4 Reasons Analytics Should Be Built into Your Legal Software
Attorneys go through years of formal education to learn how to practice law. They do not emerge on the other end as business majors. And yet, law does have a business side to it. That business side cannot be ignored if a firm hopes to hang around for the long term....
3 More Legal Tech Buzzwords Made Simple
We recently published a blog post explaining three of the most commonly misunderstood buzzwords in the legal tech sector. It went over so well that we decided to write a follow-up. Who knows? With all of the jargon we use in the legal tech sector, this could turn out...
Note to Attorneys: You Are Also Writers
A big reason for upgrading from legacy case management software to a new, cloud-based package is to give attorneys more time to actually practice law. Legal case management in the cloud creates a more efficient and productive environment that allows attorneys to spend...
There is Real Value in Training on Your New Software
Your firm has finally made the decision to invest in a new legal case management application. Hopefully your choice is NuLaw. At any rate, you will be spending the next several months in preparation for deployment. Are the decision-makers in your firm also planning...
More In-House Work Requires Better Technology
Corporate legal departments are in a somewhat unique position in that they don't necessarily handle every matter in-house. In fact, it is routine for legal departments to rely on outside counsel and tertiary vendors to handle as much as 50% of the normal workload. But...
Top 5 Reasons Law Firms Are Turning to the Cloud
NuLaw is a Salesforce case management application designed to meet the needs of the modern law firm. It is also a cloud application offered via the software as a service (SaaS) model. We designed NuLaw to take full advantage of the cloud because we are convinced that...
Increase Billable Time by Working Smarter
You have probably heard the admonishment from efficiency experts to 'work smarter, not harder'. Does it apply to practicing law? Absolutely. What's more, the legal profession is saturated with old ways of doing things that do not make for very smart work. You can see...
3 Ways to Apply the KISS Principle in the Modern Era
Back in the 1960s the U.S. Navy officially recognized what is known as the KISS principle. KISS is a design principle based in the idea that it is not wise to make things unnecessarily complicated. In true Navy fashion, the acronym behind KISS was pretty blunt and...
3 Signs Your Law Firm is Being Left Behind
Everywhere you look are signs that the legal sector is in flux. The same technology the rest of the world was made comfortable with a decade ago is now forcing law firms to change the way they do things. You could make the case that the legal sector is being dragged...
Billing Doesn’t Have To Be a Dragged Anchor
Imagine a luxury yacht being prepared for a journey down the east coast of the Mediterranean. The captain gives the command to pull anchor and get underway. Little does he know that the anchor remains in place even as he powers up the engines and push the yacht...