LEAP can increase law office billing by as much as 30 percent because the system facilitates capturing every service provided to the client — and that makes the investment well worth the money. Focused on Serving Small Law Firms LEAP is a ...
Chris Stock - May 2, 2016
ABA TECHSHOW just marked its 30th anniversary. The traditional gift for a 30th anniversary is pearl — and that's appropriate since I have received many pearls of wisdom in my years at the conference. I attended my first TECHSHOW in 1999 and I ...
Jim Calloway - April 6, 2016Any nontrivial decision presents a tournament of reasons. Choosing document drafting tools for law practice is a classic case, featuring a complex dance of circumstances, candidates and considerations. This is the third in a series of short ...
Marc Lauritsen - January 26, 2016
In my previous post on "Choosing a Document Automation System," we kicked off the topic with a checklist of circumstances and goals for those embarking on what can ...
Marc Lauritsen - December 16, 2015The secret’s out. Many legal documents, even quite complex ones, can be reliably drafted by intelligent software when it is supplied with appropriate inputs. Consumers and businesses have become accustomed to preparing their own documents with ...
Marc Lauritsen - November 18, 2015
Running a small law firm is no easy feat. Aside from the fact that law school gives you little in the way of business or technology skills, there’s also the small matter of spending the majority of your time dealing with people at some of the ...
Chelsey Lambert - July 22, 2015
If any of your clients are involved with health care, you know how highly regulated the field is. You may think you are complying with all the regulations and have lock-tight security measures in place at your firm. But you could be ...
Joe Kelly - July 6, 2015
In "Your Law Firm's DMS: Put the Past Behind You," Brian Ruthruff ...
Brian Ruthruff and Dodie Edelstein - October 28, 2013
Meeting tight deadlines for filing motions is stressful by itself. But it's even more nerve-rattling when legal research, drafts and comments are scattered all over the place and not accessible when needed. In a typical law firm, email-based ...
Nitin Gupta - October 21, 2013
A law firm's document management system (DMS) is fundamental. It keeps things working and should make life better. Is yours doing that? Many law firms are using "legacy" systems and don't realize just how far behind their systems are. Current ...
Brian Ruthruff and Dodie Edelstein - October 2, 2013