The Right Law Practice Software Will Free Up A Lot Of Your Time

When you are running a solo or small law practice, finding the right law practice management software for your firm can seem a challenging task. After all, you are busy practising law, looking after your clients, and earning fees. Finding the time to investigate software doesn’t seem to fit into your day.

However, the fact is that finding the right law practice management software for your firm will free up a lot of time so that you can do what you do best, and that is representing your clients’ interests and earning fees.

Perhaps the most important thing is to choose quality legal technology that will serve you for the long term rather than consumer-grade or free software. After all, pricing for most of the legal software that is available in the cloud is really not all that expensive for what you are getting. A typical price quoted by one firm is £50 per month for the first user, and £30 per month for each subsequent user on an annual rolling contract. When you consider your fee per hour (the average for UK solicitors is quoted as £180 – although can be several times that for an individual) if you only saved one hour per week that you could now devote to fee-earning by using the software, you are already well into profit.

More and more lawyers in the UK are turning to using software in the cloud, partly because of the Rule of Three which states that you should upgrade one third of your technology every year. If you limp along with outdated hardware and software you are going to get breakdowns, and at some point you will hit a very costly upgrade, whereas with technology in the cloud, that is all taken care of. Software suppliers are constantly upgrading their hardware and software because they have to in order to stay in business, so you are always using the latest and greatest law practice management software with cloud technology.

One feature that should be included in your case management software is an encrypted client portal for secure communication with your client. Your clients will be happier too, as a portal makes it easy for them to communicate and stay up to date on their case.

So if you don’t yet have cloud software for your law firm, it is well worth your while to investigate it. We have only scratched the surface here, but there are many other benefits that will save you time which you can devote to earning fees. 

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