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10 Smart Back-To-School Tips For Divorced Parents

MyLegalAssistants

Back-to-school season is stressful for all parents but it’s a little more complicated when you’re divorced: Who’s doing the annual trek to Target to load up on school supplies — and more importantly, who’s paying? Create a shared Google calendar to keep everyone in the loop. Are both of you listed on important school forms?

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How to Use Technology for Good Co-Parenting

MorneauLaw

Schedules Schedules before a divorce can be extremely hectic. Schedules after a divorce can be even more difficult to manage. Shared Calendars Shared calendars are widely used in the workplace and can be extremely beneficial to parents who need to keep track of their child’s busy schedule.

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How Using Latest Technology Can Lower Stress During Your Child Custody Lawsuit, by J. Benjamin Stevens, South Carolina Family Law Blog (with hat tip to Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips)

The Researching Paralegal

It happens all too often, and punches a divorce client’s button every time. Online portals, such as Our Family Wizard , provides a color-coded calendar and message board for the parents. The calendar helps to avoid miscommunication about things such as appointments, visitation schedules, and school events.

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Why is Legal Docketing Important?

MyCase

On the other hand, a small family law firm could leverage a much simpler docketing system that focuses on calendaring. If you’re trying to achieve a positive outcome for a case or matter (such as a patent application, divorce, or personal injury claim), missing a deadline is disastrous. Calendaring Software.

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5 Tools to Spark Content Ideas for Your Law Firm Blog

The Rainmaker

This is why creating an editorial calendar for your blog is so important. in your content calendar. For example, if you practice family law, you know that divorce and parenting topics are popular around the Christmas holidays. But creating good, consistent content is not easy.

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Five Things You Can Do to Help Keep Your Malpractice Insurance Premium in Line

ALPS

Insurers prefer to insure firms that consistently use engagement and closure letters, rely on effective rules-based calendaring and docket control systems, have deployed a state-of-the-art conflict checking system, and regularly conduct file reviews just for starters. Here are a few ideas as to how to do this.

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Examples of Automated Legal Workflows for Law Firm Efficiency 

CARET Legal

Schedule follow-up: Automatically send out invites (that sync to your calendar) for client conferences 60 days after a hearing. Family Law Firms: Divorce In family law firms , handling a client’s divorce is a common attorney task. Accounting: Automatically prepare and file accounting documents 30 days after hearing.