Q3 Newsletter: The Latest from Your Law Office in the Cloud

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Join Legal Workspace at ILTACON!

 

Are you attending ILTACON in Las Vegas? If so, say hi to the Legal Workspace team in booth 636. All Legal Workspace clients are invited to join the Legal Workspace team for our VIP events at Border Grill at the Mandalay Bay hotel. RSVP to reserve your spot at happy hour or breakfast.


The Top-Five Critical Security Controls to Consider for Corporate Counsel Evaluations

 

Corporations consider many different factors when deciding whether to hire a law firm. Security wasn’t usually a major factor, and law firms used to fly under the radar when it came to questions about keeping client data secure. That has all changed. Legal Workspace’s CEO, Joe Kelly, shares the top five security factors Law Journal Newsletters.

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The Top Case and Practice Management Tools for your Firm

 

The Legal Workspace applications team weighs in on the top case and practice management applications for law firms. In this post, we evaluate PracticeMaster, Needles, Time Matters, and LawBase. However, give us a call if you would like to explore or need help customizing alternative options. Our apps team is certified in and has experience with most legal applications.

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How Much is Spam Email Costing Your Firm?

 

The average worker receives 121 emails per day, and nearly 50 percent of those emails are spam. It takes some time to differentiate spam from the real thing—about 16 seconds per email on average—which doesn’t seem like a whole lot of time until you start doing the math:

If your employees are anything like the average worker, your employees and attorneys spend 16 minutes each day, 80 minutes each week, 5.5 hours each month, and 69.3 hours each year managing spam email.

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6 Tips to Stabilize and Reduce Out-Of-Control IT Costs

 

If you feel like your IT costs have spun out of control, you are not alone. According to the “2016 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey,” firms of all sizes spend up to 10 percent of their budgets on technology. As IT infrastructure and technology eat away at the bottom line, many are seeking ways to control and stabilize IT budgets.

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Q2 Newsletter: The Latest from Your Law Office in the Cloud

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How to Safely Share Documents in the Cloud

 

Many of our clients use the cloud to share files. After the recent Harleysville Insurance Co. v. Holding Funeral Home ruling, we’ve put together a few tips to ensure our clients are safely sharing information. Read more >>

Your team at Legal Workspace can provide security training or document management tool recommendations.


California Lawyer: Is Technology Hurting Your Firm?

 

How do you know when technology is eroding your firm’s profitability? Legal workspace chats with California Lawyer to discuss preventing technology from hurting growing firms.

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The Texas Bar Journal: Winning Strategy

 

Legal Workspace’s CEO talks with the Texas Bar Journal about 5 ways firms can attract and land new corporate clients. Winning new corporate clients can be a challenging proposition for any firm in today’s legal profession.

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Your Software Can Do More Than You Realize

 

Most law firms use only use about 40 percent of the functionality of workflow automation or case management software. If you’re not taking advantage of triggers, checklists, calendaring and other built-in tools then your firm could be wasting billable hours. Our Legal Applications team can set up underutilized features and customization to help your firm achieve maximum efficiency.

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10 Tips To Steamline Case Management Software

 

Practice and Case Management applications empower attorneys to streamline their law firms. Over time, the databases need to be cleaned-up to preserve data integrity and accuracy. Here are 10 tips to keep your practice management database trim, relevant, and running at optimal speed.

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Feel free to reach out to our legal applications team to learn more about customizing, automating, or upgrading your applications.

Q1 Newsletter: The Latest from Your Law Office in the Cloud

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Spring Referral Deal

 

Do you know a firm that could use Legal Workspace? If you refer a law firm to Legal Workspace we’ll send you a $100 visa gift card.

Send your referrals to info@legal-workspace.com.

Offer ends June 1, 2017.


2 Easy Ways Legal Workspace Helps Users Tighten Security

 

Law firms have an obligation to keep client data secure. As hacking becomes an ever-increasing threat to businesses of all sizes—especially those that store and transmit sensitive data—two options, Two-factor Authentication and Email Encryption, can help put up barriers.

