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If you were an early adopter of a practice management solution for your firm, chances are it was before cloud computing had taken off. If your firm is one of many still using a legacy practice management application, you may be forced to move to a new platform when your existing provider discontinues support. A better option? Proactively choose to move to a modern legal practice management system (LPMS) on your own timeline.

The average person spends 28% of the workweek reading and responding to email.

During our recent ALA webcast, The Flexible Law Firm: Is your practice ready to embrace a work from home program?, there were dozens of questions around technology solutions required for successful implementation of a work-from-home program. You need the right devices, the right processes and the right software that:

A work-from-home policy presents many benefits and drawbacks for a modern law firm. With a virtual law office, your firm will save on monthly rent costs and is likely to experience less employee turnover. However, remotely participating in meetings with clients and employees can be challenging when employees must rely on technology alone for critical communication. Luckily, there are affordable technologies available that will alleviate some of these challenges.

Inspired by the latest Netflix binge craze, “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo,” millions of Americans are decluttering. In the series, organizing expert Kondo travels to homes of stressed-out Americans to help them discard items that no longer spark joy and organize their living spaces in a meaningful way. Kondo contends that having little time or energy to organize can lead to anxiety and tension. As she explains in her best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing: “In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.”

In RPost’s prior posts, they discussed common misconceptions about proving email delivery. In the final piece of this three part series on common misconceptions about email delivery, they’ll examine a type of system that some professionals use and mistakenly believe proves fact of e-delivery, a link-retrieval system.

In the first part of this series, our partner RPost explained common misconceptions about email security and delivery. In this segment, they will introduce and debunk several other common misconceptions about proving email delivery.

In this three-part series from our partner, RPost, you will learn about the importance of secure e-delivery and ways to safeguard your critical client communications. While a lawyer’s ethical obligation to protect confidential information online has been a concern for some time, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has recently issued ABA Formal Opinion 477R, which provides direction regarding when heightened security measures are warranted.

The idea that legal technology could be better suited for the less tech-savvy lawyer sounds counterintuitive. The truth is that CARET Legal, next generation legal practice management software, provides lawyers who are less familiar with technology with a leg up. This is due in part to the fact that law practice management solutions streamline the use of many different legal tech tools such as accounting programs, document management systems, email, and interoffice communication systems. With legal practice management software, all of these different tech tools fall into one, more manageable program.