Redefining Modern Practice Management: Practice Management Strategies

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Modern practice management offers a way for lawyers to use technology to their advantage to free up time, stay competitive, and build an efficient practice. Today’s modern practice management looks different than it did ten, even five years ago and the software available to lawyers has developed into a wide offering of powerful, easy to implement tools. Custom-created for the … Read More

Executive Perspective: CosmoLex’s Week in Canada

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This November, CosmoLex spent a packed week attending legal events in Toronto, Canada. As part of our commitment to provide Canadian lawyers with the latest in practice management solutions, we’ve been attending conferences and hosting events to help lawyers stay competitive and learn about what cloud practice management means for them. As President of CosmoLex, my goal is to make … Read More

CosmoLex Employee Spotlight: Jun Lee

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All of our previous Employee Spotlights have been on individuals on teams that support, demonstrate, communicate, and sell the CosmoLex product; but what about the people who actually build and develop the product? Without that team, everyone’s jobs become much more difficult. That’s why this month’s spotlight is on Jun Lee, Development Lead at CosmoLex. Jun has joined the team … Read More

Maximizing Your Time To Get More Billable Hours

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For lawyers, working long hours is often seen as part of the job. But are the hours you work really contributing to your billable hours and bottom line? It’s easy to get lost in the many, many tasks required of successful lawyers. Billing, research, client management, case details – all of these take time. Some to-dos are unavoidable and are … Read More

Cloud is Here and It’s in the Mainstream

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The majority of lawyers don’t think of themselves as business owners, but for solo and small firm lawyers that’s exactly what they are. But building a successful law firm goes beyond quality legal work. The skillset needed to truly be of service to clients, build a solid reputation and run a sustainable practice all comes down to technology – which … Read More

How Lawyers Should Decide What to Delegate

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To be effective as a lawyer, it’s just as important to know what tasks you should delegate as it is to focus on the critical ones. But how can you trust the work will get done right if you’re not doing it yourself? And how do you know what you should and shouldn’t be taking care of personally? Every lawyer … Read More

Tech Tip #276: Ethical Considerations For Outsourcing Legal Work

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Outsourcing can be a useful way to scale your firm’s business, especially since reports show that lawyers spend up to six hours a day doing non-billable work. It’s common to outsource work such as court coverage, brief writing, marketing, bookkeeping and more. Just make sure you take into account the ethical considerations surrounding outsourcing. Whoever you decide to work with … Read More

4 Apps to Increase Your Firm’s Productivity

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With only so many hours in the day, you need to make the most of them. A busy schedule, demanding clients, and a constant to-do list all require you to be as efficient as possible and we’re going to show you some apps to help you do just that. From staying organized to being one step ahead of your client’s … Read More

CosmoLex Employee Spotlight: Jon “J.D.” Robinson

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To be a product specialist, you have to possess a particular set of characteristics. Positioned uniquely as both customer-facing and behind the product, this role requires intimate knowledge of how the technology works and the value in each and every feature. Beyond simply having this knowledge, a product specialist needs to be able to communicate this effectively during a demonstration … Read More

How to Start Getting Paid What You’re Owed

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Unless you’re doing volunteer or pro bono work, you don’t want to work for free. Running a law firm is like running any other business in the fact that cash flow is essential to keeping the doors open.  Year-end presents a unique set of collections challenges compounded by an increased sense of urgency. Often, firms end up writing off their … Read More