Compensation has long been a primary motivator becoming an attorney. It is well known by now that lawyers tend to make six-figure salaries, many of them right out of the gate. At major “Big Law” firms, first-year law associates can bring in well above $100,000. Just how much is the subject of many a conversation, […]
Invoices are the cornerstone of a firm’s billing process. Not only are they crucial for the obvious purpose of communicating with your clients about expenses they’ve accrued with your firms, but they are also a vital element in your firm’s financial record-keeping. For this reason, an efficient and well-executed invoicing process is among the most […]
With every day ushering in a new “must have” app for every type of person, profession, and situation under the sun, “overwhelming” becomes an understatement. An attorney’s time is not only valuable – it’s precious. Though it presents the possibility of finding the next great option, spending hours sifting through various apps is hardly an […]
Nowadays, it seems as though the best-crafted practice management software solutions have such powerful functionality that they all but render in-person office time obsolete. Though working remotely is not necessarily the primary objective of every legal professional, choosing a law office practice management software with the ability to enable this is a great rule of […]
With the widely inundated technological market, the options available to attorneys searching for legal billing software are seemingly infinite. The abundance of solutions available may give way to the false impression that all software is capable of performing the same basic tasks: contact and matter management, time tracking, invoicing, and some degree of document management. […]
Any attorney worth his or her salt is well aware of the importance of client management on a theoretical scale, though it can be difficult to discern exactly where client management ends and advocacy begins. In fact, numerous practice management software allows client management to fall by the wayside, focusing on billable hours and document […]
Timekeeping for an attorney seems to be a dreaded affair. Billable hours vs. non-billable hours is not something they go into at great length in law school, if they touch on it at all. But as the seasoned mavens will tell you, keeping track of all of your billable hours is important, especially if you […]
Organizing the process by which attorneys log, account for, and then bill for their working time is no easy feat. As is the case in most professional situations, firm owners must straddle the delicate line between thoroughness and excess as they verify each and every billable service. This is why even the simplest originating attorney […]
The law, along with the practice of it, is fluid and ever-changing, and so it follows that the tools harnessed by a legal professional in their work be just as versatile. This means that legal automation tools must work to be as forward-thinking as possible, striving not just to adapt, but to anticipate what will […]
