Category: Technology
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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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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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Thankful for Things “Macful”
This month’s newsletter theme is things that we’re thankful for. Having just returned from Affinity’s CaseAware® Bootcamp, I’ve got a list of a list of five tools that I’m thankful I had at hand: iPad The iPad gets a bum rap as a content consumption rather than content creation device. And admittedly, I mostly use…
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Upgrade Season
As part of Apple’s September 9th media event, the company announced the release dates for iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan. iOS was released on September 16th, and is a free upgrade for all supported iPhones and iPads. On September 30th, Apple released OS X 10.11, El Capitan. It too is a free…
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Making Mail Better
Elsewhere in this month’s newsletter, Jenn discusses how Outlook alone is insufficient as a practice management solution. This leads her to a discussion of PracticeMaster, an excellent Windows-based product. On the Mac side, as you’re probably familiar, our practice management options are mostly web-based – Clio, ActionStep, and Rocket Matter, being some of the best-known…
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Paperless Mac
As you may know, the favorite desktop scanner series at Affinity is the ScanSnap series from Fujitsu. This series of scanners is generally excellent. I have a predecessor of the ScanSnap iX500 on my desk at the office and at home. I recently set up a family member with the ScanSnap S1300i, which she thoroughly…
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Traveling with Apple
Psychological studies show that vacation has tremendous health benefits. Broadly speaking, Americans are a vacation deprived people. Having entered the summer months, now is an excellent time to make up your vacation deficit. Being firmly into vacation season, I think it’s a good opportunity to review a couple of travel tips for using your Apple…