Monthly Archives: July 2009

Law Practice Today: Do Lawyers Really Need Practice Management Software?

Allison C. Shields, Esq., President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc. wrote a great piece in Law Practice Today about the need for attorneys to embrace practice management software (or as we at Rocket Matter like to call it, legal productivity software).
Allison knows a thing or two about making law offices more profitable and efficient:  she’s [...]

Free Webinar Series! Ari Kaplan on The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career

Business Development Webinar: The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career

Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Space is limited! Click here for more information and to register.
Rocket Matter is proud to work with Ari Kaplan for our next free business development webinar!
Program Description:
While the economy is faltering, those who focus on [...]

GTD for Legal: The Weekly Review and Wrap-Up

We hoped you enjoyed our discussion this week of Getting Things Done for Lawyers!  Each day this week, we explored different aspects of GTD, hosted on prominent Legal Blogs.  Below are the links:
Day 1: Commencing GTD Week – Getting Things Done for Lawyers
Day 2: How and Why a Lawyer Should Implement a GTD System
Day 3: [...]

GTD for Legal: Do it, defer it, and delegate it; the two minute rule; and organizing your practice

As part of our weeklong legal efficiency-fest, we’re discussing the Getting Things Done productivity system in the context of a law firm.  Each day this week, we’ll write guest posts at prominent legal blogs exploring the system in more detail.
Today we’re very excited for a new guest blog experience at Lawyerist, a very progressive source [...]

GTD For Legal: Capturing and Transforming “Stuff” into Next Action Items

As part of our weeklong legal efficiency-fest, we’re discussing the Getting Things Done productivity system in the context of a law firm.  Each day this week, we’ll write guest posts at prominent legal blogs exploring the system in more detail.
Today, our friend and social media Obi Wan Grant Griffiths is hosting our post on Legal [...]

Tasks are Here! And How to Implement a Legal Getting Things Done System

Today, Rocket Matter is very pleased to announce the roll-out of a major product upgrade: tasks!
A total rewrite of our existing to-do lists, tasks help attorneys take their productivity to new levels.
With the new task functionality, you’re able to integrate tags (a more powerful form of keywords), into your tasks so you can more easily [...]

Getting Things Done For Lawyers – Commencing GTD Legal Week

I come from the software industry, where David Allen’s Getting Things Done system of “stress-free productivity” is quite popular.  Software types are continually looking for that extra edge in efficiency. GTD related techie blogs such as LifeHacker and 43Folders evolved into major destinations for the productivity obsessed.
As we first started studying law offices when creating Rocket Matter, I [...]

Law.com review of Rocket Matter: SaaS Case Management for the Small Firm

Finis R. Price III, practicing attorney and TechnoEsq Presentations Co-Founder, wrote a detailed, thorough, and balanced review of Rocket Matter and of Legal Software as a Service advantages in general.
Being reviewed by Finis is a real honor:  this guy really knows his stuff when it comes to technology, AV, Mac topics, aside from his legal expertise. [...]

How Legal Software as a Service can Help Chicago Lawyers Go Green

We wrote an article for our friends at Chicago Lawyer exploring the green benefits of web-based legal software.  To download a PDF reprint, click here.
Chicago law firms, like the rest of the country’s businesses, are hopping on the “green” bandwagon.  The benefits of an environmentally friendly business can be both altruistic and economical, allowing firms [...]