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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What did the article’s authors mean by ‘platform-ization’ of legaltech? They were referring to the fact that case management software in the modern era is based on a platform model. In other words, software developers are no longer looking at individual applications with limited function. Instead, they are building all-in-one solutions combining all necessary function using the same underlying structure and data.

NuLaw is an example of a case management software built as a platform. It is built on the popular Salesforce CRM platform. We chose Salesforce as our foundation because it offers a tremendous level of power, productivity, and forward-thinking technologies that we believe will be critical to powering case management software for years to come.

Why did we build NuLaw as a platform? For the same reasons so many others are doing the same. Here are three of those reasons:

1. Greater Efficiency in the Office

Law firms still operating with legacy software find themselves in a familiar trap: they have one piece of software for billing, another for calendaring and scheduling, another for tracking time, and yet another package for managing cases. All four software packages are functional, but they are also inherently limited.

This creates a tremendous amount of inefficiency due to the fact that individual software packages cannot communicate with one another. There are also issues with updates, cross compatibility, and so forth. A platform solves the inherent problems of legacy systems by pulling everything together. This increases efficiency in the office.

2. Collaboration Outside the Office

Building case management software as a platform extends that same efficiency to the outside world. This encourages collaboration. How so? First, it invites clients and their attorneys to work together through online means as a case progresses. Next, it allows for connection between law firms and local courts for the purposes of electronically filing documents.

Third, the collaborative nature of the platform model allows attorneys to communicate with others, share documents, work on research and discovery together, and so forth. It allows like-minded attorneys to collaborate on cases even if they aren’t located in the same town.

3. Leveraging the Latest Technologies

Finally, modern case management software goes way beyond managing individual cases from initial consultation to conclusion. By building software as a platform rather than a series of individual applications, we are able to combine basic case management function with the latest technologies leveraged to improve everything from performance to customer satisfaction.

For example, NuLaw makes use of artificial intelligence and deep learning to improve case acquisition. It utilizes unstructured data to predict case outcomes. It utilizes deep learning to analyze court decisions and digital evidence. All of this data can be interconnected to serve the needs of every individual in the law office.

The long and short of it is that the platform model allows for so much more function. It allows for tremendous innovation as well, keeping NuLaw and other similar products at the cutting edge of legal practice and case management. We could have developed NuLaw as a series of individual apps plugged into a single solution as modules. However, we chose to go with the platform model. It is a superior model that provides the foundation for what we believe is the best case management software in the industry.

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