Essential Softwares for Lawyers – A Profound Shift in Legal Practice
In the legal sphere, Essential Softwares for Lawyers are often underutilized. These solutions offer vast potential benefits for any practice. If you’re using any of these, chances are, you’re not leveraging them to their full capacity.
Why are Essential Softwares for Lawyers Important?
The transition from traditional to digital ways of working is not just a trend but a necessity. Essential Softwares for Lawyers can dramatically transform law practices, providing tools for case management, research, billing, and more.
Show Notes
Here’s a list of essential software that was discussed:
- Automated Scheduling (e.g. Acuity, Calendly, ScheduleOnce)
- PDF Manipulation software (e.g. Acrobat, Kofax PowerPDF, PDF Pen,PDF Expert)
- Dictation & Transcription software
- Dictation: (Dragon Naturally Speaking, which is now only supported for Windows computers. But Mac users can use voice control to get 80% of the benefit of Dragon on their computer. Smartphones now all have pretty decent dictation capabilities)
- Transcription (Otter.ai, which is free for 60 hours of transcription per month)
- Otter.ai transcript of this podcast episode
- TextExpansion software (e.g. TextExpander)
- Brett Burney’s TextExpander for Lawyers courses
- Demo of Ernie’s textexpander automation for this episode’s podcast show notes
- Password Manager software (e.g. LastPass, 1Password, Dashlane, Roboform)
- Backup software (e.g. Backblaze, Carbonite, Time Machine for Macs)
- Team Chat (e.g. Slack) or Microsoft Teams)
- Virtual Meeting software (e.g. Zoom), Webex, Microsoft Teams)
- Process documentation software (e.g. SweetProcess, Process St.)
- Video recording software for explaining/training (e.g. Loom)
- Email broadcast software (e.g. ConvertKit, Mailchimp)
- Website: online presence (e.g. WordPress, Squarespace, About.me)
General Resources
- Check out my Inner Circle (to participate in ongoing discussions about tech tools I discuss and recommend)
- Check out this Law-Tech Assessment if you want specific recommendations for improving based on the technology you’re using in your practice
- Click for a list of the Best Tech Tools for Lawyers
- Subscribe to: The 80/20 Principle newsletter (it’s free)
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