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Beat the Spread: 3 Tips for Managing a Distributed Workforce

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

With work from home/remote work in full swing, employees may be pleasantly surprised by how productive they can be outside of the office. Meanwhile, law firm managers, who are used to hav ing butts in seats in leased office spaces, wonder what to do next. And, managers should e mbrace the change.

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5 Tips for Making the Transition to Virtual Law Firm Status

Attorney at Work

While the term “virtual” law firm may sound like everyone works 100% remotely, it’s not about where you are working. It’s about how you work together and how you deliver your legal services. This can help streamline how you manage client files and run your practice.

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Talking Points: Cloud Software Delivers Unprecedented Interoperability

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

That’s why, for example, law practice management software is so useful as a hub for law firm operations, because you can add and aggregate data from other systems into it, allowing you to select a client or matter and see, more or less, a complete rendering of the history of that case.

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Top Technologies That Increase Your Law Firm’s Profitability

LawTechnologyToday

Remote Work. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that employees can work from home and the firm can still operate efficiently. In fact, a study from Harvard suggests that at least 16% of employees will continue working from home after the pandemic ends.

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Most Law Firms Use Just Five or Fewer Unique Software Products, Smokeball Study Says

LawSites

Document management, 47%. Practice management or case management, 34%. Reputation management, 10%. Before COVID, the study says, 70% of survey respondents worked full time in the office. Now, 50% work in the office full time. According to the survey, the most popular are: Legal research, 61%.

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LTRC Roundtable Discussion: Legal Tech Trends in 2022

LawTechnologyToday

DK: My move to a Mac Mini with a large monitor reflects both the work from home approach and my reluctance to travel. RD: For my organization, 2021 was less about new technology and more about enhancing how we used remote work tools such as Office 365 and Adobe Cloud to continually improve our efficiency and security.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 60: The New Normal? Don’t Get Too Comfy…

ALPS

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.