By Larry Port
on February 26, 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 [...]
By Larry Port
on February 3, 2010
If I were Keanu Reaves, I would be saying “Whoa” right now.
What a better way to celebrate our two-year birthday than to welcome a great legal tech blogger into our community.
Rick Georges, who two years ago took the anti-cloud position in the Mac vs PC ABA Journal article, is now on board the Rocket. It [...]
By Larry Port
on January 4, 2010
Welcome to a new year, a new decade, which hopefully won’t be remembered for odd-shaped jeans and hairstyles. Hopefully this decade (the teens, the tens, hopefully we can decide on a name this time) will be remembered as one in which smaller law firms become more profitable. It appears the groundwork is already there, with [...]
By Larry Port
on November 11, 2009
Last week Mac lawyers from all over the United States gathered in Orlando to talk about using their beloved Apple machines in the legal space. It was a very cool gathering of people, and whether you knew a lot or a little about Macs there was something for everyone.
I found it interesting to talk to [...]
By Larry Port
on November 4, 2009
Law.com’s Legal Technology blog featured an excellent piece by Bryan Redding of Cavo Legal (and fellow Big Ten alumni). Mr. Redding sets out some of the challenges faced by small firms:
There are more than 850,000 lawyers in the U.S. currently practicing as solo practitioners or with small firms (less than 20 attorneys). This demographic is [...]
By Larry Port
on October 21, 2009
Do you know anyone that purchased legal software such as Time Matters, and then never used it?
This phenomenon tends not to happen with Rocket Matter and other web-based software. It’s easy to access (just type a URL into a brower) and simple to use.
There’s a strong economic motivator behind this: many SaaS companies charge month-to-month, [...]
By Larry Port
on October 15, 2009
Question: What is the best thing about spending a thousand dollars on a brand new computer to support your new legal practice management software?
Answer: Not spending a thousand dollars on a new computer for your new legal practice management software.
Traditional, server-based legal practice management programs (such as Time Matters™ or Amicus Attorney™) require minimum [...]
By Larry Port
on October 14, 2009
Let’s face it: it’s been a rough year. If you still have a job you’re probably pulling the weight of the resources that were let go in a downsizing round (and if you’re doing really well you’re probably a bankruptcy or foreclosure attorney).
Necessity is the mother of invention as they say, and many attorneys had [...]
By Larry Port
on October 12, 2009
You know when your software breaks in your office, so you call the software vendor, then the IT consultant, then perhaps even a Certified consultant, and they all tell you to call each other and someone else?
We call this phone pong.
Rocket Matter integrates your contacts, calendar, phone messaging, time tracking, reporting, invoice creation, to-do list, [...]
By Larry Port
on October 9, 2009
Computerworld recently featured an article discussing how small businesses, by leverage the cloud and Software as a Service, are able to cut their IT costs. The following quote says it best:
Third party clouds, however, can now do everything a business needs. The smaller the company, the more they should look to hosted “cloud” providers for [...]
