NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

Many attorneys will try to rush through the drafting and explanation of a fee agreement. Add a Document Disposition Clause. This is really helpful in terms of managing law firm logistics, because it’s a forcing function for generating a document management policy in a law firm, which would include a document destruction policy.

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CARET Legal

MAY 8, 2024

Let’s take a look at key areas where time is often wasted: Task Management Across a wide spectrum of legal practices, tasks are often assigned informally, through email or verbal communication. Calendar Management Scheduling is often handled individually, with each lawyer managing their own calendar.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Document management systems. Online systems for clerks of court. Some of the best paralegals I’ve worked with have been the ones who walk into my office a week before something is due and tell me they’ve already started drafting it. Drafting legal documents. Video conferencing software.

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LDA PRO

MAY 7, 2024

LDA pro provides clear communication about each step, from document preparation to court proceedings, keeping landlords updated and empowered. Integrating Technology They leverage technology to streamline communication and document management. Beyond Eviction Services LDA pro goes Beyond simply expediting evictions.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

Three primary areas of case management responsibility include: Draft pleadings and discovery. Draft pleadings and discovery. Draft pleadings and discovery. Many attorneys also rely on the paralegal to do the first-round draft of pleadings that will be filed with the court. Assist at trial. What does that mean?

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CARET Legal

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Legal contract software offers standardized templates that simplify the creation of new contracts, reducing the need for manual drafting. Centralized repositories make it easy to search for documents, while cloud-based storage allows attorneys to access contracts from anywhere, improving flexibility and collaboration.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 22, 2024

Intelligent email that automatically tracks time spent while drafting messages Task Management A robust task management system allows for the assignment, tracking, and prioritization of tasks within the firm. This feature should allow for easy customization of templates to cater to the specific needs of each case.

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MyCase

JUNE 7, 2024

The legal industry is currently experiencing a shake-up due to the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), especially regarding document management and automation. Significant Amount of Time Spent Searching for Information : Locating specific information within extensive legal documents is time-consuming.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 8, 2024

They might have to spend countless hours reviewing documents, researching case laws, drafting pleadings, and preparing for depositions. Billable Hours Recap report in CARET Legal Exhausting Case Work Consider, for instance, a lawyer handling a complex litigation case.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 12, 2024

Most spend a significant portion of their day communicating with clients, drafting and revising legal documents , managing multiple cases, conducting legal research, tracking billable hours, and creating invoices. Document automation features in law firm management software can simplify this process immensely.

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LawSites

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal , a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market.

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CARET Legal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Automated Contract Drafting and Review: CARET Legal’s document automation capabilities enable legal teams to streamline contract creation by using templates and AI-assisted review. This not only reduces errors but also speeds up the entire contract lifecycle, from drafting to execution.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Document management systems organize the electronic version of everything in the case, like the Microsoft Word documents that you are drafting, memos you are drafting, etc. Hopefully, this was covered in your technology class for your paralegal certificate program.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Modern all-in-one solutions currently offer a suite of essential features including: Case Management : Centralized dashboards provide a holistic view of case progress, deadlines, and activities, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

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CARET Legal

MAY 1, 2024

Contract Analysis Simplified In the realm of legal practices, contract analysis and drafting stand as pivotal yet time-intensive tasks. For contract drafting, CARET Legal offers an innovative solution. This empowers law firms to strategize their cases, manage resources, and advise clients.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 1, 2023

In your law firm, such activities could be cumbersome email management processes, haphazard document management, infrequent bookkeeping and accounting operations, and unplanned administration tasks. These tools bring in process and times efficiencies, and result in both short-term and long-term productivity enhancements.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 29, 2021

At this stage of your career, you might think reading documents is a baseline skill you’ve mastered just fine, thanks. But, whether you realize it or not, you probably spend more time reading documents in Microsoft Word than actually drafting them — especially if you have gone paperless. Read Aloud.

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CARET Legal

MARCH 27, 2024

The document management feature of our practice management software can significantly reduce the time spent on paperwork. It allows you to generate client agreements, court forms, and other legal documents using templates that automatically retrieve information from client and case records.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 24, 2024

Law firms can use this software to manage their court calendar , track billable hours and associate them to case records, monitor the progress of cases, and even manage client relationships. It encapsulates all these features, providing a comprehensive, efficient, and user-friendly case management solution.

