All attendees are automatically entered to win an iPad!

In this webinar, with special guest Tom Mighell, author of iPad in One Hour for Lawyers, you’ll learn some of the best ways lawyers are using iPads in their practices, and the best apps and accessories for getting the job done.

Title: Using iPads in Your Law Practice
When: May 22, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Speaker: Tom Mighell, Inter-Alia
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Cost: Free

Presenter, Tom Mighell is a Senior Consultant with Contoural, Inc., where he helps companies deal with information governance, litigation readiness, and sensitive information control issues. Prior to becoming a consultant Tom was a trial lawyer for 18 years in Dallas. Tom is the author of iPad in One Hour for Lawyers, iPad Apps in One Hour for Lawyers, and iPad in One Hour for Litigators, all published by the American Bar Association.

Tom is the Co-Host of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, a legal technology podcast from the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center. He served four years on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board, and as Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2008. He currently serves as Immediate Past Chair of the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section. Tom received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

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The personal billing widget can be found, in yellow, at the bottom right of the user dashboard and keeps an accurate tally of all of your time.

By selecting the appropriate time frame on the dropdown menu, you can choose to display activity by today, yesterday, this week and or this month.

Clicking on the hyperlink of total hours billed total will take you directly to the billable activity report. From this report, in addition to your own time, you can track others. The report can be run for any date range and will show all activities.

Utilizing your personal billing widget regularly will help you set, track and manage your billing goals on an ongoing basis. For more tips on getting the most out Rocket Matter, stay tuned for more Wednesday Wisdoms.

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CASE STUDY
See How Total Compliance LTD Uses Rocket Matter to Streamline Operations for Global 35-Member Firm:

Using Rocket Matter allowed our global offices at Total Compliance to streamline our efforts and accomplish tasks quicker and more effectively. That’s what we strive for as a business and what Rocket Matter helps us to accomplish.

“We particularly like the Dropbox integration feature,” adds director, Filippe Scalora. “It allows us to become almost exclusively ‘virtual.’ We also enjoy the interactivity of the interface. It seems to anticipate how we would like to use it and perform accordingly, which makes the learning curve practically non-existent.”

ON THE BLOGS
Browse our Legal Productivity blog where we cover a range of topics to help lawyers manage their practice and their life: productivity tips, mobile apps, privacy and security issues, blogging and social media, wellness, reviews and quizzes, and more. Top recent posts include:

5 Podcasts For Tech Savvy Lawyers
20 Essential Text Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
7 Content Generating Tips For Niche Blogging Lawyers
6 Useful Sites For Android Loving Lawyers
Top 10 Grammar Websites For Bloggers, Writers And Content Creators

E-BOOK LIBRARY
Over the years we’ve published E-Books on productivity and law practice management. Titles include Remarkably Ridiculous Legal Billing: How Better Billing Practices Improve Your Law Firm and Your Life, Productivity Tips for the Discerning Cloud Computing Lawyer, and The Law Firm of Tomorrow. You can now find our library of E-Books here. We’re working on more exciting new publications. Stay tuned!

WEDNESDAY WISDOM
Check out our latest Wednesday Wisdom tips for Rocket Matter users:

Capturing Time In a Flat Fee Matter
Conflict Checking By Adding Additional Contacts to Matters
Creating Custom Fields For Your Matters and Contacts

TRAINING AND DEMOS
Rocket Demos are always available online 5 days per week!  Click here to select a time convenient for you and register. Our Rocket Demos are the best way to learn about the application, by seeing it live and in action, and learning about the features and benefits firsthand!

Current customers who need a refresher on all things Rocket Matter are encouraged to jump onto one of our online training classes. We also offer them 5 days a week.

Our dedicated support team is always available 9am-8pm EST, Monday through Friday, to answer all of your questions and concerns. You can reaach them at 888-432-1LAW(1529).

ROCKET WEBINARS AND ROCKET ACADEMY
Upcoming presentations in our popular monthly law practice webinar series include:

• Using iPads in Your Law Practice

Check out, also, Rocket Academy for the latest videos on law practice management and legal productivity.

And remember to join us on the social channels: Facebook, Twitter (Rocket Matter), Twitter (Rocket X1), LinkedIn, and Google Plus

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With Rocket Matter, controlling which firm members have access to certain matters is simple.

Here’s how:

1. Navigate to the matter dashboard.

2. Click on the pencil icon to edit the matter.

3. From the edit matter screen, make the appropriate selection under ‘Who Can View This Matter?’ You can select from everyone, just you, or specific users.

To add a specific user, begin typing his or her name in the global search bar in this section. The person’s name will automatically populate and clicking on it will save him or her to the list, granting permission to access that matter’s documents and information. Users who do not appear on the list will not be able to access the matter.

Not currently using Rocket Matter? Check out one of our convenient online interactive demos, which are held 5 days per week.

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Congratulations to our second winner, Kerline Jean-Louis!

We’ll be choosing three new winners over the next three months, so there’s still time to enter.

Sign up for a live demonstration of Rocket Matter.

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With 35 members they are big enough to undertake the largest project of any of their clients, yet thorough and detailed enough to service their smallest needs. “We don’t assume client loyalty. We earn it,” their motto proclaims.

Law practice management system for a global practice

With clients and staff around the globe, Total Compliance needed a cloud-based, accessible practice management system to manage their practice. “We were working on a large, multi-national project for an important client. We had to coordinate efforts between several of our Total Compliance offices: London, Curaçao, Boston, Amsterdam,” says director, Filippe Scalora. “Rocket Matter kept us literally and figuratively on the same page.”

We wanted software that was cloud based, that would allow us instant access from a multitude of platforms and devices, and that was Mac compatible. Check. Check. Check.

