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Under Pressure To Perform? Add CRM to Your BI Equation
It’s pure fantasy to think that to make more money, you just have to have more billable hours to offer clients. Here's how to succeed in today’s environment.
Under Pressure To Perform? Add CRM to Your BI Equation
It’s pure fantasy to think that to make more money, you just have to have more billable hours to offer clients. Here's how to succeed in today’s environment.
Five Ways to Prepare for 3E Templates
Is your firm moving its billing processes to 3E? Read tips from our 3E and Design Gallery specialists to help you save time and get a better end result.
Breaking Down the Complexity of 3E Data Structures
When going from Elite Enterprise to Elite 3E, firms must adapt to an increase in the number of data tables. Here’s what database administrators, finance teams, and accounting need to know.
Five Ways Your Firm Should be Protecting Client Data
Law firms are the hubs of a staggering array of confidential data. Protecting client data requires a holistic and layered approach. Here are five practical ways you can strengthen your firm’s efforts.
Need to Change Your PMS? Three Reasons to Consider ERP
A rising number of firms are opting for a move into the ERP world. Why? Here are three reasons firms are considering the road less traveled.
Two Key Roles Essential to System Conversion Success
Why is it that some system conversions go well, and some don’t? Ultimately it comes down to two critical areas. Here's how to address them.
Centralized vs Decentralized: Which Conflicts Model Is Better?
Conflicts and business intake are part of an expanding risk management and compliance function that spans legal business and operations. Explore if a centralized or decentralized approach works best for identifying and clearing conflicts of interest.
How to Build the Strongest Implementation Team: Who to Invite and Who to Avoid
Whom you choose to fill key roles and responsibilities can have a major impact on the outcome and ROI. Here are tips for forming the strongest team.
Better Strategic Planning: How to Be a Leader in a World of Lemmings
Firms are successful in strategic planning when deciphering reality from fiction using competitive intelligence and market awareness.
Five Ways to Reduce Post-Implementation Sticker Shock
Focus on these five areas to be better able to determine exactly what you’re signing up for to avoid surprises later.
Choosing the Right Methodology for Your Software Implementation
Law firms are facing the prospect of implementing new software more frequently. What is the best approach? Review some of the most common frameworks, methodologies, and tools.
Challenging Analytics Complacency: 4 Key Areas Law Firms Should Be Targeting
Too often BI is viewed in isolation. The real BI value is in a modern analytic framework that aligns with your firm’s performance management needs.
Better Strategic Planning: The Most Important Questions to Ask Before You Begin
Firms are successful in strategic planning when preconceived notions are set aside and instead, data and intelligence inform the process – beginning with a solid internal review.
Succession Planning: The Problem with Procrastination
The baby boomer generation is rapidly retiring – leaving a large void in the leadership of law firms that did not plan ahead for this eventuality. Given the potential business impact of losing clients when an attorney retires, it would serve law firms well to avoid procrastinating and begin succession planning now.
Six Ways to Engage Attorneys in the Use of New Technology
Law firms realize the greatest value from new technology when users actually use it – and use it well. How can you accelerate the adoption of new technology? Here are six methods that can help you achieve a positive outcome.
How Total Performance Management Can Help You Achieve a Stronger Bottom Line
By bringing together data, insight, and action, firms can take a total performance management approach to operations to achieve a stronger bottom line. See how you can make the most of new tools that enable improvement.
New BI Software? How to Overcome Obstacles and Improve Outcomes
Many law firms are taking a hard look at the software they’re using to surface information that supports strategic decisions. To improve a business intelligence (BI) software roll out, we suggest concentrating on these four key areas of focus.
Four Action Items to Streamline Project Lifecycles
As you consider implementing new software at your firm, adding the following four key action items to your to-do list can help you complete these core stages successfully.
Five Tips To Trim Software Implementation Costs
The writing is on the wall. It’s time to change practice management systems. How can you trim cost from your software implementation and still get the greatest value? Here are some tips on getting your budget just right.
How Solid is Your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan? See How Your Firm Measures Up.
It’s budget time in the legal services industry. How much should your firm earmark for disaster recovery and business continuity? This post offers guidance on what to factor into your 2017 plans.
Data Conversion: 4 Tips for Improving Validation
Data validation is an important part of the data conversion process when transitioning to new financial management software. To streamline this effort, validation should be a multi-step process.
