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The Actionstep Blog, published by Actionstep, focuses on topics related to law firm management and legal practice efficiency. It covers updates and insights on legal accounting, trust accounting, and compliance changes affecting law firms. The blog also discusses technology integrations, such as with Xero accounting software and AI legal assistants, aimed at streamlining workflows and reducing manual tasks. Additionally, it highlights case studies of law firms improving client service and operational efficiency through practice management software. The blog addresses practice management automation, client communication tools, and innovations in legal technology for midsize law firms.
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We caught up with the team at Philips SpeechLive to talk about bringing voice productivity into the legal workflow, and how their integration with Actionstep is helping firms turn dictation into delegated, trackable work.
Can you briefly introduce your organization and the…
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New built-in AI layer unifies and activates law firms’ institutional knowledge, surfacing insights that help firms capture missed revenue, elevate expertise, and confidently execute client work
The first capabilities available through Actionstep Intelligence are AI-powered time tracking and business intelligence.…
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Most firms talk about AI adoption like it’s a purchase. Buy the tool, turn it on, done. I push back on that idea every chance I get. Becoming an AI-native law firm isn’t a single event. It’s a longer journey, and most firms are only at…
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In an insightful webinar hosted by Beth Thompson, VP of Market Strategy & Legal Evangelism at Actionstep, highlighted the hidden costs of inefficiencies in law firm operations because of sticking to the ‘status quo.’ The session “We’ve Always Done It This Way: The Hidden Cost of Status…
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The future of law is not under threat, but it is being reshaped.
There is a strong narrative in legal circles that AI for law firms poses an existential threat to the entire legal profession. Some are convinced lawyers will be replaced and that firms will become obsolete. That much of what we…
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There’s a phrase I hear constantly in my conversations with mid-market law firms. It surfaces in leadership meetings, in technology evaluations, in post-conference debrief calls. It is the most common answer I get when I ask why a firm is…
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We sat down with Greg Sando, founder of WorkCloud, to learn how they help law firms of all shapes and sizes trade in outdated, manual processes for smarter, more scalable ways of working.
Can you briefly introduce your firm and…