At launch in 2013, Firm Central was a solid user friendly, cloud-based matter management software. Fast forward through five years of gathering customer feedback and making product improvements, to present day, where the robust end-to-end software consists of customizable matter management, sophisticated time & billing, legal rules-based calendaring, enhanced reporting, and most recently, built-in…
5 Model Rules and 1 Resolution You Could Breach if You’re Not Prepared for Disaster
By Cynthia Sharp, JD, LLM
You can’t control a natural disaster, but you can control how you prepare. Consider today’s legal practice management systems that make it easy to store and manage files, client information, and everything else that’s critical to running your practice, securely in the cloud. This technology is…
Law Firm Productivity has Dropped 9% – Find Out How to Make Up for It Without Longer Hours
One Hack Can Destroy Your Reputation and Your Business – Is Your Law Firm Secure?
Survey: Small Firm Lawyers Warming Up to Cloud, But Security Still a Concern
Small-firm lawyers are increasingly likely to use cloud-based services, but they remain concerned concerned about the security and confidentiality of their data in the cloud, according to a survey released today by LexisNexis Firm Manager.
The…
Florida Ethics Opinion OKs Cloud Computing
Florida has become the latest state to opine on the legal ethics of cloud computing. The proposed opinion follows other states that have addressed the issue in concluding that lawyers may ethically use cloud computing, provided they exercise due diligence to ensure that the cloud provider maintains adequate safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security…
Use of Cloud Most Common Among Small Firms, ABA Survey Says
Lawyers’ use of web-based software and services has grown only slightly in recent years, a new survey indicates. Growth in use of the cloud is greatest among solos and small firms and lawyers in these firms are more likely than their larger-firm counterparts to use cloud-based applications.
These are among the findings of the recently…
Mass. Ethics Panel Rules on Ethics of Cloud Computing
Read a post I wrote about the ruling here: Mass. Joins Other States in Ruling that Cloud Computing is Ethical for Lawyers.…
Presentation on Cloud Computing for Lawyers
Here are the slides from the presentation I gave Friday at the annual meeting of the Rhode Island Bar Association.
Cloud Computing for Lawyers: Practical and Ethical Uses of the Cloud …Rocket Matter Releases Version 2.0; Adds Document Assembly and Custom Fields
The Web-based practice management application Rocket Matter today released version 2.0 of its platform. The new version adds two notable features: document assembly and custom fields.
With this release, Rocket Matter becomes the only cloud-based practice management…
Two New Ethics Opinions on Cloud Computing
I have published a post about them at the Catalyst E-Discovery Search Blog: Two New Legal Ethics Opinions Suggest Clear Skies Ahead for Cloud Computing.…
For Third Birthday, Clio Unveils New Features, Cleaner Design
The Web-based practice-management application Clio marked its third year of business Oct. 1. Today, to mark the occasion, it announced new features and unveiled a cleaner design.
The most significant changes announced today are that Clio users can now integrate their accounts with three of the leading cloud-based document management applications: