Law Practice Management Suites

What is Law Practice Management Suites?

A law practice management suite is the operating system of your law firm. It includes a variety of tools to help ensure that you attend to your cases in a timely manner, have ready access to your contacts, keep all your case documents organized, get your invoices out regularly, and keep on top of your accounts receivable.
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LawSites
The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 4 of 4): Wrapping It All Up
Over the first three posts in this series, I’ve talked about the shrinking ownership of law practice management technology for solo and small firms — how most of the major contenders in the market have all come to be owned by just six overarching ownership groups. I’ve shown you who those groups are and which...
Bob Ambrogi
9/19/2024
LawSites
The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology (Part 1 of 4): A Market Dominated by Just Six Ownership Groups
Sixteen years ago marked the beginning of a sea change in law practice management technology for solo and small law firms. On March 1, 2008, a virtually unknown company out of Canada called Themis Solutions launched the first cloud-based software product for managing a law practice, called Clio. Coincidentally, just a week earlier, another company,...
Bob Ambrogi
9/16/2024
LawSites
Law Practice Management Platform Centerbase Now Automatically Captures Time Spent Working in Microsoft Word and Outlook
For some lawyers, tracking time is so tedious and onerous that they leave their law firms for jobs where hourly billing is not required, such as working inhouse at a corporation. Even apart from the tedium, time tracking is often incomplete and inaccurate, failing to record all billable hours and resulting in time leakage that can...
Bob Ambrogi
9/3/2024
Legal IT Insider
TalkingTech Podcast: New tech and key Momentum take aways, with Aderant’s CEO Chris Cartrett and CTO Andy Hoyt
In our latest TalkingTech podcast, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill spoke with Aderant’s president and CEO Chris Cartrett and chief technology officer Andy Hoyt about the Atlanta-headquartered company’s recent [...] The post TalkingTech Podcast: New tech and key Momentum take aways, with Aderant’s CEO Chris Cartrett and CTO Andy Hoyt appeared first on Legal...
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
8/29/2024
LawSites
How It Works: A Demo of the New AI Legal Assistant in Law Practice Management Platform LEAP
Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verification. In this latest installment in the LawSites video series How It Works, you get to see LEAP’s new AI assistant in action. In this video,...
Bob Ambrogi
8/6/2024
LawSites
Clio Sets Legal Tech Funding Record with $900M Raise at $3B Valuation; LawNext Has Exclusive Podcast Interview with Founder Jack Newton
The law practice management company Clio today announced a record-setting raise of $900 million, at a valuation of a whopping $3 billion, in an oversubscribed Series F investment round that the company says will accelerate its ability to continue to build and develop its multi-product platform and expand its market both to larger firms and...
Bob Ambrogi
7/23/2024
LawSites
Clio Launches Its Own Legal-Specific Accounting and Bookkeeping Software as Add-On to Clio Manage
The law practice management company Clio today unveiled Clio Accounting, providing legal-specific bookkeeping and accounting as an add-on to U.S. customers of its Clio Manage platform. I have not had an opportunity to see a demonstration of it, but Clio said in an announcement that it includes features to sync information from Clio Manage to...
Bob Ambrogi
7/16/2024
LawSites
Exclusive: Law Practice Management Software LEAP Introduces Three AI Features – with A Unique Human-In-the-Loop Twist
The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software is today introducing three artificial intelligence features built directly into its all-in-one practice management platform – including one with a unique human-in-the-loop twist. “LEAP’s AI solutions are not here to replace lawyers or the work they do, but support and complement their expertise by allowing them to...
Bob Ambrogi
7/15/2024
LawSites
In A First for Law Practice Management Platforms, Clio Rolls Out An Integrated E-Filing Service in Texas
Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with Texas, which would make it the first law practice management platform with built-in e-filing. Today, it delivered on that promise, launching Clio File for e-filing in Texas courts....
Bob Ambrogi
7/9/2024
LawSites
Solo and Small Firms Plan to Adopt AI More Quickly than Larger Firms, But Not Fast Enough for Clients, Clio Survey Finds
Solo and small firm lawyers intend to adopt artificial intelligence at a much faster pace than their larger-firm counterparts, but their clients are even more enthusiastic about the technology, believing it can result in more affordable and higher quality services from their lawyers. So says the 2024 Legal Trends for Solo and Small Firms report,...
Bob Ambrogi
5/21/2024
LawSites
Stuck In A Long-Term Contract with A Practice Management Vendor? Clio Offers to Buy You Out
Two years ago, Clio, the law practice management company, made an offer that some law firms might have found difficult to refuse. It offered to buy them out of up to six months of their contracts with competing practice management platforms if they switched to Clio’s platform. Now Clio is reviving that offer, which it calls...
Bob Ambrogi
3/5/2024
Above the Law Tech News
Lawyers Spend Way Too Much Time Dealing With Expenses
New product launch from AffiniPay/MyCase looks to address this problem. The post Lawyers Spend Way Too Much Time Dealing With Expenses appeared first on Above the Law.
Joe Patrice
2/28/2024
LawSites
First-Of-Its-Kind Credit Card/Software Combo from LawPay and MyCase Lets Law Firms Track Expenses Directly to Matters and Invoicing
A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in losses to firm profits. A first-of-its-kind product being unveiled today by AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay and MyCase, aims to solve that problem for smaller firms by marrying a business credit card for law firms...
