts Gyi Tsakalakis and Kelly Street. Despite an unorthodox beginning, we discovered right away that the podcast had value to legal professionals and decided to ratchet up its audio quality as we went.

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

By Lawrence Pascoe Compared to other businesses, lawyers have not evolved in how they serve their clients Let’s be honest; the way lawyers serve their clients has not changed much , not just from the late 1970s when I started practicing law but probably since the 1200s when England passed laws regulating the conduct of the legal profession.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ashley is a Sessional Instructor for the Paralegal Studies and Office Assistant Programs at McEwen University, and she has over 16 years of experience in the legal industry. Ashley’s dedication to supporting future legal professionals shines through her teaching and mentorship. Prefer Audio Instead of Reading?

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LawSites

JUNE 26, 2023

In what appears to be a first for a state bar association, The Florida Bar is providing each of its 110,000 members with free access to legal trust accounting software – a move its new president believes will help attorneys better comply with trust accounting requirements and better protect the public from trust violations.

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LLRX

JUNE 21, 2023

Perhaps surprising to some, it is not an exaggeration to state that we have leaders of America’s largest firms managing hundred-million to billion dollar businesses, all too often thrust into the role with 67% of them having no clear job description and one in five reporting it to be a “pretty much sink or swim” exercise.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 7, 2021

Legal operations has existed for longer than one might think. Before the role was defined, some functions were performed by an office manager within the in-house legal department. In this series of three articles, we will explore the importance and immediacy of understanding your legal operations.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The ABA TechReport combines data from the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report with expert analysis, observations, and predictions from leaders in the legal technology field. Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned! Technology for Client Communication: Are Client Portals the Answer?

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ALPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It nevertheless gave me time to think about the roles of paralegals and how important paralegals are to the legal profession. What people don’t know about is his office’s unwritten rule that my mom (his paralegal, bookkeeper, office manager, IT & HR department) proofreads every document that my dad prepares before it leaves the office.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This difficult boss can be an attorney, office manager, or maybe even a paralegal manager. Because of that shakeup, I was assigned to an attorney who had been through many paralegals and legal assistants in a short period of time. The legal community is a small one.

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 19, 2023

By all accounts, she possessed the necessary legal chops. However, as managing partner, I began to receive complaints from firm partners that they had trouble getting ahold of her and that often her work was turned in last minute, which created pressure and problems for them. All partners agree that you possess the legal chops.

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MyCase

JUNE 14, 2022

Law firm accounting can be a lengthy process, widely despised by attorneys and other legal professionals who’d instead be practicing law than crunching numbers. . However, leaving the task to an office manager or assistant can result in inconsistent, error-ridden financial records. Accounting Vs. Bookkeeping.

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Rocket Matter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

If you’re running a law firm, the word “busy” might be an understatement when describing your workload. You’re responsible for managing legal professionals, organizing meetings, planning projects, and seeing them through to completion.

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Cenza

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In the past couple of decades, the legal industry has witnessed consolidation in the global legal market, coupled with technological advancements. In the post-COVID legal world, smart law firms will have to embrace process efficiencies, combining all these three elements—distributed workforce, technology, and expertise.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 24, 2022

Here’s what one legal technology company has learned about balancing productivity, creativity and well-being. The nature of the legal industry is constant, even during a global pandemic. Another factor to consider is an office management platform to help monitor risk.

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MyCase

JUNE 14, 2022

Law firm accounting can be a lengthy process, widely despised by attorneys and other legal professionals who’d instead be practicing law than crunching numbers. . However, leaving the task to an office manager or assistant can result in inconsistent, error-ridden financial records. Accounting Vs. Bookkeeping.

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Rocket Matter

APRIL 4, 2023

Rest assured: lean management is not some scary overlord tactic to squeeze more productivity out of an already maxed-out team. At its core, a lean legal firm is one that maximizes value and minimizes waste. Instead, it’s about figuring out how to optimize workloads to spend more time on the things that matter. How does it work?

