Category: Legal


  • A Taste for Clio Accounting

    This article appears in full in the Illinois Bar Journal. Clio, with its flagship product Clio Manage, has long been a powerhouse player in online law practice management software. In the past year, it announced a $900 million round of investor funding, signed its 100th bar association partnership agreement, and launched an AI add-on called…

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  • Clio Duo Brings AI to Lawyers’ Doorstep

    This article appears in full on Lawyerist. Clio Duo, an advanced AI-powered tool built into Clio’s law practice management software, offers features designed to streamline your workflow and enhance productivity. Let’s explore four feature categories: accessing matter details, retrieving client information, finding documents within a matter, and getting caught up on case details… Read the…

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  • 5 Legal Tech Solutions Your Clients Will Love

    This article appears in full on Lawyerist. You can easily lose yourself in the costly jungle of “add-on” legal tech promising a mirage of efficiency gains. Rather than reading another AI-written listicle, let’s walk through five categories and provide real-world examples… Read the full article on Lawyerist’s site.

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  • Handsome and Smart?

    This article appears in full in the Illinois Bar Journal. Usually, in addition to leaves falling and Great Pumpkins rising, fall means the arrival of new versions of Apple operating systems, most prominently iOS. And, soon after, one of our Pointers columnists would detail the new features… Members can read the full article on the…

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  • New Year’s Resolutions 2025

    This article appears in full in the Illinois Bar Journal. It’s that time of year—when you promise yourself that you’ll leap from the warm cocoon of your bed and start doing—during the coldest, darkest month of the year—things you haven’t been this motivated to do since last Jan. 1… Members can read the full article…

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  • Clio Releases Law Firm Accounting Software for Small Firms

    This article appears in full on Lawyerist. Traditionally, one of clearest divisions in web-based law practice management systems was between products that supported billing and trust accounting, and those that offered billing, trust accounting, and general ledger accounting. Products that included general ledger accounting didn’t require synchronization with a business accounting package, such as QuickBooks…

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  • A Noteworthy Item

    A Noteworthy Item

    In medieval Europe, a monk could spend years making a handwritten copy of a single manuscript, replete with elaborate artistic work. Gutenberg put an end to that as a viable publishing mechanism. Similarly, microfilm, microfiche, and CD-ROMs were swept aside as preferred storage mediums for information; legal and otherwise. I doubt your firm still has…

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  • Being Thankful for Fellow Mac-Loving Attorneys

    This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting November 2013 newsletter on legal technology. Having just wrapped up a week of conferences in Florida, I’m happy to be back home in Ohio. Although, of course, it was pleasant to escape late fall temperatures and spend time in Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando, at Disney World. The…

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  • Meet Fellow Mac Lawyers

    This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting August 2013 newsletter on legal technology. In the Beginning Much like Apple’s other businesses, Mac sales have grown remarkably in recent years. At first it was the “halo effect” of folks buying first an iPod and then a Mac. Then came the iPhone and the iPad, both…

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  • Efficient Mac Lawyering

    This article originally appeared on the Affinity Consulting July 2013 newsletter on legal technology. The overall theme for the July newsletter is efficiency in legal practice, with special emphasis on paperless office and time management. In an earlier Mac Corner article I discussed being able to work from anywhere using a program called Byword. This…

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