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Insights and articles on legal practice management

Learn how cloud-based practice management software can improve your firm’s efficiency, profitability, and client satisfaction.


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Checklist: 5 Must-Know Cloud Security Considerations

Concerned about cloud security? Get the basics and understand how to evaluate the security of cloud technology providers.

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Matter Management Checklist for Overworked Attorneys

This checklist outlines how to streamline, and in some cases eliminate, the administrative tasks that take up your day.

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Mobile in Practice: The Benefits of a Virtual Law Firm

From cost savings to work-life balance, understand the benefits of virtual law office technology and why it makes sense for small firms.

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How to Select the Right Law Practice Management Software For Your Firm

This free guide outlines simple steps to take before selecting law practice management software, and ways to ensure your decision is right for your firm.

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Firm Central Ranked as a Best Cloud-Based Legal Practice Management Software Solution

The National Law Journal® has recognized Firm Central as a best cloud-based law practice management software solution for 2018. Read why Firm Central ranks as one of the best.

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Thomson Reuters Firm Central: Comprehensive Law Practice Management for Your Firm: Part II

Learn how Firm Central legal practice management software allows you to manage time and billing more efficiently.

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6 Recommendations for a Painless Transition to a Paperless Law Office

Are you on your way to creating a paperless law firm? Follow these six recommendations for a seamless and painless transition.

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4 Steps to Create a High Functioning Paperless Law Office

If you haven't made the change to a paperless law office now is the time. These 4 best practices will guide you to create and manage a paperless firm.

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Set Your Firm Up for Excellent Client Service from the Start

Learn how Firm Central can help you optimize your client intake process and save you time.

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How to Organize a Paperless Law Office with Firm Central

Organized files are key to a well run paperless law office. Keep your client and matter data, notes, tasks and more organized with Firm Central.

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4 Simple Steps to Create a Paperless Law Office

4 Simple Steps to Create a Paperless Law Office

In this webinar you’ll learn:

  • Why firms are choosing to go paperless and how they’re benefitting
  • What to consider when deciding if a paperless firm is right for you
  • 4 simple, actionable steps to transition your firm to a paperless law office

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Cloud Computing for Small Law Firms

Cloud Computing for Small Law Firms

Discover the benefits of cloud computing and the daily workflow efficiencies it provides to small law firms.

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15 Common Client Service Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Successful firms focus on clients. Good client service gives you a competitive edge, but exceptional client service gives you a very loyal client base and a steady stream of referrals.

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How to Track and Understand Your Firm’s Financial Health with Firm Central

The financial peformance data you need to make informed law firm management decisions has never been easier to obtain and understand.

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Give your Clients World-Class Service and Security with Firm Central’s Secure Client Portal

Can you quickly respond to clients with the answers they need? Using a secure client portal will improve your credibility by keeping your communications and documents organized, and help keep your clients happy.

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6 Ways Firm Central Revolutionizes Your Legal Billing Procedures

Are you happy with your law firm's legal billing process? If you still track time on paper or in spreadsheets it is time to consider a new approach.

Case study

From Day One, Firm Central Has Helped Steve Little Manage His Solo Practice

Before Steve Little decided to open his solo firm, he knew he needed a practice-management system that was more efficient and cost-effective than the disjointed system used by the law firm he was leaving.

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5 Important Profitabilty Factors for A Healthy Law Firm

Working harder but making less money? Analyze these 5 factors of profitability to run a financially healthy law firm.

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11 Steps to Manage Law Firm Client Receivables and Get Paid

Accounts receivable are the lifeblood of your law firm. Follow these 11 steps to minimize delinquent client payments so you can maintain a steady and dependable cash flow.

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7 Reasons Why Small Law Firms Need Law Practice Management Software

Law practice management software can solve many of the law firm management issues facing solo and small law firms.

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5 Tips for Ethical Legal Billing

Legal billing is a necessary but often dreaded task in a law firm. Make it easier by understanding your ethical duties and creating a proper system.

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8 Legal Billing Best Practices for Solo and Small Law Firms

In solo or small firms low realization rates are devastating. To combat this you must track time, send timely invoices, and use these best practices.

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Get Peace of Mind around Legal Deadlines with Deadline Assistant

Read how Firm Central's Deadline Assistant can give you peace of mind by easily managing all of your legal calendaring needs.

Case Study

For Solo Attorney Cheryl Bergian, Life is Easier with Firm Central

Is a cloud-based file-management system worth it? Hear what a solo attorney has to say about specific time-saving product capabilities that have transformed her practice.

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The Matter of Client File Maintenance in the Digital Age

Read how you can bring your file maintenance into the digital era with these tips.

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5 Self-Assessment Questions That Will Improve Your 2018

Take stock and set yourself up for a happy and successful new year with these five questions.

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How to Address the Most Urgent Issues Small Law Firms Face in 2018

Four of the nation’s top legal experts talk about how small law firms should be addressing and prioritizing their most pressing issues in 2018.

