Top 5 Concerns on the Business Side of Law
Running a successful law firm is as much about running a business as it is practicing law. It is the business side of law that has a habit of bogging firms down. They get so busy with the business of law that they are not devoting enough time and attention to...
How Secure is Your Law Firm’s Data?
Data security is of paramount concern for law firms. Right off the bat, firms have professional and ethical obligations to protect data pertaining to both clients and cases. Firms also have a responsibility to themselves. To run a firm without appropriate data...
Cloud Software is for Your Clients as Well
We often talk about cloud-based legal case management software and how it benefits law firms. Yet said benefits do not end at the law office door. They reach outside of the office to touch the lives of clients as well. Clients appreciate working with their attorneys...
Is Your Law Firm’s Contact Information Up to Date?
The days of looking up contact information in a Rolodex are gone. Even PDAs are barely used these days. Contact information in the modern office is generally stored in databases accessed through local network computers and mobile devices. This leads us to ask the...
Use Technology to Improve Your Work-Life Balance
Research into how U.S. workers spend millions of hours of their work time clearly shows that many of us are overworked. The startling data is not occupation specific, so it applies across nearly every employment sector in the country. That means attorneys are...
E-Discovery 2019: What Has Changed in the Last Decade?
E-Discovery is one of the things we put time into developing for the NuLaw legal case management app. Combined with all of the rest of the tools we built into the software, we think e-discovery makes NuLaw among the best legal case management software packages on the...
Concierge Law in the On-Demand Economy
The on-demand economy has brought us a lot of great things. For example, you can now arrange for a ride from virtually anywhere using a smartphone app. You can video chat with a doctor in hopes of figuring out why your cold won't go away. There are so many things you...
Applying Customer Service to the Practice of Law
NuLaw is legal case management software built on the Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) platform. We chose Salesforce as our base because we believe that applying a customer service mindset to the practice of law makes for a better law firm. Attorneys...
3 Things New Attorneys Might Not Know About Trust Accounts
Billing is a big part of our law office case management software. It has to be because billing is part of running a successful law firm. Along with billing comes managing trust accounts that contain funds clients deposit with their attorneys based on retainer fee...
5 Things to Consider When Upgrading Billing Software
A surprising survey released in 2017 showed that the typical attorney in the U.S. only has 2.3 billable hours per eight-hour workday. A follow-up survey in 2018 showed a slight increase to 2.4 billable hours. That's amazing when you consider how many hours the average...