You know the type. The first thing they ask is: “how much is this going to cost?”
And you know what to expect while you’re working the case, too:
The truth is, these clients are often…
I was a young lawyer when the dot com boom was in full swing and when that bubble finally burst. Fortunately, I was working for a large firm at the time, so I was able to see first-hand how a successful law firm weathers fluctuating market conditions.
The shared wisdom in our firm was this:…
As a former attorney, I’ve worked with a lot of paralegals – some of them among the brightest legal professionals I’ve ever encountered. And, as a current writer on legal topics, I hear from paralegals all the time in response to one article or another.
In other words, I have a longstanding relationship with these…
The legal industry continues to face challenges and opportunities that demand innovative approaches to business management. To properly meet these challenges, law firms must adopt forward-thinking strategies to remain competitive. These strategies must combine robust planning with advanced technology to enhance efficiency, profitability, and client satisfaction. As part of InfoTrack’s very first Fall Double Features CLE…
InfoTrack’s Jeff Karotkin and Lydia Malone answered questions from legal professionals about how a Jan. 1, 2025 update to Illinois’ process serving rules would affect serves in Cook County.
On Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, more than 280 legal professionals with business in Chicagoland joined InfoTrack for an informative, free webinar on the impact of…
Introducing any new technology comes with risks. How do you proceed when you think a new tech tool will help your practice, but you need to minimize the potential for problems?
What you need is a proven strategy to test any new tech tools you implement at your firm.
Then, you need to convince the…
Are you looking to grow your firm and make more money? Good business intelligence tools can help you achieve those goals.
We talk a lot about legal technology on this blog — for obvious reasons. When it comes down to it, though, law firms are businesses. There are plenty of business tools that are well…
When clients hire a lawyer, they expect you to know your way around the legal landscape. Nonetheless, there are numerous factors outside of your legal expertise that can lead clients to question (or downright distrust) your competence.
Obviously, such doubts can severely jeopardize the attorney-client relationship.
In this post, we’ll explore eight critical factors that…
Working from home has become a new norm for many in the legal profession, bringing with it unique challenges and opportunities. This is especially for busy paralegals who — let’s face it — are tasked with phenomenally detailed and challenging work.
If you’re a paralegal working from home with kids, you’ve got a particular…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in the legal industry. Legal AI tools are more common than ever, and generative AI has stayed in the legal tech headlines since the 2022 debut of ChapGPT.
On the other hand, new AI legislation is being proposed, and many are concerned about the shortcomings and dangers of…
For hundreds of legal professionals, using the Florida e-Portal is a part of their workplace routine. If you’re one of those folks, you probably have a standard process you use to get things done.
What if Florida eFiling could take 30 seconds or less?
What if you knew that your eFilings were always going to…
InfoTrack is a tool specifically for law firms.
If you’re representing yourself in court and looking for resources to help you complete and file documents, follow all the right procedures, or navigate the legal system, your state has plenty of resources available. Here’s a list of resource centers in each US state to get you…
Without a doubt, the pandemic accelerated the use of technologies within the legal industry that had been languishing beforehand. Virtual courtrooms are among the best examples of this.
While a few courts were using remote technologies prior to the shutdown, today, virtual courtrooms are so popular that people who aren’t even connected to the justice…
You already added all your case information in your practice management system. What if your eFiling portal was smart enough to fetch that information and fill in those fields for you?
That’s what it’s like filing court documents with the new improvements in InfoTrack. But to get the maximum benefit from all this automation, you…
Law firms are highly competitive places. Anyone can succeed — so long as they’re constantly striving to be their best.
This ethos applies to you in legal support just as fiercely as it does the attorneys you work for.
If you want to stand out from your colleagues, though, you don’t have to make any…
If you use MyCase, you need to know about these lesser-known features. According to Lindsay Bushong, Manager of Sales Engineering from MyCase, too many users miss out on built-in functionality that can do all these things:
Lindsay says:
“A lot of folks…
