Category Archives: Legal Software

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Major Rocket Matter Feature Launch – Reports for Web Based Legal Software

Online practice management for law firms just got a little better looking.  Rocket Matter users this morning are waking up to some beautiful changes!
Introducing Reports
In addition to a major design upgrade, we rolled out a major new feature: Reports. Now, you can easily get a quick view of the financial status and performance of your [...]

Canadian Bar Association’s National Magazine Interviews Rocket Matter on Legal SaaS

National Magazine, the CBA’s journal, recently wrote an article about online legal products entitled “Practicing Law with SaaS“.  Luigi Benetton, the writer for the article, interviewed Larry Port (me) from Rocket Matter, for some information about the emergent technology trend of Software-as-a-Service for legal.
For the Legal SaaS curious, it’s a must read.  Luigi does a [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]