Legal Technology

Practicing Law on Cloud Nine: ClioCon 2013

Last week at the Clio Cloud Conference in Chicago, the law practice management software company gathered 200-plus faithful users for two days of programming, capped by an exuberant launch of Clio's first-ever iPhone app. (iPhone JD has reviewed ...

Joan Feldman - October 3, 2013
Document Automation
Your Law Firm’s DMS: Put the Past Behind You

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
Step Right Up to the Paperless Law

Forever, it seems, the “paperless law office” has been the Holy Grail for technology-focused law firms. They understand that storing paper onsite is expensive — after all, the firm pays as much per square foot to store paper as it does to house ...

John Gilbert - September 26, 2013
Right-Click Your Way to Computing Paradise

Almost all law office denizens spend time creating and managing files. A lot of files. A lot of time. Whether Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Adobe PDFs or whatever, we create 'em, then spend time in Microsoft Windows Explorer copying them, ...

Vivian Manning - September 16, 2013
Top Five Trends in Time-Billing Software

TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante researched and wrote the recently published TL Research Buyer's Guide to Legal Billing Software, interviewing ...

Neil J. Squillante - September 13, 2013
Free Your Law Practice’s Computing Budget

From 1997 to 2001, I worked for Verio, marketing and selling Internet access and web hosting to businesses. Early on, we had a small marketing budget and relied heavily on direct mail and cold (actual warm) calling. While I was reviewing my ...

Erik Heels - September 9, 2013
Legal Technology Product Beat
Windows Programs on a Mac? The CrossOver Option

I had expected to give CrossOver a resounding “buy” recommendation for anyone with a need to run Windows programs natively on a Mac computer. Unfortunately, even though CrossOver is the perfect answer to our office's specific needs, that will ...

Bob Christensen - September 5, 2013
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Top WordPress Plugins for Your Law Blog and Website, Part 2

What makes WordPress so appealing for blogs and even your law firm's website is that it works right out of the box but can also be customized with themes and plugins. Fred Faulkner - September 3, 2013

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WordPress Plugins for Your Law Blog and Website

If you have a blog, chances are it is powered by WordPress. These days, more law firm websites use WordPress, too. For those who do not know, WordPress is an open-source blogging platform that has matured in many ways to a lightweight content ...

Fred Faulkner - September 2, 2013
Five Things I Learned at ILTA 2013

With more than 200 sessions and 200 exhibitors, the International Legal Technology Association's Annual Conference represents the leading edge of technology in the legal profession — and generates plenty of post-show attention in the ...

Scott Giordano - August 30, 2013
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