A 7-Step Formula for Streamlining Your 3E Implementation
New technology enables better ways to complete tasks. Greater efficiency. Better visibility. Tighter security. But how can you streamline the colossal effort involved with implementing new practice management software? Here are the critical success factors I’ve gleaned from my years as a software implementation project manager.
Disaster recovery and business continuity: Why now is the time to prepare for the worst
Disaster recovery and business continuation procedures are becoming hot topics as law firms become increasingly dependent on data. For firms without a solid plan in place, the impact of unexpected events could be devastating.
Four Key Areas of Planning and Execution to Help Streamline the Transition of Technology
How can your firm make the most of a transition to new software? Focus on these four areas to uncover the strategic benefits of a system conversion or upgrade.
Account Termination Policies: How to Uphold Security When Employees Leave
Law firms go to great measures to protect digital assets from outside forces. This same diligence needs to be applied to uphold security in regards to your employee base - past and present.
Feeling Comfortable in the Cloud: Maximizing the Security of Digital Assets
More and more law firms are looking to the cloud to meet their computing needs. But many are hesitant to make the leap into the cloud. Why? Security concerns.
Time for New Practice Management Software? Stop Panicking and Start Planning for Improvement
In the next few years, almost every law firm will be in line for either an upgrade or conversion of their practice management system.
Still Relying on Gut Instincts? Why Now Is Really the Time for Data-Driven Business Decisions
When it comes to the practice of law, attorneys are taught to leave no stone unturned within a case. That same principle should apply to the business of law. Here's why.
Legal IT: Why Project Management Delivers the Greatest ROI
When planning a software upgrade or implementation, the industry rule of thumb is that you should allocate approximately 20% of the budget to project management.
Top 5 Traits to Seek in a Law Firm Business Analytics Solution
More than ever, law firms are focused on identifying ways to run and grow more profitably.
Legal IT: Five Essential Steps for a Successful Software Upgrade
The rate of technology change is increasing at an ever-accelerating rate.
How Important Are People? What Your Website Can Tell You
The key to being an effective leader is hiring the right people.
How Are Top Performing Law Firms Out Pacing Their Peers? See the Survey.
2016 Survey provides great insight into the trends that are reshaping the legal industry.
Keeping Pace With Market Trends. Is Your Firm Falling Behind?
Law firms must adapt if they want to keep pace with client demand and their own internal growth expectations.
Big Sale, This Weekend Only! Avoiding the Trap of Discounts
There are literally million dollar homes that are discounted by a dollar. Apparently to many that makes a difference.
Associate Bonuses and Hourly Thresholds: Why Now is the Time to Consider a New Reward System
To be productive members of the firm, it’s important that associates drive revenue.
Building a Better Business Development Strategy : Finding Your Sweet Spot through Business Analytics
The ability of your law firm to thrive is predicated on one key pillar of growth – you must develop both new and existing business.
Battling the Basics: Reduce Lag to Improve Year-End Numbers
If there’s one thing your firm can do to help improve your year-end numbers, it’s battle lagging time entry processes. Here’s why.
Under Pressure To Perform? Add CRM to Your BI Equation
It’s pure fantasy to think that to make more money, you just have to have more billable hours to offer clients. Here's how to succeed in today’s environment.
Five Ways to Prepare for 3E Templates
Is your firm moving its billing processes to 3E? Read tips from our 3E and Design Gallery specialists to help you save time and get a better end result.
Breaking Down the Complexity of 3E Data Structures
When going from Elite Enterprise to Elite 3E, firms must adapt to an increase in the number of data tables. Here’s what database administrators, finance teams, and accounting need to know.
Five Ways Your Firm Should be Protecting Client Data
Law firms are the hubs of a staggering array of confidential data. Protecting client data requires a holistic and layered approach. Here are five practical ways you can strengthen your firm’s efforts.
Need to Change Your PMS? Three Reasons to Consider ERP
A rising number of firms are opting for a move into the ERP world. Why? Here are three reasons firms are considering the road less traveled.
Two Key Roles Essential to System Conversion Success
Why is it that some system conversions go well, and some don’t? Ultimately it comes down to two critical areas. Here's how to address them.
Centralized vs Decentralized: Which Conflicts Model Is Better?
Conflicts and business intake are part of an expanding risk management and compliance function that spans legal business and operations. Explore if a centralized or decentralized approach works best for identifying and clearing conflicts of interest.