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10 Tips To Streamline Case Management Software

 

Practice and Case Management applications empower attorneys to streamline their law firms. Over time, the databases need to be cleaned-up to preserve data integrity and accuracy. Here are 10 tips to keep your practice management database trim, relevant, and running at optimal speed.

Read the article >>

Feel free to reach out to our legal applications team to learn more about customizing, automating, or upgrading your applications.


Support Whenever You Need It!

 

Legal Workspace’s helpdesk is monitored by experienced engineers capable of resolving desktop, practice management, legal applications, or workstation problems quickly and efficiently.  Our staff will troubleshoot your problem using the latest remote support tools and escalate the call, if necessary, to a specialist to resolve critical issues.

Monday – Friday 7AM – 6PM (MST)     Call (877) 713-8302, option #2

Should you have an after-hours emergency, please call the support line and a member of our technical staff will return your call within one hour.  Please note that after-hours labor rates and minimums apply. (877) 713-8302 | helpdesk@legal-workspace.com


Make Legal Workspace Better

 

If you see opportunities for improvement in either the service we deliver or product enhancements we are always here to listen. Email your feedback to feedback@legal-workspace.com.

Work Smarter, Not Harder: June 2016 Newsletter

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Work smarter, not harder

 

Christine Anderson recently joined Legal Workspace as our Legal App Specialist. Christine has over a decade of experience optimizing efficiency and profitability for legal firms. While she is familiar with most legal software apps she is particularly well-versed in PC Law, TimeMatters, Juris, ProLaw, Bill for Time, and QuickBooks.

Whether you’re looking to streamline accounting or improve productivity, there’s an app for that.

Looking for a better way to streamline case management?

  • Christine recommends Amicus for smaller firms and TimeMatters for larger firms. Both programs offer comprehensive, efficient case management to help you stay ahead of the workflow.

Do you need a billing system that also handles full accounting and financial reporting?

  • Christine recommends PCLaw or Tabs3 for smaller law firms and Juris for larger firms. With fully integrated time entry, billing, payables, receivables, and management reports, both of these will help you capture more hours, maximize revenue, and control costs.

Looking for an all-in-one solution for billing, accounting, and case management?

  • Christine recommends ProLaw, a fully integrated, robust, highly customizable system that allows front and back office to share the same client and case data.

If you’re interested in learning more about how legal applications can support your firm, please reach out to Christine at CAnderson@Legal-Workspace.com.


Legal Workspace Featured in Westlaw

 

Westlaw is an online legal research service for law related materials and services. Legal Workspace CEO Joe Kelly’s article about data ownership was selected for inclusion in the Westlaw database. The article highlights data-ownership rights in the cloud. With free and low-cost cloud storage services, lawyers might not even own their intellectual property after they upload it to the cloud. As tempting as iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, or other sites may be, lawyers need to do their research first before uploading.
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Client Spotlight

 

Has Legal Workspace helped your practice? We want to hear all about it.
We’re looking for clients who can answer a few short questions about how the cloud has helped their firm.
The answers will be turned into a case study and will position you and your firm as technology leaders and illustrate how Legal Workspace helps support your firm. Email TStork@Legal-Workspace.com to learn more and get started!


Support Whenever You Need It!

 

Legal Workspace’s helpdesk is monitored by experienced engineers capable of resolving desktop and workstation problems quickly and efficiently. Our staff will troubleshoot your problem using the latest remote support tools and escalate the call, if necessary, to a specialist to resolve critical issues.