Tracking progress and delivering to clients ahead of time

Rocket Matter allows attorneys and project managers to easily track, update, and assign tasks. They can then associate tasks with matters and easily bill for their time. Drag-and-drop utility allows users to prioritize tasks and tag them to assemble a Getting Things Done™ system. “We could track tasks and progress, improve communication and ultimately, deliver ahead of time,” says Mr. Scalora.

Taking mobility to a whole new level: Worldwide!

Recognizing that the law office no longer has four walls, Rocket Matter is built for lawyers on the go. Along with a robust native iPhone app, the application can be used with any mobile device capable of running a full browser — the software is optimized for usage on all tablets, and the Palm Pre, Windows Mobile, Android, and modern Blackberries. “All Total Compliance employees and management use the iPad link and have the iPhone app pre-installed,” says Mr. Scalora. “Wherever we go, Rocket Matter software goes with us.” With the Rocket Matter iPhone native app, users can quickly access important client data on the go, record client-specific billable activity as it occurs, and view and add contact data and calendar events, anytime from anywhere.

Using Rocket Matter results in an efficient firm

From calendaring and time entry to legal billing and easy document assembly, Rocket Matter ramped up the firm’s efficiency around the globe.

Mr. Scalora pointed to one word that describes how Rocket Matter improves the firm’s operation – Efficiency: “Using Rocket Matter allowed our global offices at Total Compliance to streamline our efforts and accomplish tasks quicker and more effectively. That’s what we strive for as a business and what Rocket Matter helps us to accomplish.”

Seamless integrations

Rocket Matter integrates with many of the applications that lawyers use and love including Dropbox, Evernote, Chrometa, Google Calendar, Skype, and Quickbooks. “We particularly like the Dropbox integration feature,” says Mr. Scalora. “It allows us to become almost exclusively ‘virtual.’ We also enjoy the interactivity of the interface. It seems to anticipate how we would like to use it and perform accordingly, which makes the learning curve practically non-existent.”

Helpful and knowledgable support

Mr. Scalora points out Kim, Rocket Matter’s first hire five years ago, underscoring the company’s commitment to excellent support services: “Our rep at Rocket Matter is Kim. She’s always available on skype and is very knowledgeable. She answers our questions thoroughly and offers helpful suggestions. At Total Compliance, we have to deliver quickly while exceedingly our clients’ expectations.”

Rocket Matter’s cloud-based, mobile-enabled, law practice management software helps Filippe Scalora’s global firm, Total Compliance LTD, effectively and efficiently manage the workload of dispersed members in offices around the world, and on the go.

Sign up for a live demonstration of Rocket Matter, and see your firm can centralize operations and be more efficient like Total Compliance LTD

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1. Navigate to the particular matter dashboard. To create a new matter, click add matter on the top right of the screen.

2. Click the pencil logo to edit the matter information. If the matter is new, you will be taken directly to the edit matter screen after naming it.

3. Click on I Want To Set Custom Rates. Change the default hourly rate to zero.

From this point on, you can capture time from all the usual places in Rocket Matter, but you will not add to the pending invoicing total.

If this is the type of matter that could possibly change back to hourly, this is still possible by going back to the edit matter screen at any point and changing back to hourly billing and re-setting the appropriate hourly rate.

For more information on adding and managing your matters, check out our FAQ page.

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Proactive task and billing management can help you stay on top of your firm’s overall progress. Here’s how to access two Rocket Matter reports that can be useful during those weekday firm wide meetings:

1. To view Rocket Matter reports, sign into your account. Click on the Admin section.

2. Click on More, underneath the Reports heading.

3. Our Active Matters Task report was a customer feature request that we recently launched. Find this report at the bottom of the page and select it. The report prioritizes all tasks by client matter. All open matters with tasks assigned to them will populate. Feel free to view tasks by who created the task, who assigned the task, the due date, or the billable units. You can also export the list if you wish.

4. Our Matter List report allows you to view all open, completed, and closed matters. This report allows you to view the details of the matter, current balances, and most recent activity. This list could be very useful during a weekly law firm roundup meeting.

For a list of other powerful Rocket Matter reports, check out our FAQ page. Using your Active Matters Tasks report to prioritize and manage your weekly meetings and events will enable you to manage your firm’s schedule more efficiently. For more tips on getting the most out of Rocket Matter, stay tuned for more Wednesday Wisdom posts.

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Larry discusses the company’s mission to combine public relations, website design, search engine optimization, and marketing. Check out the full interview: Reinventing Marketing With a Rocket. Thanks, Ari!

About Rocket X1:
Rocket X1 provides law firms with a first-class, highly effective lead generating presence on the web in a matter of weeks.

Rocket X1 consolidates online marketing services offered by multiple agencies, eliminating the need to individually hire separate expertise in website construction, social media & newsletter strategy, search engine optimization, and content marketing. RocketX1 efficiently combines these tactics into one service, saving firms untold hours in coordination and thousands of dollars in monthly fees.

For more information, check out www.rocketx1.com.

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Based on the book Mean Girls at Work – How to Stay Professional When Things get Personal, by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster.

This presentation examines the different ways that women in the legal profession may compete with each other, and offers field-tested techniques for breaking free from or avoiding power struggles between women at work. Participants will learn how to transform difficult woman-to-woman interactions from personal battles to professional alliances.

Title: Women In the Workforce – How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal
When: April 18, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Speakers: Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster K Squared Enterprises
Cost: Free
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Presenters, Katherine Crowley a Harvard trained psychotherapist, and Kathi Elster a management consultant and executive coach are seasoned guides in the area of professional fulfillment through self-awareness and self-management.

Together they have written Working with You Is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work, and Working For You Isn’t Working For Me, How to Get Ahead When Your Boss Holds You Back.

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