LegalTech | Timekeeping

Whether a firm operates on a fixed fee or hourly basis, timekeeping is one of the most important functions for any law firm. Each lawyer  is required to maintain detailed timesheets which is crucial later when creating invoices and charging clients. While there are many possible arrangements with t...
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LegalTech | Thoughts – 4

Everybody is talking about LegalTech. Some started saying that LegalTech will replace lawyers or undermine and minimize them in a law firm. On the contrary! LegalTech is technology and software that will make a lawyer work easier and better and help them become more efficient and productive with les...
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LegalTech | Thoughts – 3

To legaltech or not to legaltech… that is not the question. Sorry, Mr. Shakespeare, not in this case. LegalTech is a must for law firms nowadays. However, many recent publications on the subject seem to indicate that law firms tend to be very conservative while considering such new solutions for t...
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LegalTech | Thoughts – 2

Everybody is talking about LegalTech. What actually is LegalTech? LegalTech is an industry that helps provide legal services through technology and software for practice management, document automation, management and storage, due diligence process, electronic discovery, billing etc. It is specialis...
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LegalTech | Thoughts – 1

Everybody is talking about LegalTech. Everywhere you look, you will see numerous articles about LegalTech. Some may think it is a fashion, a trend and just disregard it, continuing to use old outdated faulty tools, saving client documents on their C: drive and having this false feeling that they are...
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LegalTech | Metadata Scrubbing

Most documents contain hidden metadata that shows the history of the document, data about the document embedden within the file details. It shows when the document was created, edited, who authored or edited it etc.  When emailing legal documents to a client you should remove unncecessary metadata....
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LegalTech | How do you compare legal documents?

How do you compare your legal documents? Do you use Microsoft Word comparison function? Sure, that works for simple comparisons, but it wasn’t created for lawyers. How about documents that have complex structure and numbering scheme, that contain tables and pictures? As you know, it won’t compar...
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