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Law Firm Operations

Time, Billing and Payments: How to Streamline Them in Your Law Firm

Billing is an integral part of running the business that is your law practice. That’s why having legal practice management software with robust billing and accounting features is so important to day-to-day operations of your law firm, and for staying competitive in an ever-evolving legal industry.

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Law Firm Operations

The Trick for Missing Fewer Court Deadlines

For attorneys, missing a deadline is no laughing matter. Depending on the jurisdiction, rules and the judge, sanctions might be a stern admonishment by the judge, an order to pay some or all the attorneys’ fees incurred by the opposing party or, worst case, dismissal of a party’s lawsuit. If

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Matter Management

How Cloud-Based Apps Prepare Firms for Hybrid Work

We, as professionals, have been working remotely for years, long before the pandemic. Attorneys and paralegals have been emailing work home to themselves forever – despite IT’s pleas to not do that (you know who you are). The hybrid work environment is not new. What is new, however, is the

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Law Firm Operations

Improving Law Firm Business Development with Legal Technology

Law firm business development is a balance of relationship building, increasing revenue, and cross-selling. As firms continue to grow and evolve, it’s necessary to leverage end-to-end legal practice management tools to help you accomplish all three.  After reading this article, you will have a better idea of how to improve

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Law Firm Operations

Law Firms Are Implementing Law Practice Management to Build a Better Practice

AbacusNext recently commissioned a survey of law firms’ activity and decisions about software. The results revealed that 65% of all firms selected the need to increase efficiency and build a better practice as their motivation for adopting their practice management technology. Growing focus on efficiency Legal practice management software providers

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Law Firm Operations

Flat Fee Practices Should Still Track Time

In a flat fee arrangement, a law firm provides specific services to a client for a specified fee, no matter how many hours the attorneys spend performing those services. The legal fees are decided before the work is undertaken, making billing more manageable and reducing attorneys’ pressure to achieve billable

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