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CARET Legal

JUNE 12, 2024

Process Changes: Legal tech solutions often introduce new, streamlined processes for tasks such as document management, time tracking, and billing. For example, instead of manually drafting invoices, your team will need to learn how to generate and send invoices through the legal practice management software.

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CARET Legal

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Time Savings and Efficiency : Automation significantly reduces the time spent drafting and editing documents. Enhanced Accuracy and Consistency : Manual drafting often introduces errors. To explore how CARET Legals tools can transform your firms approach to document management, schedule a demo today.

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CARET Legal

JULY 10, 2024

For instance, when you’re juggling multiple cases and deadlines, you can create a task for drafting a motion, assign it to a paralegal, and set a deadline. Document Management Document management in mobile practice management software relies on cloud storage and powerful search algorithms.

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2021

Among the leading technologies in which legal departments plan to invest are collaboration tools for document and contract drafting/reviewing, automation of document and contract creation, corporate e-meeting and e-voting management, workflow management and process automation, and document and contract workflow management.

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LawSites

JULY 25, 2023

Siskind said that the product is “the best approach we’ve seen” to using generative AI for document automation, because it gives the professionals in his firm a high degree of control over creating prompts and producing “consistently good complex documents.”

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 11, 2020

While a world free of lawyers will most likely never come to fruition (to many parties’ chagrin), new technology in the form of smart contracts is changing how legal matters are drafted. Legal departments drafting contracts need to consider details like this in advance. Creating Logic Parameters.

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LawSites

MARCH 5, 2024

But a survey released today finds that the majority of companies do not use CLM software at all, and of those that do have a dedicated CLM system, most use it only on a limited basis. The survey, Do You Need A CLM to Manage Your Contracts? Among the key findings: Document management tools prevail. CLM adoption lags.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Woodpecker is a one-of-a-kind Word-based, attorney-friendly legal document automation system that empowers law firms to standardize and productize their legal documents. Each of these acquisitions adds to MyCase’s incredible tech stack. And meet MyCase Accounting, which will be available in 2022.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

A document management system that organizes the electronic version of everything in the case, like the Microsoft Word documents that you’re drafting, memos, etc. As a litigation paralegal, it’s easy to get sucked into the never-ending cycle of document management or document chasing.

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LawSites

AUGUST 18, 2022

Last November, the document management company NetDocuments acquired Afterpattern , a no-code toolkit that law firms and legal teams can use to build apps and automate legal documents and workflows, promising at the time that it would be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform. Rich document management experience.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

For general information I’ve found it very helpful to create a first draft that helps organize my thoughts. Another experiment would be to have it draft a fairly standardized legal document like a Power of Attorney or incorporation documents compliant with the laws of a particular state. The site has been slammed.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Rich, easy-to-use features allow attorneys and paralegals to quickly draft responses, add objections, text or email clients and obtain electronic signatures directly from our platform. Universal Migrator Universal Migrator makes changing practice/document management systems a breeze.

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CARET Legal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Pre-Built Templates: Access a library of ready-to-use workflow templates for common legal processes, such as client intake, document drafting, and case management. Integration allows for the automatic transfer of data between systems, reducing the risk of errors and inconsistencies.

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CARET Legal

JULY 3, 2024

In law firms, AI has been particularly impactful by making document management and analysis processes more efficient. Artificial Intelligence (AI), at its core, is about creating intelligent systems that perform and/or expedite tasks that are traditionally manual and time-intensive.

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CARET Legal

AUGUST 13, 2024

A multi-layered reminder system acts as a persistent assistant, ensuring that important tasks are not forgotten amidst the chaos of a busy practice. For instance, an attorney might set a series of reminders for a crucial motion: two weeks before the deadline to start drafting, one week before to finalize, and the day before to file.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

You see it’s going to train you on the following: How to draft discovery requests How to draft discovery responses and objections How to prepare for depositions Now, it’s got much more than that in Module 4, but I just want to list these 3 for this example, or we’ll be here all day. It’s up to you. What are the results?

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CARET Legal

JUNE 10, 2024

Other benefits of using automation In addition to automating core processes, legal practice management software like CARET Legal includes: A Secure Communication Portal Our LPMS includes a secure client portal to communicate with clients and share sensitive information.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 13, 2023

For the technology that you are or should be using on a regular basis: We’ll start with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, your case management software, or your firm’s document management system. How long ago were they drafted? Are you sure things haven’t changed since then? Here’s why this is important.

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