I hope you enjoyed our presentation at the State Bar of Michigan’s Tips and Tools for a Successful Practice
Here are a few links for the products we mentioned at the presentation:
Practice Management Software:
- Free practice Management for solo practitioners
- Cloud and Small Firm tools available for a monthly fee
- Cloud version works with iOs devices iPhone/iPad
- Android support coming
- Free support and free online training
- Discount through State Bar of Michigan
- Includes billing and Trust accounting
- Online Client Portal
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Robust Law Practice Management software
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Built-in
- Calendaring
- Mobile device support
- Client communication portal
- billing and time-tracking
ABA Legal Technology Resource Center
Communication Management:
- Can use to have online voicemail
- Can forward to your office, cell, home or secretary’s number.
- Can use for video conferencing
- Also able to use for online phone service
e-mail / cloud services:
- Mitigate confidentiality/privilege issues with free gmail
- Can still use all the same google services:
- Google drive (Cloud storage)
- Google’s productivity suite
- Notes
- Sheets
- Documents
- Slides
- gmail functionality/access with custom name@yourlawfirm.com e-mail address
- When starting google apps account, can pair with your current website, or get a custom domain/e-mail address
- Uses google apps design, but segmented from google’s servers
- Stricter privacy/security settings
- Can still use custom e-mail address
- Uses google’s productivity suite (see above)
State Bar of Michigan Resources:
Practice Management Resource Center
- Links to vast knowledge base
- Free lending library
- Customized help based on your needs
- Technology Audit how-to
- Michigan Bar Member Discounts
Hardware:
Fujitsu ScanSnap
- Scans everything from business cards to letters
- Has OCR (Optical character recognition) so one could take information from the scanned document to your word processor
- Desktop and portable scanners
Other Resources:
- Blog by WMU Cooley Law School Professor Gary Bauer
- Designed to help attorneys successfully navigate setting up and managing a solo law firm
Please check back often for new updates.
