The practice management platform PracticePanther today introduced native e-signatures, enabling law firms to send and obtain signatures on documents from directly within the platform, a feature that could both save time for users and streamline tasks such as client intake.
The feature is available free to subscribers to PracticePanther’s Business Plan and requires no separate subscription to a third-party
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LawNext: How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management
One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years ago as ASG LegalTech and rebranded this year as Paradigm, to represent its goal of
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Exclusive: Bill4Time Launches Fully Integrated Electronic Payments
The pandemic has made it more essential than ever before for law firms to accept electronic payments. Clients who now pay everything else online have no appetite for lawyers who require paper payments. Plus, law firms that accept e-payments get paid faster and increase their collections, studies suggest.
Against this backdrop, the practice management platform Bill4Time is today unveiling
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Report: Law Firms that Adopt E-Payments See Speedier Collections, Increased Revenues
Not surprisingly, the pandemic drove greater use of electronic payments across all industries, with the volume of electronic payments up 11.2 % in the first quarter of 2021 over the prior year.
Law firms were no exception to this trend, as they realized that the old way of collecting payments via paper checks was impacting their cash flow, according to
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Legal Software Solutions for Remote Working
Legal software when working remotely
It can take months to find the right tool stack for your virtual practice. Not to mention that operating remotely can also incur unexpected communication challenges or late bill payments from your legal firm clients.
67% of legal practitioners would like to continue working from home in the future, even if in a hybrid setting.
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Client Portals Are Now an Essential Service for Law Firms to Offer
The Oklahoma Bar Association has a new digital publication called Courts & More. It is sent to OBA members and features links to the recent Oklahoma appellate court opinions and other Oklahoma legal news. I write a practice management feature for that publication and will republish it here the week after it goes out to OBA members.
Every law firm
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ASG LegalTech, Parent to Four Legal Practice Products, Rebrands As Paradigm – Exclusive Interview with Company Execs
ASG LegalTech, a portfolio company composed of four popular legal practice products — PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase and Headnote — today introduced a new brand for itself, Paradigm, to better represent how the company views itself, its customers and its plans for moving forward.
In a special episode of LawNext recorded in advance of today’s announcement, I discussed the rebrand
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On LawNext: ASG LegalTech’s Acquisition Of Headnote: The Two CEOs Discuss
In this exclusive LawNext interview recorded in advance of the announcement of ASG LegalTech’s acquisition of electronic payments company Headnote, I speak with the two companies’ CEOs: Soumya Nettimi of ASG LegalTech and Sarah Schaaf of Headnote, on the reasons for the deal and the significance for customers.
(I also posted this earlier this week as part of my story
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Exclusive: ASG LegalTech Acquires Payments Platform Headnote; We Interview the Two Companies’ CEOs
ASG LegalTech, the company that owns cloud practice management platforms PracticePanther, Bill4Time and MerusCase, has acquired Headnote, the online payments platform that provides e-payments and accounts-receivable management for law firms.
At the same time, ASG LegalTech is announcing the first fruit of this acquisition — a fully integrated, all-in-one payment system within the PracticePanther platform called PantherPayments
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5 ideas for adapting your practice to the pandemic
The technological rebirth of law practice you’ve been hearing about since the days of the dot-com bubble is finally here—if only because lawyers have no other choice.
The rapid migration of U.S. legal processes to the internet in response to COVID-19 has also created more opportunities for firms to automate administrative tasks. When implemented correctly, the changes can allow legal
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