Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Your cubicle used to be your little chunk of the universe, with sticky notes all over the whiteboard, that one calendar with pictures of Turks & Caicos and your favorite coffee cup, left behind when you were sent home for 43 years. You’re so excited! But when you get there, your cubicle is empty.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Add in client expectations, billable hour requirements, and work-from-home distractions, and it can feel nearly impossible to stay focused on what matters to us. Thankfully, things can and do get better when we live and work with intention. Schedule these tasks in your calendar. What Is Intentionality?

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The holidays were over, the calendar had turned to a new year. Routines of work, school, family and other obligations were clicking back into place. That fantasy, the one that goes, “wouldn’t it be great to work from home and skip the commute?” For the foreseeable future, it’s the way we work now.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 11, 2022

Many paralegals have now migrated to the work-from-home status permanently or part-time. Many paralegals have also experienced “burnout” due to the pressures of the times while lacking some tools to sustain productivity and efficiency in our newly set up home offices. The main use I have for Notion is as a daily log.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 26, 2022

One of the biggest obstacles to pursuing outside interests is that the line between work and personal life has blurred. This is especially true when working from home. If work never really ends, you can’t detach yourself from it for long enough to work on a hobby. Have a shutdown routine.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As we transition to more permanent work-from-home schedules, the lack of supervision and a diminished sense of community could have bigger consequences. In our latest episode, Mark explores a few risky scenarios that have played out recently while lawyers work from home. There is no work-from-home exception.

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CARET Legal

JULY 10, 2024

Calendar Integration When you schedule an event in your mobile practice management software, the software automatically syncs this information with your connected calendars, ensuring that all your commitments are visible in one place. Calendar integration makes it easier to manage your time effectively and prioritize what matters most.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 6, 2022

We’ve built sites to collaborate with both clients and co-counsel to manage pleadings, trial calendars, task lists, budgets and correspondence across multiple active matters through one virtual dashboard. The challenge with these sorts of efforts is always driving behavioral change to get people to use the site.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 23, 2021

Using a calendar program such as Calendly to allow potential clients to schedule their initial consultation not only makes it easy to find a mutually convenient appointment time but also sends automatic reminders to the potential client to reduce missed appointments and to make rescheduling easier. I was working from home and online.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Having the ability to work from home while accessing software and files in the office was a clear advantage during the pandemic. Calendaring. For many years the most important software for solos and small firms continues to be word processing, calendaring, and time & billing. Rules-based Docketing/Calendar.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Dennis Kennedy and I also use Teams to facilitate our podcast and bookwriting efforts, and we used Teams to write the latest edition of our book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, Work from Home Edition.”

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Chugh LLP

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As employees work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employers may provide electronic notice of LCA filing via direct email, their intranet system, or hard copy mailings. [1] The PAF should be in an easily accessible location, such as the reception area, so that anyone may request to view the files if desired.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 2, 2017

Whether it is from a coffee shop, home office, or library, more people than ever are working remotely. If this is your company and you are already working from home, or thinking about starting to do so, what are the main considerations and best practices to put into place? Success in Your Remote Workplace.

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MyCase

JULY 26, 2022

For instance, there are no commutes, no traffic, very little waiting, and if a client misses an appointment, it doesn’t take much to close our calendar and get back to work. Beyond those, I do have a few tools that I absolutely love and make any attorney’s life easier, especially a virtual attorney: Calendaring Software .

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MyCase

MAY 11, 2022

Everyone gives a different explanation—ranging from the pre-recorded phone greetings you hear when you call your pharmacy to the remote worker drafting your Facebook posts to the work-from-home paralegal who onboards newly retained clients. Calendaring. Inbox and calendar management. Inbox management.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dealing with The New Stressors of Remote Work. While remote work has removed some serious stressors, such as long commutes, it has also added some new ones to the mix. For example, when working from home, legal practitioners might struggle to separate their work lives from their home lives.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

There are days where I don’t have to talk to my assistants at all — particularly when they’re working from home.”. Much of Rahlita’s behind-the-scenes work—calendaring, task delegation, and staff communication—happens in MyCase, necessitating significantly less staff resources, let alone staff themselves. “I

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It’s a law practice management software so that you can really do everything from billing, to client intake, to getting payments and everything in between. Obviously, if you’re working from home or working remotely, you need something to kind of help you out there. Really helpful during these times.

