Category Archives: Legal Practice Management

The most comprehensive assessments of Legal Technology in 2010

Amazing work by Reid Trautz for his piece Is the Apple iPad the Tipping Point? Practicing Law in the Cloud Goes Mainstream in 2010. It’s one of the most, if not THE most, comprehensive assessments of the state of legal and how it’s changing before our eyes. A snippet:
Right before our eyes a [...]

ROCKET MATTER CELEBRATES TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BY LAUNCHING ROCKET MATTER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

ROCKET MATTER CELEBRATES TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BY LAUNCHING ROCKET MATTER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Company marks milestone and expands services to include custom import work and tailored training options
BOCA RATON, FL – February 2, 2010 – Rocket Matter®, the leading Web-based legal practice management and time and billing solution for small to mid-sized law firms, today announced the two-year [...]

Legal Project Management : A Shared Vision

We’re big proponents of legal professionals thinking of their cases as projects.  Why?  So that powerful techniques of the project management discipline, honed by years of experience in manufacturing and technology, can be leveraged to create an efficient and quality product for law firms.
That’s why we’re excited to see Paul C. Easton’s blog, Legal Project [...]

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 [...]

Legal Business Development Through Writing

 Operating out of South Florida, we often receive thought leaders visiting their parents. Such was the case yesterday, when I had the pleasure of meeting with Ari Kaplan, legal technology writer, speaker, and consultant.
I had a great talk with Ari, learning about his book “The Opportunity Maker” and his business philosophies. We conversed [...]

Rocket Matter Announces the Addition of Document Storage to their Legal Productivity Tools

Rocket Matter® offers an easy-to-organize, secure, massive data storage tool as part of their Web-based SaaS product
BOCA RATON, FL – April 2, 2009 – Rocket Matter®, a leading web-based legal practice management and time and billing solution for small to mid-sized law firms, today announces the availability of document storage in their signature product – [...]

More Legal Technology Predictions for 2009

Last month we published a list of online legal practice management and time and billing predictions in Law Practice Today. Recently we came across two more lists of 2009 legal tech predictions by people we hold in high esteem: Ross Kodner over at the Ross Ipsa Loquitur Blog, and Neil Squillante at TechnoLawyer.
From [...]

What’s the true cost of desktop practice management software?

On occasion we get pricing questions from people.  Their point of view, a very valid one, is the following: “Your product looks great, but with what I pay in a year for Rocket Matter I can buy some licenses for desktop software and we’re finished.”
The following is our response.  Keep in mind that what we [...]

2009 Predictions for Online Legal Practice Management

We at Rocket Matter would like to extend our thanks to Ben Stevens, for inviting us to guest post on The Mac Lawyer blog (which recently joined the prestigious ranks of the ABA Journal Blawg 100).  Our topic:  2009 Predictions for Online Legal Practice Management.  The high level (but you gotta read the rich detail [...]

Productivity Tip: Why Case Management Software Trumps Outlook

This snippet is an older SOLOSEZ post (July 2008) from Ross Kodner, Microlaw founder and legal technology guru.  His excellent, no-nonsense advice is a regular feature on the ABA’s SOLOSEZ listserv.
Here, Ross talks about the importance of a firm getting it right from the start.  He advises using dedicated legal practice management software,  instead of [...]