Monday – Friday 7AM – 6PM (MST) Call (877) 713-8302, option #2

Should you have an after-hours emergency, please call the support line and a member of our technical staff will return your call within one hour. Please note that after-hours labor rates and minimums apply. (877) 713-8302 | helpdesk@legal-workspace.com


Make Legal Workspace Better

If you see opportunities for improvement in either the service we deliver or product enhancements we are always here to listen. Email your feedback to feedback@legal-workspace.com

Referral Special

Refer a firm or 2 or 3…Do you know a law firm that needs Legal Workspace? When you refer a friend or collage to Legal Workspace we will help them succeed and you will get a free month of service! Send your referrals via email to feedback@legal-workspace.com

Q4 Newsletter: The Latest from Your Law Office in the Cloud

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Security Enhancements

 

Intrusion Detection System – A couple of months ago during our maintenance window, we implemented new redundant firewalls and an intrusion detection system. An IDS monitors the network traffic in and out of Legal Workspace for malicious activities. By identifying suspicious patterns it can prevent an attack from someone or something attempting to compromise your system.

Another optional security enhancement we now offer is two-factor authentication.  For a nominal fee per user, this service provides a second layer of security to your remote desktop login.  The way it works is that anytime you enter your password to access Legal Workspace, you will receive a pop-up message on your mobile device, you will have to hit yes to let the system know it is in fact you that entered the password. While we do have controls in place to lock an account if multiple incorrect passwords are entered, this second layer of security will protect you if someone ever gains access to you password.  Contact our team to learn more about adding two-factor authentication to your Legal Workspace plan for a low monthly cost.


Support Whenever You Need It!

 

Legal Workspace’s helpdesk is monitored by experienced engineers capable of resolving desktop and workstation problems quickly and efficiently.  Our staff will troubleshoot your problem using the latest remote support tools and escalate the call, if necessary, to a specialist to resolve critical issues.

Monday – Friday 7AM – 6PM (MST)     Call (877) 713-8302, option #2

Should you have an after-hours emergency, please call the support line and a member of our technical staff will return your call within one hour.  Please note that after-hours labor rates and minimums apply. (877) 713-8302 | helpdesk@legal-workspace.com


7 Advantages of the Cloud for a Law Firm

 

Do you know anyone that is still deciding between a cloud-based IT solution and on-site IT for their firm? There are multiple reasons why moving your law office to the cloud will make technology more accessible, security more reliable and your IT budget cost efficient. Here is a great article about some of the advantages.

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More Law Firms Embrace Cloud-Based IT

 

More and more law firms continue to make the switch from traditional on-site technology to a secure cloud-based approach. A cloud-based work environment provides many benefits such as enhanced security, scalability, encrypted data and operational efficiencies that are associated with the ability to work from any device or location 24/7. With law firms experiencing a surge in progression to the cloud it is only a matter of time before traditional on-premises IT is thing of the past.

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Have You Seen Our Video?

 

See how our cloud-based solution simplifies the business of practicing law.
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Client Spotlight

 

Has Legal Workspace helped your practice? We want to hear all about it.

How has the cloud helped your practice? We’re looking for clients who can provide a short quote that shares their experience with Legal Workspace. In the end, your firm will be positioned as a thought leader by Legal Workspace with marketing activities to help increase your website performance and visibility for your law firm.

Email rblakely@legal-workspace.com to learn more and get started!

 

“I highly recommend Legal Workspace for the primary reason that it helps me sleep at night and focus on my cases. Being a small firm owner, it is easy to spend crucial time, money, and emotions on technological issues. Not us! Our technology system is organized, streamlined, accountable, and secure. We have the ability to have multiple users log into our system no matter where they are and I am never worried that I am going to lose data, calendar or contact information or files. I simply cannot imagine my practice without Legal Workspace.”

– Dustin Compton, Founder, Compton Law Firm

Make Legal Workspace Better

If you see opportunities for improvement in either the service we deliver or product enhancements we are always here to listen. Email your feedback to feedback@legal-workspace.com

Referral Special

Refer a firm or 2 or 3…Do you know a law firm that needs Legal Workspace? When you refer a friend or collage to Legal Workspace we will help them succeed and you will get a free month of service! Send your referrals via email to feedback@legal-workspace.com