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Smokeball was founded by technology leaders with more than 20 years of experience in delivering impactful legal technology products. Our leadership continually strives to develop a company, culture, and team that share a profound love for the law and are compelled to help small law firms find success. With offices in Sydney, Australia and Chicago, we’re a growing company of more than 130 strong.
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An Introduction to eDiscovery: The Basics
Electronic discovery, also known as eDiscovery, has become an essential component of any modern legal practice. With the rise of digital communications and the increasing use of electronic devices, the volume of electronically stored information (ESI) has exploded. That means…
Building Your Legal Tech Stack: A Legal Technology Starter Guide
Legal professionals haven’t always widely accepted new technological trends. Steeped in tradition and wary of less-tested solutions, lawyers used to be much more hesitant to adopt anything that might disrupt their established workflows. But in recent years, technology has completely…
Legal Intake: What to Know and How to Improve with Legal Tech
Smokeball updated our legal software buying guide to reflect the realities and challenges of 2022. This blog post is Part 2 in a series. It’s never been a secret that law has historically been slow to evolve and adapt alongside…
Ensuring Smooth Real Estate Transactions with Standardized Legal Workflows
There are a lot of moving parts with real estate transactions. Your team needs to stay on top of inspections, negotiate terms, research liens, follow up on financing, and help your client successfully close. Challenges to creating templated processes for…
We Donated over $20,000 to Charity with Your Help
We recently wrapped up our fifth annual Season of Giving, a campaign to support Smokeball’s nonprofit partners doing important work in our Chicago and legal communities. At Smokeball, we believe that caring is not optional, so partnering and giving are…
Announcing DC Bar Member Benefit
Members of the DC Bar now receive a 10% discount on Smokeball’s legal practice management software. Click here to redeem your discount. Smokeball is thrilled to announce a new member benefit partnership with the DC Bar. With this new partnership,…
Setting up Your Family Law Case Workflows for Scalability & Success
Automating parts of your family law firm’s workflows can help increase productivity and profitability, attract and retain employees, reduce errors and roadblocks in production, and create uniformity in processes. Utilizing workflows in a family law case means you can assign…
3 Reasons Legal Technology Still Isn’t Working For Your Law Firm
As we look at today’s legal landscape, it’s clear we have advanced by what feels like decades in only a few short years. Since 2020, law firms have learned how to work from anywhere, provide clients with the same (or…
How Law Firms Are Shifting Their Ethics in 2023
If you’ve been a legal professional for a long time, you know that almost everything about running a law firm has changed in the last three years. From where we work to what we value, the pandemic and The Great…