When you’re in the business of billing by hour, minutes matter. The more efficiently you can use those minutes, the more hours per day you can theoretically bill. And when the average lawyer only spends 2.5 hours per day on billable projects, there’s a lot of room for improvement. That’s Read more…
The short answer as to when you should get a new MacBook: when it will save you a significant amount of time. That being said, it might be a good idea to get a few people on your team new MacBooks right now. To zoom out for a moment – Read more…
Keeping good employees – from secretaries to attorneys – has always been a difficult task in Florida. The pandemic (and the debate between going back to the office versus staying virtual) is just the latest hurdle. Operationally speaking, it seems tricky to manage a hybrid office with staff splitting time Read more…
Logistics are simpler than they were in 2019. Pre-pandemic, there were countless stories from law firms losing substantial manhours to traffic – especially frustrating when it was 45 minutes each way to head to the courthouse for a 15 minute hearing. Then there were the last-minute cancellations of depositions when Read more…
To cut right to the chase – Dropbox is secure enough for law firms to use. They use solid encryption (once the files reach Dropbox) and you can enable two-factor authentication to further make sure your files stay protected. There is a caveat though – if you decide not to Read more…
Perry Mason was able to find a smoking gun with spectacular consistency – unfortunately reality doesn’t live up to Hollywood in this case. That being said, we have worked with attorneys who had clients come to them after a theft and after finding their surveillance system’s hard drive in a Read more…
With the world switching to virtual and hybrid offices, tools like Slack & Discord have become increasingly popular – and for good reason. Used correctly, they can be powerful collaboration tools and increase a team’s productivity by moving conversations out of email and into a dedicated channel. With that being Read more…
Zoom is great because it just works. The settings are easy to understand and – after the craziness of 2020 and 2021 – very few people are having trouble getting Zoom to work. But what about when you want to share a recorded Zoom meeting? Before we answer that, we Read more…
Say you have a client trying to transfer files to you with a thumb drive – doesn’t matter why. But your law firm runs on Macs and your client uses a PC running Windows and you get an error message when you try and plug the drive into your Mac. Read more…
Remote and hybrid offices have created a new challenge that many law firms were not ready for. And even as the pandemic draws to a close, many firms have found out their best staff want to work remotely – at least part of the time. Law firms are looking for Read more…