Monthly Archives: June 2008

Online Collaboration Tools for Lawyers

As providers of Legal SaaS, we’re always on the lookout for great web-based technologies lawyers can leverage to optimize their practices.  We’ve covered Drop.io for file transfer and MindMeister for mind-mapping in the past.  These technologies, and many more, are highlighted in a Law.com article written by Tom Mighell.  A short sample from the article, [...]

Rocket Matter Free of Charge to Displaced Lawyers While They Get Back on Their Feet

We understand very well the difficulties facing our friends in the Midwest during this trying time.  Our co-founders are based in South Florida (don’t worry – are servers aren’t), so we know firsthand how devastating weather can wreak havoc in people’s lives.
So, after reading a request by Ernie the Attorney to help Displaced Iowa Laywers, [...]

Congratulations to Ultimate Software!

Another South Florida SaaS company, Ultimate Software, recently was awarded the best medium-sized business to work for in America on Monday by The Great Place to Work Institute.  We know firsthand that Ultimate was a great place to work, as my co-founder and I met and worked there.
So congratulations to our South Florida SaaS brethren [...]

Rocket Matter Helps Provide Disaster Recovery for Law Firms

Does your law firm have a disaster recovery plan in case your office becomes unusable?
With Rocket Matter, you don’t have to worry about the safety and security of your legal practice management and time and billing information in case of an unfortunate event. Since all you need is access to the internet, you can [...]

TechnoLawyer Members Most Interested in Web-based Legal Software…

…during a two-week period in late May/early June. Our May 30 TechnoRelease had a very high click-through rate. Apparently our web-based legal software is really causing a stir in the legal technology community.  According to the folks at PeerViews, Inc, we had more interest than any other release in that period:
Congratulations to Rocket Matter [...]

More Information on Virtual Asstistants for Law Firms

Per our recent posts revolving around Virtual Assistants, the following blog post is a great, exhaustive article on how a law firm may benefit from a VA. It discusses pricing, advantages, disadvantages, and types of activities VA’s can perform:
The Ultimate Virtual Assistant Guide
The nice thing about using Rocket Matter is that you have no [...]

Attorneys and Virtual Assistants; a Match made in Cyberspace

Guest post by Tina Hilton; owner/virtual assistant; Clerical Advantage
So you’ve been hearing the words Virtual Assistant pop up just about everywhere lately? Not surprising, because although the virtual assistant industry has been around for awhile, in our current economy using a virtual assistant is becoming a wise economical decision. For lawyers, especially solo practitioners [...]

Using Virtual Assistants with Rocket Matter

One of the luxuries of using legal web-based practice management and time and billing software is that you can virtualize your office. You can work from home and your support staff can be anywhere. This allows you to minimize many of your office expenses (and now the expense of driving to the office).
Tina [...]

Rocket Matter API: Merge Documents with Rocket Matter on a Mac

Larry Staton, Jr., over at the Scripting for Lawyers blog, has created an AppleScript which extracts contact information from Rocket Matter and merges it into a Word document. He posted a brief explanation and a video which explains how he worked together with us in order to pull this off.
Our work with Larry represents [...]

Rocket Matter Updates: Improved Printing and Matter Relationships

The web generation of legal software just got a little bit better tonight.  We rolled out the following improvements to Rocket Matter.  Please take a look and let us know what you think!

Screen Printing:  Now, it’s easy to print a hard copy of your User Dashboard, Matter Dashboard, To-do’s, Calendar, and Billing.
Matter Relationships:  You now [...]