Legal Tech Blog

While there are many applications for time tracking and accounting for law firms, some law firms insist on working with Quickbooks. Quickbooks is a great piece of software, I'm just not convinced that it's the best for law firm time tracking, accounting and billing,...

It's true, there are firms out there with no firm data backup plan. Of course they never plan for their server to go down but with IT you have to expect the unexpected. Here's some history. This client had a 12 year old server and at some point purchased an external...

The Ultimate Disaster Recovery Solution for Law Firms BDR (Backup Disaster Recovery) solutions are the latest craze for the past 2 years and they are most definitely the best form of disaster recovery aside from moving your entire infrastructure to the cloud. With our...

There is a new breed of attorney out there, more tech savvy and taking advantage of the technology available. We find that law firms are often a mix of attorneys who adopt technology to aid in their work and attorneys and paralegals who "repel technology" as a client...

We work with a lot of young attorneys within larger law firms. It's only natural to think that some of these attorneys will eventually go off on their own to start new firms, often this is how it's done. We found this great article @ jdblogger.com that explains 10...

Here's part 2 of the "Ten Tips for Starting Your Own Law Firm. Again, this is from an article that we found over at jdblogger.com. Great website for attorneys who are looking to do their own marketing & social media/blogging. Original article can be read...

Often times when we are asked to give pricing on a backup or disaster recovery solution the client really does not know what they are asking for. They may know what a backup is but they are often wrong when they try to explain what they think a disaster recovery...

Microsoft has recently released a version of office for 365 users called Microsoft Office for 365 Subscribers. The app is for Apple devices and is just a really stripped down version of what your used to working with. The app really is not like having a full version...

When we say never marry your IT company, we mean never be put in a position where if you want to leave them, you would lose services that your law firm depends on. Just live together and keep everything separate, own your service accounts, have them in your firms...

Since we're an IT services company that focuses on law firms and law firm tech, we've often seen the need for law firms to archive their emails for legal reasons. For those of you who are not hip to archiving, here's what archiving is. Archiving is when you remove...

Last week we signed a brand new law firm that was in need of a serious IT overhaul. Whenever we meet potential clients we always ask why they are looking to switch. In this case, they explained that during hurricane Sandy, their current IT company didn't even reach...

Just this past weekend alone our techs worked on 3 mail migrations to the cloud for 3 law firms. Law firms are becoming more aware that simple GoDaddy email accounts just won't cut it. In fact, when I asked one of our new clients why they finally chose to move to a...