How to Build the Strongest Implementation Team: Who to Invite and Who to Avoid
Whom you choose to fill key roles and responsibilities can have a major impact on the outcome and ROI. Here are tips for forming the strongest team.
Better Strategic Planning: How to Be a Leader in a World of Lemmings
Firms are successful in strategic planning when deciphering reality from fiction using competitive intelligence and market awareness.
Five Ways to Reduce Post-Implementation Sticker Shock
Focus on these five areas to be better able to determine exactly what you’re signing up for to avoid surprises later.
Choosing the Right Methodology for Your Software Implementation
Law firms are facing the prospect of implementing new software more frequently. What is the best approach? Review some of the most common frameworks, methodologies, and tools.
Challenging Analytics Complacency: 4 Key Areas Law Firms Should Be Targeting
Too often BI is viewed in isolation. The real BI value is in a modern analytic framework that aligns with your firm’s performance management needs.
Better Strategic Planning: The Most Important Questions to Ask Before You Begin
Firms are successful in strategic planning when preconceived notions are set aside and instead, data and intelligence inform the process – beginning with a solid internal review.
Succession Planning: The Problem with Procrastination
The baby boomer generation is rapidly retiring – leaving a large void in the leadership of law firms that did not plan ahead for this eventuality. Given the potential business impact of losing clients when an attorney retires, it would serve law firms well to avoid procrastinating and begin succession planning now.
Six Ways to Engage Attorneys in the Use of New Technology
Law firms realize the greatest value from new technology when users actually use it – and use it well. How can you accelerate the adoption of new technology? Here are six methods that can help you achieve a positive outcome.
How Total Performance Management Can Help You Achieve a Stronger Bottom Line
By bringing together data, insight, and action, firms can take a total performance management approach to operations to achieve a stronger bottom line. See how you can make the most of new tools that enable improvement.
New BI Software? How to Overcome Obstacles and Improve Outcomes
Many law firms are taking a hard look at the software they’re using to surface information that supports strategic decisions. To improve a business intelligence (BI) software roll out, we suggest concentrating on these four key areas of focus.
Four Action Items to Streamline Project Lifecycles
As you consider implementing new software at your firm, adding the following four key action items to your to-do list can help you complete these core stages successfully.
Five Tips To Trim Software Implementation Costs
The writing is on the wall. It’s time to change practice management systems. How can you trim cost from your software implementation and still get the greatest value? Here are some tips on getting your budget just right.
How Solid is Your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan? See How Your Firm Measures Up.
It’s budget time in the legal services industry. How much should your firm earmark for disaster recovery and business continuity? This post offers guidance on what to factor into your 2017 plans.
Data Conversion: 4 Tips for Improving Validation
Data validation is an important part of the data conversion process when transitioning to new financial management software. To streamline this effort, validation should be a multi-step process.
A 7-Step Formula for Streamlining Your 3E Implementation
New technology enables better ways to complete tasks. Greater efficiency. Better visibility. Tighter security. But how can you streamline the colossal effort involved with implementing new practice management software? Here are the critical success factors I’ve gleaned from my years as a software implementation project manager.
Disaster recovery and business continuity: Why now is the time to prepare for the worst
Disaster recovery and business continuation procedures are becoming hot topics as law firms become increasingly dependent on data. For firms without a solid plan in place, the impact of unexpected events could be devastating.
Four Key Areas of Planning and Execution to Help Streamline the Transition of Technology
How can your firm make the most of a transition to new software? Focus on these four areas to uncover the strategic benefits of a system conversion or upgrade.
Account Termination Policies: How to Uphold Security When Employees Leave
Law firms go to great measures to protect digital assets from outside forces. This same diligence needs to be applied to uphold security in regards to your employee base - past and present.
Feeling Comfortable in the Cloud: Maximizing the Security of Digital Assets
More and more law firms are looking to the cloud to meet their computing needs. But many are hesitant to make the leap into the cloud. Why? Security concerns.
Time for New Practice Management Software? Stop Panicking and Start Planning for Improvement
In the next few years, almost every law firm will be in line for either an upgrade or conversion of their practice management system.
Still Relying on Gut Instincts? Why Now Is Really the Time for Data-Driven Business Decisions
When it comes to the practice of law, attorneys are taught to leave no stone unturned within a case. That same principle should apply to the business of law. Here's why.
Legal IT: Why Project Management Delivers the Greatest ROI
When planning a software upgrade or implementation, the industry rule of thumb is that you should allocate approximately 20% of the budget to project management.
