NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 20, 2019

A decade ago, lawyers had just one option for office space: a traditional lease. That’s a costly option, of course, and can be a barrier to entry, especially for young lawyers, looking to start new law firms. It’s also a scary, long-term commitment, potentially for up to f ive years, for any law firm.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Quite often, attempts to breach a law office’s confidential data are the product of meticulous research and preparation. This is why you can’t go about your business blithely, imagining that your law practice is too small for cybercrooks to bother with. On the contrary. The Bad Actors Know About You.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every year I write a post that highlights the mobile lawyering statistics from the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Not surprisingly, the number of lawyers working remotely has increased year over year as attorneys became more comfortable using the technologies that permitted them to work from anywhere.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The 2021 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report will be important historically because it gives us the first look at how lawyers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the 2021 results might be interpreted as another example of lawyers being late arrivals to technologies widely in use in other professions and businesses.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 29, 2022

The ABA reports that 60 percent of lawyers use cloud applications. The seismic shift toward a virtual workplace has presented a new question: does a law practice need a physical location? While you may miss the material and social aspects of the office, it is no longer necessary and often does not justify the expense.

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In back-to-back episodes featuring home improvement topics, Legal Talk Today host Laurence Colletti first speaks with code attorney Linda Pieczynski about the spike in DIY projects since stay-at-home orders began in March.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. If lawyers overcame their ignorance of tech, I would have thought, so too would they have overcome their bias towards it.

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How To Become A Paralegal

JANUARY 22, 2018

Work in a Traditional Law Office. One of the most obvious career options for paralegals is working in a traditional law office. A traditional law office is a great career choice for both new and experienced paralegals. Virtual Law Offices. Freelance Paralegal.

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ALPS

AUGUST 9, 2022

It has been several years since we wrote on the topic of physical security, but it seems like a good topic now that so many law firms are changing how lawyers work. While there are some law firms demanding that all their lawyers return to work, more and more law firms have settled into a hybrid workplace environment.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Because of the impact of COVID-19, the practice of law is changing – and quickly. By way of example, many law firms transitioned to remote working at the start of the pandemic and many continue to have work-from-home mandates in place. First you’ll need to prepare your office.

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MyCase

JULY 26, 2022

When we first talked, I wasn’t sure how this was going to work. Hiring a lawyer over the Internet. Most lawyers were rushing to learn about Zoom and e-filing—belatedly jumping on the cloud bandwagon. What is a Virtual Lawyer or Virtual Law Firm? I had finally done it : I became a “real” lawyer. .

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Now two years from the “shutdown,” lawyers are slowly returning to normal, or what some now are calling the “new normal.” Multiple monitors allow a lawyer to have multiple windows or apps open at once, obviating the need to ”open a window, cut text, close a window, and paste,” just to name one misuse of time.

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Blumberg

APRIL 13, 2021

Learn how to use apps with articles about best apps for lawyers , billing apps , software for working remotely , technology trends , work from home apps and working remotely as a lawyer. Goldblatt Mr. Goldblatt has authored numerous books and articles about marketing for lawyers.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For years, lawyers have strived to find the perfect “work-life” balance, only to have the proverbial boulder roll back down the hill. Based on the responses, it is interesting to note that almost 50% of the respondents who worked in a traditional office space leased/owned exclusively by the law firm did not return to that setting.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Research USA compiled data from 410 completed law office technology questionnaires to answer these questions. The purpose of this report is to analyze the current trends in technology utilization and satisfaction, and how that has differed from years past. Legal-Specific Software.

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Rocket Matter

JULY 18, 2023

But if you own a solo law firm, the reality is you do have to do it all, and you’re often doing it alone. And for most solo practitioners, that’s the whole point. Lawyers who go out on their own usually do so because they want the buck to stop with them. Those are very appealing messages. Determining your paperless processes 2.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 10, 2022

Check out these six benefits of running a paperless law firm. Running a paperless law office gives you that time. Secure file sharing means that your clients can receive, send, and sign documents securely from their home computers or phones and send them straight to you. A paperless law firm spends less money.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. If lawyers overcame their ignorance of tech, I would have thought, so too would they have overcome their bias towards it.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 31, 2023

The freedom to work remotely, at least some of the time, is an increasingly-common goal. More than half of attorneys who responded to the ABA’s 2022 Practice Forward survey said they worked from home half the time or more. 89% in private practice said they had the option of working remotely.

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ALPS

JUNE 22, 2022

So, [inaudible 00:12:28] translate this into your law office and working with you and your staff. If the first impression is really bad, that colored the entire rest of the experience with everybody else you work with, and I’m glad we got through it. So, some things that I think about, try to just be authentic.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In this guide you’ll learn how to maintain productivity while working remotely, centralize case details and internal communications, support strong client communication, and. MyCase launched a COVID-19 survey to determine how law firms were impacted by the pandemic. The New Virtual Client Experience: How Law Firms Must Adapt.

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