Bob Ambrogi
2/28/2024
Legal IT Insider
LegalTech Insights: Clio’s CEO Jack Newton talks gen AI differentiators, cloud parallels, and regulatory guidance
Caroline Hill sat down with Jack Newton, founder and CEO of SaaS legal practice management vendor Clio, to chat through his vision of how generative AI will be a differentiator; [...] The post LegalTech Insights: Clio’s CEO Jack Newton talks gen AI differentiators, cloud parallels, and regulatory guidance appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
2/15/2024
LawSites
Exclusive: Practice Management Company Smokeball Unveils Plans for an AI Ecosystem Spanning the Full Client Lifecycle
At the American Bar Association’s Techshow this week in Chicago, the law practice management platform Smokeball will unveil its plan to deploy generative artificial intelligence within its platform across the client lifecycle, from intaking new clients to handling their matters to billing them for the work. It will launch the first set of these Smokeball...
Bob Ambrogi
2/14/2024
LawSites
Thomson Reuters Is Shutting Down Its Firm Central Law Practice Management Software
Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. 30, 2024. Thomson Reuters launched Firm Central in 2013 at a media event in its then-headquarters in Eagan, Minn., as its answer to a then-growing crop of cloud-based practice management software such as Clio,...
Bob Ambrogi
2/10/2024
Above the Law Tech News
Practice Management Company Clio Says It Will Heighten Its Focus On Midsized Law Firms
More than 1,000 mid-sized law firms already subscribe to Clio, the company says, and it will now more heavily invest in products tailored to this market. The post Practice Management Company Clio Says It Will Heighten Its Focus On Midsized Law Firms appeared first on Above the Law.
Robert Ambrogi
2/1/2024
LawSites
Practice Management Company Clio Says It Will Heighten Its Focus On Mid-Sized Law Firms
The legal technology company Clio, which started 16 years ago as a law practice management platform tailored to solos and small firms, said this week that it will now heighten its focus and investment on technology for mid-sized law firms of more than 20 employees. “In an era where technological advancement defines business success, mid-sized...
Bob Ambrogi
1/31/2024
Legal IT Insider
Actionstep’s CEO Early Stephens talks mid-market priorities and tackling generational stress
Early Stephens, CEO of Actionstep, talks about the progress in Actionstep’s acquisition of Soluno and why that is important to mid-market law firm clients. We discuss how technology can enable [...] The post Actionstep’s CEO Early Stephens talks mid-market priorities and tackling generational stress appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
1/31/2024
LawSites
LEAP Legal Software Names Legal Tech Veteran Misti Holmes As Chief Operating Officer for the U.S.
The law practice management company LEAP Legal Software has hired Misti Holmes, a 20-year veteran of the legal technology, as its new chief operating officer in the United States. Holmes will use her years of legal tech and related experience to help grow the company and assist new LEAP clients as they transition from legacy...
Bob Ambrogi
1/19/2024
LawSites
On LawNext: Zen and the Art of Law Practice Management, with ZenCase’s CEO TJ Fraser and COO Olivia Mockel
In 2013, when Florida lawyer TJ Fraser set out to find a law practice management solution for his firm, he tested just about every product on the market, he says, but he could not find one that solved the problems he encountered in his day-to-day practice. So, rather than keep looking, he decided to build...
Bob Ambrogi
1/17/2024
LawSites
On LawNext: AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong on the Intersection of Fintech, Legal Tech and AI
Dru Armstrong was named CEO of AffiniPay, the parent company of LawPay, in July 2021. Less than a year later, AffiniPay shook up the legal tech landscape by acquiring MyCase, one of the leading law practice management platforms, in a deal that also included four other practice management products: CASEPeer for personal injury firms, Docketwise for immigration practices, Soluno for billing and accounting (which it recently sold), and Woodpecker for document automation....
Bob Ambrogi
12/12/2023
TechLaw Crossroads
Smokeball Report Reveals a Dysfunctional View of Business and Technology by Smaller Law Firms 
I hate it when people talk about dysfunctional families. That suggests there are functional ones, but I sure haven’t seen one yet. Smokeball, a cloud-based legal practice management software provider, today released its 2024 State of the Law Report. It reveals some pretty scary findings about smaller law firms and their lack of knowledge of fundamental...
Stephen Embry
12/4/2023
LawSites
MyCase Releases Public API For Easier Integration with Third-Party Software; Adds LawPay Reconciliation
The law practice management company MyCase this week introduced a public API for easier integration with third-party software, as well as two new payments features that more tightly integrate LawPay within the MyCase platform. By releasing a public API (application programming interface), MyCase is making it easier for customers to integrate the platform with other...
Bob Ambrogi
11/30/2023
LawSites
Small Law Firms Made Progress this Year On Their Biggest Challenge, Thomson Reuters Survey Finds
Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing...
Bob Ambrogi
11/30/2023
LawSites
Clio Double Header: Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Watson and Chief Product Officer Hemant Kashyap
On today’sLawNext, it’s a Clio double header, featuring two separate interviews with two of Clio’s top product-focused executives – one with Jonathan Watson, its chief technology officer, and the other with Hemant Kashyap, chief product officer  – both recorded live at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville in October.  Even though I interviewed Watson and...
Bob Ambrogi
11/14/2023