Indeed, consolidation is one of the most important organizational aspects of our day to day lives. When you make a grocery shopping list, do you make a separate list for each aisle, or do you make one single list for everything you need for your trip? When you’re moving to a new home, do you throw everything into random boxes, or do you strategically fit everything into as few categorized boxes as possible, in order to be more efficient (as well as cost-effective) in the process of bringing everything from point A to point B? When you are running your legal practice, do you want to conduct your day-to-day agenda by clicking in and out of different apps and tabs, or do you want to conduct your business efficiently, through the usage of a single, all-inclusive platform?

This is made possible by utilization of a platform that touts the ability to manage software integrations. Essentially, these integrations streamline day-to-day tasks, and make it easier to not only organize your firm from the top-down, while also improving the cost-effective efficiency with which your firm operates. Think about how much frustration and stress in the day that you can mitigate by not constantly sifting through different platforms just to accomplish one task for one case. Again, referring to the previous analogy- how hard would it be to unpack in your new house or apartment if all of your belongings are spread across multiple mixed-item boxes, when you could’ve just put specific belongings for specific rooms into a single box? With the properly organized moving boxes (properly coordinated integrations), you never have to stress out trying to think about whether you have lost or forgotten something again. Integrations are a proactive measure for any legal practice.

For example, think of a communication integration with a Case Management Software, such as chatter. According to a recent blog from ActiveCampaign, “[software integration] adoption increases the quality of communication between [employees] and managers by 56.9% — meaning less time spent on misunderstandings and more time spent selling.”  Additionally, the blog continues on to state “[Practice management] apps can increase sales productivity by up to 34%. The learning curve can be steep — although a strategic implementation process softens it — but the results are more than worth it and can save your sales team tons of time.” Why continue using a system that continually clutters and otherwise complicates your day, when you can bring in a new system that improves upon finance and efficiency for your practice?

NuLaw understands that consolidation is key to running any business more efficiently than ever before. That is why we have so many integrations available with our software. Powered by Salesforce, manage your firm’s day-to-day operations while utilizing software such as SharePoint, Outlook, Office 365, Gmail, Google Calendar, Quickbooks, airSlate, Adobe Sign, Docusign, and NuPay- all from the single NuLaw dashboard! Managing your firm from a single all-inclusive platform has never been easier, or more efficient. With NuLaw, enjoy the time-saving power of software that just works.

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For the better part of the last several decades, we have witnessed technology being the driving force in the way our society does so many things. Take the smartphone for example. The vast majority of smartphone owners now use their devices to access the internet. But they were accessing the internet before the smartphone existed.

The internet did not give rise to the smartphone. Rather, the smartphone changed the way people access the internet. This is a clear case of technology driving a change in consumer behavior. But in the legal profession, it is not so cut and dried. Sometimes it is the legal industry determining the direction of technology. In fact, below we list three ways in which the practice of law is driving legal tech right now:

1. Better Client Management

Law firms in the internet age are struggling to maintain client relationships while still using legacy software and communication methods. They need something new; they need something better. As such, companies like ours have responded by creating cloud-based law practice management software that accounts for this new way of doing business.

NuLaw itself is built on the popular Salesforce CRM platform. Back when we started NuLaw, we felt that taking a CRM approach was the best way to ensure that law firms have the right client management tools to make the best of cloud-based software. The decision proved spot on.

2. Privacy and Security

Next, the legal industry has come to realize in recent years that the old ways of doing things present too many security risks. Locally hosted software that has not been updated in years is terribly vulnerable to data breaches. Without proper backup procedures in place, locally hosted data is ripe for corruption or complete loss. Once again, the legal sector needed something new.

The NuLaw law practice management software is based in the cloud. And thanks to robust improvements in cloud computing over the last decade, the cloud is one of the most secure and private environments in the cyber sphere.

3. Direct Investment

Finally, the legal sector is driving legal tech innovation through direct investment. We are starting to see a growing number of larger law firms investing in legal tech companies for the purposes of leveraging resources to improve their own practices. Simply put, firms are investing in legal tech providers in hopes that those providers will continue developing software that will directly benefit their day-to-day practices.

This third scenario is probably the most important of all. Those law firms willing to invest in legal tech will have a greater influence in how that technology is developed. They will be able to influence the legal tech industry to innovate in ways they otherwise would not for lack of knowledge about what law firms need.

It is clear that the legal tech industry is undergoing its own evolution right now. New innovations are leading to new technologies while providers are coming up with new law practice management software applications that are changing the way firms do business. In the end, we have a whole new dynamic in which the legal industry and legal tech are both pushing one another forward.

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