We know that the film and television industry portrays the legal profession as non-stop excitement and drama, such as in Chicago Justice and Law and Order, but the reality is that being a lawyer is not that at all. Quite the contrary, being a lawyer often involves long hours filled with tremendous demands and stress, advocating for your clients, meeting billable hour requirements, long days engaging in client development, and getting your bills submitted and…

Optimize Law Firm Revenue Innovative solutions for smarter billing have arrived to drive revenue increases for your law firm. Optimize Bills Review and Submission Lawyers are all too familiar with the rush to get bills out every month. According to The Un-Billable Hour, a law practice and advisory podcast finds attorneys are losing money with problems due to non-billable tasks like, “disorganization, slow response to clients, late billing invoices and not tracking time,” which results…

Managing local counsel and assembling their billing is a time-consuming challenge.  Manual entry and non-compliant billing cause delays in the legal billing process, with both lead and local counsel losing time, productivity, and ultimately profit. Without accurate and organized systems in place to manage the local counsel billing process, attorneys can expect to continue to lose out on revenue and un-billable administrative time. However, optimizing local counsel management is now made easier than ever before…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning may feel mystical and hard to understand. However, as Arthur C. Clark said, "[a]ny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Machine learning may look like magic, but under the hood, it's easy to understand.  Let’s start by understanding traditional programming. In my first computer class, the instructor did an exercise that stuck with me. It goes like this:  “Mark, please ask your neighbor Katy to stand up and walk…