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Zola Law Practice Management Software

First things first: Zola is pretty. Really pretty. Designed-by-designers-not-lawyers level of pretty. And that makes sense, given that the team behind Zola are the folks at Amicus Creative, a web-design company. Pretty does not always mean powerful, however, as is evident from another recent newcomer, Ciinch. Zola occupies some of the same territory as Ciinch, such as having a clean one-screen dashboard interface, but adds a few key things that are missing.

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PowerPoint Tip - Adding a Whiteboard to your Presentation

PowerPoint has a white board feature that allows you to insert notes into a live presentation. This feature allows you to transcribe audience ideas or feedback in real time. This tool makes interactive presentations more efficient and makes the transition from presenting a slide to notating ideas seamless.

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Pros and Cons of Incorporating Apps into Your Law Firm

Perhaps you are a solo practitioner who has been taking on more and more clients, and you’re finding yourself increasingly overwhelmed by the complex logistics of tracking your billing and case notes. Alternatively, maybe your small law firm is searching for efficiencies to bring costs down or looking for e-billing software and other apps to improve the firm’s efficiency and make life easier for your team. Before you hit that “download” button, evaluate these pros and cons.

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Intake123 – Customer Relationship Management Software

While there are a lot of choices for legal practice management software, there are far fewer for client intake and customer relationship management (CRM). Attorneys should track people from the moment of initial contact to the signed retainer. Intake software allows attorneys to systematize that process with standardized forms and other tools. Intake/CRM software helps attorneys measure the success of their marketing efforts by being able to see what types of lead generation or marketing campaigns lead to the greatest number of retained clients. Intake123 offers a broad range of standardized forms and ways to track clients through the sign-up process.

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Essential Law Office Software

A modern law office needs more than furniture and smart lawyers in order to run. We use computers to write briefs, send emails, review evidence, generate invoices, and manage firm finances. In the realm of law office technology, there are good tools and bad tools, overpriced tools and underpriced tools, secure tools and insecure tools. We’ll be highlighting different types of legal technology throughout the year, so we’re starting with the basics.

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FactBox - Case Organizing Software

FactBox is a cloud-based tool for collecting and organizing the facts and evidence in your cases. It’s a bit like Evernote or OneNote, but built specifically for lawyers, investigative journalists, and others who need to make sense of piles of facts and evidence.

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Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

Whether or not you are paperless in your office, you are probably dealing with PDFs. If you are dealing with a lot of them, you need PDF-editing software. Adobe Acrobat is the definitive PDF-editing software, by the company that created the PDF format. Here are 4 software programs to use as an alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

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Why Choose CaseFleet for Case Management?

CaseFleet strives to do less of the things that don’t matter and more of the things that actually help lawyers better run their practice and manage their cases. CaseFleet has invested heavily in a feature they call Timelines. This tools allows you to track the relevant details of a case - dates, times, locations, etc - and link them to contacts, plus tag entries to allow for search of specific types of entries. In a single case with dozens of witnesses and hundreds of facts, you can prepare for a deposition on the fly by viewing all facts associated with a witness by simply clicking on the witness's name.

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LexisNexis Firm Manager Law Practice Management Software

Firm Manager is one of the few cloud-based practice management software packages to include a conflict-checking feature. Basically, though, it’s just a search box. You type in the terms you want to check for (like a company name), and see what turns up. Here is a list of features available in Firm Manager.

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Footnote Tips

Changing Footnote Numbering; Word allows you to specify both a starting footnote number and whether the numbering is continuous or starts over with each new section or new page in a document.

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