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How Law Firms Can Take Advantage of Microsoft 365

This guest post is written by Hannah Rose at Dynamic Quest, one of the CPM Connect partners. Law firms are seeking out tools that help streamline and improve productivity. With innovation in cloud services and software development, specialized applications can help your law firm grow and succeed in the long-term. Incorporating cloud computing into your organization’s technology stack will not…

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Power in Your Palm: Microsoft Outlook and Office Apps

If you are a Microsoft 365 user then getting the Outlook and Office app on your smart phone is an easy decision.  Built for what you need from your small screen, these apps provide an amazing amount of functionality, including scanning, signatures, managing your calendar and far more. MS Outlook App Sure, you can get your Outlook emails on the…

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Don’t Overlook Change Management During Tech Upgrades

Are you taking your firm to the next level with technology? Moving away from servers and remote access to web-based systems? Switching office systems can inspire excitement in some, but others may try to derail progress. The resisters may ask “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?”. The plan to upgrade your firm’s technology should include a change management strategy…

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CPM Question of the Month: May 2020

Q: If I get Microsoft 365 for Business (formerly Office 365) do I have to use OneDrive to store my files in the cloud? A: No, you don’t. You can continue to store your files on your local device, on a file server, in a document management or practice management system, or with the cloud file storage provider of your…

Center For Practice Management, Cloud Computing, COVID-19, Productivity

Video Conferencing – You Have Options

During a time of social distancing law firms, courts, schools, and more are now meeting via video conference. Zoom rapidly became the platform of choice due to its low price point and ease of use. However, Zoom has been besieged with security issues, many of which are being rapidly addressed. There are still ways to use Zoom securely, and there…

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Hidden Windows 10 Features and Functions

Whether you are new to Windows 10 because you recently upgraded after support for Windows 7 was discontinued, or you haven’t explored more recent updates to the operating system, there are a lot of ways to enhance your computing experience. There are many enhancements including an upgraded clipboard, new screen capture, and dark mode. You can also enable speech recognition…

Center For Practice Management, Cloud Computing, Ethics, Productivity, Technology

Killing Time or Billing Time?

Recently a partner at a firm in Boston was suspended for overbilling. While by all accounts, she was an excellent lawyer and her clients were happy with her work, the methods she used to create her time entries were “inadequate, careless, rushed and error-prone” according to the decision by Justice Frank Gaziano of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The attorney…

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The Tale of the Stolen Briefcase

Your associate walks into the office with a panicked look and tells you that she left her briefcase in her car on the front seat for only a moment to run and get a coffee and when she came back it was gone. In it was her laptop and her smartphone. Your mind races. What should you do? Because your…

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Avoid Decision Paralysis: Choosing Practice Management Applications

Practice management applications are specifically designed to help law firms collect and organize information about clients and matters, give lawyers an “at a glance” status on a matter, run productivity reports, and make short work of many tasks. In the 2019 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report (forthcoming) fifty-three percent of respondents report the availability of case/practice management software at their firms,…

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Weathering the Storm: 5 Step Backup Strategy

Securing and protecting your firm’s data is essential.  Client files, important communications, and valuable work product often exist exclusively in digital format today, and thus a major data loss could have catastrophic professional and ethical ramifications. Whether you’re revisiting an existing backup strategy or seriously implementing one for the first time, this five step plan will help you make sure…