Get a better understanding of why SEO matters for law firms and how lawyers can get started generating more traffic for their websites.
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Twenty years ago, law firms were being encouraged to go online and build out websites. (Quality wasn’t the primary concern. Simply having a website put you at the top of the industry.)
Ten years ago, the focus shifted to creating better website experiences.
Today, there’s a need for optimizing law firm website architecture to ensure prospective clients are getting as much value as possible from these sites. The question is, does your website have a strategy for handling its architecture, navigation, SEO, etc.?
Underutilized tools within Time Matters include the use of HotKeys or those keyboard shortcuts that help users move quickly throughout the program. Firms familiar with the program may recognize a few off this master list of key combinations to make your Time Matters office even more efficient.
FreshBooks and Wave are two programs that both aim at helping people with no clue on how to do their own books with their daily accounting through a clean, simple interface and other user-friendly features. Both come with a fairly manageable learning curve and are ideal for novice bookkeepers.
It is estimated that over 80% of emails sent each day is spam. Of that, a significant portion contains some sort of virus, phishing or malicious intent. Not only does this represent a major security risk, but unwanted and email also affects productivity and clogs your network. In the event that an email slides pass your spam filter, how can you tell whether it’s malicious? Here are a few ways.
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Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few). Here is what you need to know about Clio, from signing up to backing up your data
Review of MetaJure Document Management System (2014)
MetaJure is an innovative way to share and search for documents. It allows its users to save documents without learning a new structure. How? MetaJure crawls throughout the folder tree, either on a local PC or a network share, looking for documents to index.
These results then become public to those who have been granted the permission to view them within the firm’s network. This eliminates the need for manual profiling, data conversions, or migrations during a new install.
How Records Searches Help You Vet Clients
Building and maintaining a successful legal practice requires attracting and acquiring new clients. However, not all prospects are worth representing. One best practice is to have a well-defined intake process using thorough due diligence to vet clients. Doing so can eliminate surprises that would otherwise delay or derail a case.
3 Tips to Streamline Your Drafting Process
According to the American Bar Association (ABA), drafting is a “mission-critical function” for all law offices. Your legal documents should capture your practice’s intellectual capital and set it apart from other competitors. While drafting methods have remained relatively unchanged for decades, the increasingly hyper-competitive legal market has forced attorneys to seek out and adopt new legal technologies to streamline their drafting processes.
