What software products are essential to your law practice?
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At Attorney at Work, law practice management adviser Jared Correia notes how in the last few years, the ABA and 20 states (see Lawsites) have revised their ethical guidelines to take technology into account.
“Lawyers who have traditionally prided themselves on buying a local software application with a single log-in and using it until the wheels fell off now have to be at least thinking about upgrading their technology platforms,” Correia writes. “In addition to the dictates of the ethics rules, the majority of states also have a data protection law, ostensibly applicable to attorneys.”
In his post, Correia lists nine different types of software useful to running a modern law practice, such as time and billing, data backup and practice management products.
This week, we’d like to ask you: What software products are essential to your law practice? Is there one out there that you don’t have but plan to acquire? Or is there a product you have purchased for your practice that you did not find useful?
Answer in the comments.
Read the answers to last week’s question: What are some of your go-to words and phrases in your legal writing?
Featured answers:
Posted by Indeed, I do: “I too am guilty of extensively using ‘indeed’ as a transition. However, when I have tried writing without it, the sentences and points seem disconnected and abrupt. Indeed, sometimes what we are told is a bad habit is actually a good writing tool.”
Posted by Abraxas: “I like ‘disingenuous’ and ‘counsel’s argument is imaginative and wrong.’”
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