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Rocket Matter Launches API and Integration with Automatic Time Tracking Tool Chrometa

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Office Management, Online Resources, Software, Technology

Rocket Matter, the leading cloud-based legal practice management and time and billing software for small to mid-sized law firms, has announced a publicly available application programming interface for Rocket Matter (RMAPI) and one-click integration with Chrometa, an automatic time capture technology for Macs and PCs.  RMAPI allows other software companies to seamlessly and securely retrieve… Continue Reading

Rocket Matter 2.0 Released, Now Featuring Document Assembly

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Office Management, Online Resources, Product Reviews, Software

The Mac Lawyer has long found Rocket Matter to be the leading practice management program for law firms, including my own.  It providers users the ability to quickly and efficiently manage their calendars, tasks, contacts, and time and billing.  Within the last few months, it introduced the ability to integrate with Dropbox and Evernote. Last week, Rocket… Continue Reading

Guest Post :: Implications of iCloud on the Legal Field

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, Mac OS X, Online Resources, Technology

Cloud computing technology has been making serious headway in the past few years. Most of those endeavors have been on the “back end,” allowing businesses to create and implement scalable solutions that rely on third-party, Internet-based providers. The legal field, however, has sometimes been resistant to these technologies. A variety of concerns – primarily those… Continue Reading

The Law Firm of Tomorrow Is Available Today

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Office Management, Online Resources, Technology

Now you can have The Law Firm of Tomorrow today.  Rocket Matter, the leading web-based legal practice management and time and billing software for small to mid-sized law firms has released the first installment of their serially published e-book, which focuses on social media marketing for law firms and legal technology, with an emphasis on cloud and mobile. Based on over… Continue Reading

Guest Post :: “Must Have” Apps & Other Tips for Working While Traveling Abroad

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, How Do I ... ?, iPad, iPhone, Online Resources, Technology

When traveling abroad, busy professionals often do not have time to craft a detailed, comprehensive itinerary, and the stress induced by planning (or the failure to carefully plan) your international journey may be eclipsed by the anxiety that comes from being away from the office. Regardless of whether you are traveling abroad for business or… Continue Reading

Random House Finally Jumps on the Apple iBookstore Bandwagon

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, iPad, Online Resources

The following Guest Post is from Katheryn Rivas: We’ve all heard the cliches of the publishing industry heaving its final breaths before collapsing on a grave of paper, mail subscriptions, and these odd, now-obsolete technologies called "books." Of course, the book will be here to stay indefinitely, if only in its reincarnated eBook form. While… Continue Reading

Online Continuing Legal Education for the 21st Century

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Online Resources

You probably know that Rocket Matter is the premier web-based case management system for attorneys (including The Mac Lawyer).  However, Rocket Matter now offers outstanding online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) too.  The following press release explains the details of RocketCLE:  Rocket Matter® Announces Online Continuing Legal Education Platform, RocketCLE – New web-based CLE platform raises bar for… Continue Reading

Guest Post :: Dropbox is Sweeping the World, So We Integrated Rocket Matter With It

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, Software, Technology

The following Guest Post is provided exclusively to The Mac Lawyer from Larry Port about an exciting new development with Rocket Matter: Earlier this year at ABA Techshow, when talking to The Mac Lawyer and TechnoEsq (Finis Price) in the actual flesh, we asked, what, if any feature, would they want to see in Rocket… Continue Reading

New Legal Productivity Blog

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Online Resources

If you are looking for ideas to help you effectively run your law firm, you should check out Legal Productivity.  Its stated mission is "to provide creative and useful insights into the business of law and have fun doing so. We wish to help people navigate the truth and the myths when it comes to alternative… Continue Reading

Guest Post :: Is Cloud Storage Secure Enough For Lawyers?

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, Software, Technology

The following Guest Post is from my friend and technology wizard, Tomasz Stasiuk: There is a widening divide among lawyers: those who embrace cloud based services because of the advantages they provide (distributed off site storage, synchronization, and access) and those who are justifiably concerned about putting clients’ documents into someone else’s hands. Using cloud based… Continue Reading

Free Federal Rules of Evidence 2010

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Online Resources

Did you know that you can download a free pdf version of the Federal Rules of Evidence 2010 from the Federal Evidence Review website? This pdf gives you a number of benefits including: Fully searchable text using the Acrobat Reader Search tool; Hyperlink (jump links) on the Index page to take you directly to a… Continue Reading

Happy Third Anniversary to MILO

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Online Resources

It seems like just yesterday that Grant Griffiths and I were discussing the fact that there should be a "better" group for attorneys to discuss how to best use Macs in their practices.  From that discussion, the Macs In Law Offices (MILO) forum was born and it was founded on February 17, 2007.  Today, a mere… Continue Reading

Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (Conclusion)

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, Software

Ultimately, you, the user, will have to determine if this “working in the cloud” is for you. Legitimate and less-legitimate concerns about the safety of your data and the security of your confidential information will be a topic for debate in another article. Consider, though, how much of your confidential life is already online—banks, insurance… Continue Reading

Guest Post :: Life in “The Cloud” (Evernote)

By J. Benjamin Stevens on Posted in Guest Posts, Online Resources, Software

Finally, for all the data flotsam and jetsam we accumulate, there’s an application to make your online life searchable. Evernote gives you a central database to keep accounts, passwords, bookmarks, notes, recipes or whatever you want. It stores them securely and keeps it all easily accessible in numerous ways. Evernote is an application you install… Continue Reading