Top 5 Traits to Seek in a Law Firm Business Analytics Solution
More than ever, law firms are focused on identifying ways to run and grow more profitably.
Legal IT: Five Essential Steps for a Successful Software Upgrade
The rate of technology change is increasing at an ever-accelerating rate.
How Important Are People? What Your Website Can Tell You
The key to being an effective leader is hiring the right people.
How Are Top Performing Law Firms Out Pacing Their Peers? See the Survey.
2016 Survey provides great insight into the trends that are reshaping the legal industry.
Keeping Pace With Market Trends. Is Your Firm Falling Behind?
Law firms must adapt if they want to keep pace with client demand and their own internal growth expectations.
Big Sale, This Weekend Only! Avoiding the Trap of Discounts
There are literally million dollar homes that are discounted by a dollar. Apparently to many that makes a difference.
Associate Bonuses and Hourly Thresholds: Why Now is the Time to Consider a New Reward System
To be productive members of the firm, it’s important that associates drive revenue.
Building a Better Business Development Strategy : Finding Your Sweet Spot through Business Analytics
The ability of your law firm to thrive is predicated on one key pillar of growth – you must develop both new and existing business.
Battling the Basics: Reduce Lag to Improve Year-End Numbers
If there’s one thing your firm can do to help improve your year-end numbers, it’s battle lagging time entry processes. Here’s why.
Under Pressure To Perform? Add CRM to Your BI Equation
It’s pure fantasy to think that to make more money, you just have to have more billable hours to offer clients. Here's how to succeed in today’s environment.
Five Ways to Prepare for 3E Templates
Is your firm moving its billing processes to 3E? Read tips from our 3E and Design Gallery specialists to help you save time and get a better end result.
Two Key Roles Essential to System Conversion Success
Why is it that some system conversions go well, and some don’t? Ultimately it comes down to two critical areas. Here's how to address them.
Challenging Analytics Complacency: 4 Key Areas Law Firms Should Be Targeting
Too often BI is viewed in isolation. The real BI value is in a modern analytic framework that aligns with your firm’s performance management needs.
Six Ways to Engage Attorneys in the Use of New Technology
Law firms realize the greatest value from new technology when users actually use it – and use it well. How can you accelerate the adoption of new technology? Here are six methods that can help you achieve a positive outcome.
How Total Performance Management Can Help You Achieve a Stronger Bottom Line
By bringing together data, insight, and action, firms can take a total performance management approach to operations to achieve a stronger bottom line. See how you can make the most of new tools that enable improvement.
New BI Software? How to Overcome Obstacles and Improve Outcomes
Many law firms are taking a hard look at the software they’re using to surface information that supports strategic decisions. To improve a business intelligence (BI) software roll out, we suggest concentrating on these four key areas of focus.
Time for New Practice Management Software? Stop Panicking and Start Planning for Improvement
In the next few years, almost every law firm will be in line for either an upgrade or conversion of their practice management system.
Legal IT: Why Project Management Delivers the Greatest ROI
When planning a software upgrade or implementation, the industry rule of thumb is that you should allocate approximately 20% of the budget to project management.
Top 5 Traits to Seek in a Law Firm Business Analytics Solution
More than ever, law firms are focused on identifying ways to run and grow more profitably.
Legal IT: Five Essential Steps for a Successful Software Upgrade
The rate of technology change is increasing at an ever-accelerating rate.
How Important Are People? What Your Website Can Tell You
The key to being an effective leader is hiring the right people.
Keeping Pace With Market Trends. Is Your Firm Falling Behind?
Law firms must adapt if they want to keep pace with client demand and their own internal growth expectations.
Big Sale, This Weekend Only! Avoiding the Trap of Discounts
There are literally million dollar homes that are discounted by a dollar. Apparently to many that makes a difference.
Associate Bonuses and Hourly Thresholds: Why Now is the Time to Consider a New Reward System
To be productive members of the firm, it’s important that associates drive revenue.
Building a Better Business Development Strategy : Finding Your Sweet Spot through Business Analytics
The ability of your law firm to thrive is predicated on one key pillar of growth – you must develop both new and existing business.
Battling the Basics: Reduce Lag to Improve Year-End Numbers
If there’s one thing your firm can do to help improve your year-end numbers, it’s battle lagging time entry processes. Here’s why.