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Blumberg

APRIL 13, 2021

Scanning – Use scanning apps like Abby Fine Scanner, Adobe Scan, Apple Notes, and Evernote Scannable to create a PDF from your smartphone. Scheduling – Use the scheduling features of Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar to arrange meetings, assign office space, or book conference rooms.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 10, 2023

What do you consider the most and least secure means of communication available to you from your home office? DS: My home office is run through a secure connection to cloud storage and services. For me, there is no difference between working from home or the office. Just my Outlook calendar.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a surge of working from home and virtual working as a result of the pandemic, and many firms may still be operating like that. Project management still shows growth potential as 31% of respondents indicated access to that software this year, up from only 27% in the previous year. Legal-Specific Software.

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Rocket Matter

JULY 18, 2023

Invest in universal access If we’re honest, the ability to work from anywhere plays a significant role in many attorneys’ decisions to open a solo firm. While cloud-based computing programs like Outlook and Google Drive make working from home or the beach easier for everyone, they aren’t designed for law firms.

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Lawfecta

OCTOBER 18, 2020

You can even add a widget to allow clients and prospects to text you right from your website. You can integrate either one with your online calendar, and then simply send others a link so they can view your availability. You want employees to be able to work from home, vacation, and anywhere, so provide them with laptops and tablets.

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The Process Street

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Not everyone has the luxury of a separate office space in which to work – especially folks living in urban environments – and we’ve all had to make do with what we have available, for better or worse. Before the pandemic, only 20% of employed adults in the US worked from home. Be flexible yet organized.

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The Process Street

JANUARY 20, 2021

This section explains GitLab’s marketing strategies, the team’s aspirations, and issues they face – you can even view the marketing calendar! I am still not 100% sold… Let’s say that this afternoon I get informed that here at Process Street we are embodying the radical transparency company culture from next week.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 28, 2022

A legal practice management software can allow your attorneys, paralegals, and staff to collaborate more effectively on matters, even if they’re working from home or while traveling. Calendaring tools and Kanban boards to help you stay on top of pressing matter deadlines. Rocket Matter simplifies law firm collaboration.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

July 28 : Clio acquires the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules. 23 : Centerbase , a Dallas company providing legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, receives a growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners , a firm that invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies.

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Lawfecta

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Have more to-do lists. Reach out to your friends. TIP: remember that panic attacks cause no harm and it is our body and mind’s way of trying to protect us.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But, they may be able to work remotely at various times around those responsibilities. An estate lawyer, on the other hand, will typically have fewer in-person commitments and may be able to work from home much more often. In fact, there are many benefits to lawyers working remotely. Calendaring.

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ALPS

MAY 31, 2022

I mean, I keep talking about the fact that we have to remember that we were in a pandemic, this wasn’t just about a grand experiment with work from home. They didn’t have to deal with micro inequities as much if they were working from home during this time. they got a break from that.

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MyCase

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You could take an ultra-budget approach that involves networking, fielding phone calls from your personal cell, working from home, and using an existing laptop. Without setting up the right tools and organizing your law firm from day one, administrative tasks can quickly become unmanageable.

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ALPS

JANUARY 27, 2021

I’m just curious particularly with your social work background, just your perspective on… people are evaluating all parts of their family and their professional life, their relationships, and how that ultimately… I’m sure there will be books and book written post pandemic about the impacts of that as a reflection point.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

July 28 : Clio acquires the automated court-calendaring company CalendarRules. 23 : Centerbase , a Dallas company providing legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, receives a growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners , a firm that invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

While a simple webcam or mobile device camera may be sufficient when you work from home, as more folks get back to the office, is there a better way for group conferencing? Calendar displays your Outlook calendar, along with any shared calendars from Teams. Nerino Petro Jr.:

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ALPS

AUGUST 10, 2022

So if you are someone who is Brown or Black, or from one of these historically marginalized communities, and you are going to work during the pandemic, or you’re working from home, you are more likely to have family members who have been directly impacted by COVID, right?

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The Process Street

APRIL 26, 2021

These days, I find myself talking with friends and family about Zaps [on the workflow automation app, Zapier], processes, and workflows – a nice change from topics around the global pandemic! I applied to Process Street partly because of the ability to have a flexible work-from-home setup, but also because it’s just a cool company.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 24, 2022

Here are the ins-and-outs of some cool tools from Sheila Blackford, Brett Burney, Tom Lambotte, Sharon Nelson and John Simek, and Camille Stell. Brett Burney: Tickling Your To-Dos and Collaborating on Calendars. When someone needs to schedule a call, I send them a Calendly link and they pick a time that works for them.

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