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Importantly, this ruling DOES NOT affect the legal obligation of entities formed in California, Nevada, or Delaware (among other states) to file their BIO Report within the timeframes specified in the chart below at this time.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 28, 2023

On the other hand, legal business intelligence tools are already tailored toward legal practices, so law firms can hit the ground running with the tools that already work for them. What are legal business intelligence KPIs? Running a legal practice is definitely one of those things.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 27, 2023

But it doesn’t need to be this way—especially when you use automation to your advantage. Barriers to effective legal marketing Ethical considerations aside, there are several barriers that solo, small, and medium-sized law firms face when they try to improve their marketing. Running a legal practice is definitely one of those things.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

Let’s start with, how did you get into the legal profession? This allowed me to learn more about the legal profession so that I could potentially advance and learn even more. You are then given cases, you’ve advanced to an office manager. The firm I was with didn’t do a lot of legal research.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When you navigate all that and get to the receptionist’s desk, he’s calling the office manager to let them know that you’re there…and you’re 20 minutes late. From a management point of view, while being late isn’t going to cause you to lose a paralegal job, it does not bode well for you as an employee. I’ll be honest here.

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MyCase

AUGUST 26, 2022

Creating a successful firm starts with pleasing two audiences: your legal professional team (lawyers, paralegals, legal secretaries, office managers, etc.) MyCase legal practice management software offers a variety of features designed to help you stay on top of KPIs without wasting time. . and clients. .

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 4, 2024

He had a friend who was the office manager at a local law firm, in Sarasota, Florida. Adapting With What I Learned as a Paralegal I do think that being a paralegal and working in the legal industry for all those years helped me. Legal assistant can be an alternative title to a paralegal, but there is a difference.

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The Researching Paralegal

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics, 270 (2016) ( with hat tip to William P. Paralegals and legal support staff – do not think you are off the hook. Avoiding Grievances: 25 Things You Can Do, David Bright, St. I was taught that the biggest client complaint to bar associations was lack of communication.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 23, 2023

There’s no HR department to go talk to, there’s no supervisor or office manager. If you’re a part of any of the paralegal social media groups you see them say similar things about attorneys in larger offices with colleagues, more attorneys, and even office managers – and it still happens.

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LexBlog

MARCH 29, 2012

Modern technology continues to improve the life of attorneys, paralegals and legal secretaries throughout the United States. The Legal Assistant is one of the companies participating in this technological change. The Legal Assistant has added recently their newest product, The Family Law Assistant (TFLA). Legal calendaring.

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LexBlog

MARCH 29, 2012

Modern technology continues to improve the life of attorneys, paralegals and legal secretaries throughout the United States. The Legal Assistant is one of the companies participating in this technological change. The Legal Assistant has added recently their newest product, The Family Law Assistant (TFLA). Legal calendaring.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 15, 2023

Lesson 1: It’s the Practice of Law, But It’s Still a Business During my paralegal years, I was mainly focused on the legal side of operations. However, moving into a management role, I gained a new perspective: the business aspect of a law firm. That doesn’t happen at a big firm.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Technology, including legal software programs, plays a big part in ensuring that your firm runs smoothly on a day-to-day basis. It’s no surprise that lawyers have used different types of legal software to help them run their firms for decades. How Can Legal Software Benefit Different Types of Law Practices?

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 5, 2022

I’m not talking about the legal assistant or receptionist you task with doing social media. The owner is generally doing attorney work, paralegal work, picking up the office manager duties, marketing and even bookkeeping. These are full-time people whose only responsibilities are marketing. Administrative or Nonbillable People.

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The Process Street

APRIL 19, 2022

In fact, industry leaders like the Ethics & Compliance Initiative stand behind all organizations implementing a code of conduct, no matter if they’re legally required to or not. From template packs to blog articles to aid your processes and task management , these essential resources are already being used by HR teams around the globe.

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 30, 2023

Does your legal solution boost your cash flow and save time? Upcoming Free Legal Webinar Optimizing Your Workflows for Better Cash Flows Tuesday, February 21, 2023, at 2 p.m. What’s more, an effective and comprehensive practice management solution will even deliver you rich business insights to let the data do the talking.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To be profitable, smaller law management requires a strategic structure to oversee staff delegation, client relationships, office management, and cases. In this article, we’ll cover: The differences between small law firm management and large law firm management . How to manage a small law firm.

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