For law firms, streamlined, effective legal billing software is incredibly important, since the more efficient your firm’s billing processes are, the more quickly your firm will get paid. When legal billing processes run smoothly, invoicing legal clients can be a painless – and fruitful – endeavor. But if your firm is relying on clunky, antiquated software and paper systems to send out invoices and collect overdue legal bills, it can be a time-consuming waste of…

In a few of my recent posts I shared data on lawyer demographics, diversity, stressors, and future plans obtained from the recently released ABA Profile of the Profession 2021. This Report compiles data collected by the ABA from a number of different surveys, most of which were conducted in 2020 and 2021, and includes statistics on a host of issues relating to the legal profession, including lawyer demographics and diversity, the pandemic and…

   Capturing, invoicing, and collecting payment on your billable time can be easy if you are using the right tools. Join MyCase Senior Product Manager Sam Mallen to learn how you can use the built-in features of MyCase to easily capture more billable hours, get paid consistently without hassle, and save time week after week. Watch and learn how to: Capture time for all billable activities with Automatic Timers & Smart Time Finder Reduce…

We recently spoke with MyCase customers Vi Nanthaveth  and Catherine Gonzales of Nanthaveth & Associates, an Austin-based immigration law firm. They shared how the firm now has the bandwidth to meet up to 15 new clients per day with the help of MyCase. Here are some highlights from the video. __ Vi Nanthaveth: We are a comprehensive immigration law office. When we were still learning the system, and implementing new things into the office,…

We’re excited to announce the release of rules-based calendaring in MyCase! With this new integration, you can spend less time managing deadlines and more time on what really matters. Why Rules-Based Calendaring? Calculating deadlines manually takes a lot of time and can lead to errors, and missed deadlines can lead to malpractice. To complicate matters further, court rules and deadlines change often, which means that even more time is required to constantly re-visit whether court…

If nothing else, 2020 and 2021 have been years to remember. In a very short timeframe, the world has been through unprecedented change on so many fronts, and more is yet to come. Not surprisingly, the legal profession has not been immune, and lawyers and their firms have been impacted in many different ways. Work-from-home has become par for the course, and firms have incorporated remote working, cloud-based technologies into their law firms at rates…

No matter how you look at it, the pandemic had – and continues to have – a significant impact on the legal profession and the practice of law. Some of the effects were welcome, including technology and change adoption, while others were less so, not the least of which was the unexpected stress and disruption it caused. While we’re not yet on the other side of this once-in-a-lifetime event, the light at the at the…