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Matter Management Tips Experts Say You Should Follow in 2018

Get advice on matter management best practices from four of the nation's top legal experts.

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Tips to Successfully Lead Your Firm Through Change

Learn valuable tips and lessons from successful attorney Mary Vandenack on how you can effectively lead your firm through change.

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7 Lawyer Time Management Issues and How to Avoid Them

While giving clients your best will make you an exceptional lawyer, it can lead to time management issues that will leave even seasoned attorneys stressed out.

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Why it’s so important to record your hours and expenses as you accrue them

Why it’s so important to record your hours and expenses as you accrue them

What is the worst that could happen? Understand major risks of inaccurate time records, and learn an easier approach.

Article

Mobile in Practice: The Benefits of a Virtual Law Firm

Read the free Thomson Reuters white paper, “Mobile in Practice,” and learn the benefits of a virtual law firm.

Checklist

Matter Management Checklist for Overworked Attorneys

Are you an overworked attorney? This matter management checklist will help you reconstruct – and in some cases, eliminate – the tasks that take up your day.

Checklist

Considering the Cloud? 5 Most Important Security Considerations

This cloud computing checklist will help you weigh your risk when choosing a provider for your legal cloud services.

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3 Red Flags Signaling the Need for Legal Technology Adoption

When "the way I've always done it" doesn't do it anymore.

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Are You Satisfied With Your Work-Life Balance?

Are You Satisfied With Your Work-Life Balance?

Watch this video and see how Firm Central can help you achieve a better work-life balance, get more done in less time, and improve your client satisfaction.

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How To Get Paid

Don't choose clients who are unable to pay you. Get additional tips and learn easy billing solutions for your small law firm.

Infographic

How to Overcome Small Law Firm Legal Billing Challenges

Learn common bill-killing mistakes small law firms make and how to adjust your billing habits for success.

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Going Mobile: Turn your law firm into a virtual law practice

Going Mobile: Turn your law firm into a virtual law practice

Take an interactive virtual law office tour and see how you can transform a traditional office space with mobile law office technology to reduce costs and improve quality.

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Top 10 Reasons to Love Firm Central: A Criminal Law Firm's Point of View

Top 10 Reasons to Love Firm Central: A Criminal Law Firm's Point of View

In this point-of-view article, a criminal law office in Florida explains why they chose Firm Central for their legal practice management software.

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Firm Central Case Study: Adopt a new practice management system with minor disruption and major benefits

Firm Central Case Study: Adopt a new practice management system with minor disruption and major benefits

Roeder Smith Jadin, PLLC explains how Firm Central helped to enhance client satisfaction, promote efficiency, and drive growth.

Infographic

Time and Money: Law Firms' Vanishing Resources

Although 96% of law firm leaders want to deliver legal services more efficiently, only 39% of firms are taking action. Learn how you can take action even with limited time and money.

Infographic

Clients are Changing the Rules of Engagement

Clients are changing the rules of engagement. View the infographic to find ways you can meet increasing client demands.

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Should Clients Own Your Personal Time?

Don't let clients interfere with your personal time. A cloud-based, secure client portal allows for efficient responses to prevent out-of-office conversations. Read more, and take back your time.

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Increase Billable Hours With a Technology Touch

Learn some basic techniques for spending as much of your time as possible on billable rather than nonbillable tasks.

WHITE PAPER

How to Run a Successful Small Law Firm: Practice Law While Managing Your Firm

This article provides three basic suggestions to help solo and small-firm practitioners manage the firm and serve clients at the same time.

Article

Is Confidential Data at Your Law Firm Really Secured?

Learn how secure cloud computing can help you prevent an unauthorized data breach at your law firm.

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How to Minimize Your Security Risk with Cloud Computing

What to consider for secure paper, server, or cloud-computing data storage methods.

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Did that email breach legal ethics?

Did that email breach legal ethics?

Understand the new ABA mandate for lawyer communication, the impact on unencrypted email use, and how law practice management software can help.

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5 Tips to Build Strong Client Relationships

Happy clients are essential to law firm success. Learn how to gain trust and maintain client satisfaction.

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Easy and Inexpensive Feng Shui Ideas for Your Home Office

Six quick, cost-effective ideas for your home office to help boost your energy and maximize productivity through the art of feng shui.

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12 Feng Shui Office Tips to Give Your Clients the Best First Impression

Read these easy-to-follow office tips and make sure you're providing clients with the best possible first impression, starting in your reception area.

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5 Fast, Easy Tricks to De-Stress and Relax at the Office

Learn more about easy things you can do to reduce stress at work and increase productivity, all from your office.

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Law Practice Management That Actually Makes Your Job Easier

Learn how Firm Central legal practice management software can help you get the job done, offering robust matter management functionality.

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You're Only Hurting Yourself by Refusing to Make Your Law Practice Mobile

See the most relevant benefits of making your law practice mobile with cloud-based legal practice management software.

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