During the program “Weathering the Storm: Managing Your Firm Through an Economic Downturn” Erik Mazzone and Catherine Sanders Reach presented “Free and Cheap Technology for Thrifty Lawyers“. As law practice becomes increasingly technology-oriented, law firms spend on technology has also increased to command an ever-larger share of the budget. We can’t turn back the clock and practice without all the…
Microsoft 365 has been slowly rolling out Loop, the collaboration tool, in business subscriptions. Challenging tools like Notion, Loop has the advantage of already being in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem used by many law firms. Loop lets you create collaborative clauses, checklists, and other disembodied elements not tied to a particular email or document. Update it in one place and…
Google Chrome is still the undisputed browser champion in North America for desktop/mobile/tablet on Mac/iOS, Windows and of course Android at 53% of the market share. Safari has 30% of the market share. Microsoft’s Edge trails at a far distant 3rd place at a little over 8%. However, Edge has some new features, including a “work” browser version for Microsoft…
Every week subscribers receive the ICYMI enewsletter from the NCBA Center for Practice Management. The newsletter highlights tips, tools, trends, and techniques to help your law practice. Following are a few popular quick tips from the past issues of the newsletter. How to Enable Ransomware Protection Feature on Windows 10 If you have a computer running Windows 10, Microsoft’s remarkably robust…
Microsoft 365 users have access to Power Automate (f/k/a Flow) to create automated workflows that can save you time and help with efficiency and productivity in your firm, company or organization. They work with the Microsoft 365 applications, as well as many other applications outside of the Microsoft ecosystem. Once you get the hang of creating “flows” you can start…
There are many ways to store and share documents online. Box, Dropbox, ShareFile, and Google Drive are but a few of the popular products. For firms using Microsoft 365 you already have an online document storage tool built in – MS OneDrive. What can you do with OneDrive, what are the pros and cons, what is the difference between it…
If you have explored tools to create task lists, with assignments and deadlines, you know that there are a whole lot of options on the market. If you are curious if a project management tool would help your firm stay on top of multiple matters from a task-based perspective, as well as monitor your team’s progress without micro-management, consider starting…
By Catherine Sanders Reach Finding a mutually available time to meet with multiple busy people including clients, colleagues and other parties used to mean a lot of negotiation and multiple emails. Then tools like Doodle and FreeBusy came along to make scheduling much easier. Now users of Microsoft Office 365 can take advantage of a built-in polling tool called FindTime…
Over the past four years the NCBA Center for Practice Management blog “From the Center” has provided tips and tools that can help your firm with productivity and client service. Here are some of those that are small but mighty. You can adopt these tools into your practice without a huge investment or tech overhaul. A Better Way to Find…
A lot of valuable information is passed to and received from clients via email. The problem is that the email communication a.) may need to be shared among others in the firm b.) is stored in each recipient’s mailbox. The good news is that there are a variety of ways to ensure client communications are stored with the client file…