Category Archives: Working Remote

Advantage #6 of Using a Legal SaaS Product: Low Startup Costs

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 [...]

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Business Development Webinar: How To Locate and Hire A Legal Virtual Assistant

By Larry Port on August 18, 2009

Date: Thursday, Aug 20, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
FREE Webinar! Space is limited! Click here for more information and to register.
Join Master VA Andrea Cannavina (@LegalTypist on Twitter) and Alberta’s own
popular Laurie Mapp (@HaloSecretarial on Twitter), as they present real-life examples,
practical considerations and the pros and cons of locating, working with and
managing [...]

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Lawyers using Smartphones and Web Legal Software

By Larry Port on July 16, 2008

Jordan Furlong, in his highly observant and clever blog Law21, recently posted about the smartphone era in which lawyers find themselves.  Heralded by the iPhone, the era of smartphones is clearly having an impact already on the practice of law, beyond just emails on Blackberrys. Here’s a snippet from Jordan’s post:
…With the smartphones of the [...]

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For Displaced Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and other Midwest Lawyers – Rocket Matter Information

By Larry Port on July 2, 2008

Per Rocket Matter’s assistance to displaced lawyers in Linn County, Iowa, we are extending our policy to any firms displaced due to flooding conditions in the Midwest.
For lawyers displaced by this season’s natural disasters, who have lost their office and need to find new digs, we are offering Rocket Matter free of charge.  This offer [...]

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More Information on Virtual Asstistants for Law Firms

By Larry Port on June 17, 2008

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 [...]

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Attorneys and Virtual Assistants; a Match made in Cyberspace

By Larry Port on June 16, 2008

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 [...]

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Using Virtual Assistants with Rocket Matter

By Larry Port on June 11, 2008

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 [...]

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