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Profit & Loss: a financial visibility metric that drives sustainable legal practice

The profitability of a law firm is not just a year-end concern. For sole practitioners, it's a continuous operational signal which can (or at least, should!) be visible throughout the year. Unlike larger firms with dedicated finance departments, solos must function simultaneously as lawyer, manager, and financial steward.

Revolutionizing Legal Practice: AI-Driven Conflict Screening and Compliance

Revolutionizing Legal Practice: AI-Driven Conflict Screening and Compliance

Conflict checks are more than a compliance step, they are a cornerstone of legal ethics and client trust. Yet, for decades, lawyers have spent countless hours manually sifting through files, spreadsheets, or index cards, trying to ensure no conflicts of interest exist. In an age where client expectations are accelerating

The Compliance Myth: Why "Zero Activity" Doesn't Mean "Zero Work"

The Compliance Myth: Why "Zero Activity" Doesn't Mean "Zero Work"

As a Canadian legal professional, managing a Trust Account is one of your most sacred responsibilities. It is also one of the most common areas where compliance errors occur—often due to a simple misunderstanding of the rules. The Myth: "No Transactions, No Reconciliation" Many practitioners believe that

Streamline Your Practice: How uLaw’s Modern Intake & Virtual Verification Helps Canadian Lawyers

Streamline Your Practice: How uLaw’s Modern Intake & Virtual Verification Helps Canadian Lawyers

As a Canadian lawyer, client intake and compliance are essential—but often fragmented and time-consuming. From verifying identities to managing client data, juggling multiple tools can slow your workflow and increase errors. Imagine this scenario: A client in Markham has an accident and needs legal representation from a lawyer in

Making Legal-Aid Billing Work: Insights from Tuscano Law using uLawPractice

Making Legal-Aid Billing Work: Insights from Tuscano Law using uLawPractice

In Canada, one of the biggest challenges for lawyers doing legal-aid work is how to make the economics work while maintaining high-quality service and keeping practice management efficient. In a recent interview, Arica Tuscano, founder of Tuscano Law (Surrey, British Columbia) shared her experience navigating these challenges in the context

Virtual Client Verification Made Simple: How uLaw Keeps Lawyers Compliant in a Post-COVID Era

Virtual Client Verification Made Simple: How uLaw Keeps Lawyers Compliant in a Post-COVID Era

In today’s digital-first world, lawyers and paralegals rarely meet every client face-to-face. Yet, client identity verification remains a non-negotiable part of legal due diligence. The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) requires proper verification even when meetings are held online — and that’s where uLaw’s Virtual Verification comes in.

Year-End Is Coming: Why Canadian Lawyers Can’t Afford to Wing It

Year-End Is Coming: Why Canadian Lawyers Can’t Afford to Wing It

As the fiscal year comes to a close, Canadian lawyers and paralegals everywhere face the same daunting reality: the compliance clock is ticking. This period is notoriously stressful. Between meticulous trust reconciliations, preparing financial statements, filing HST, and bracing for the inevitable year-end audits, the regulatory demands from the Law

Q&A with paralegal & notary Thamara Jeyakumar

Q&A with paralegal & notary Thamara Jeyakumar

As part of uLawPractice’s 2025 Spot Light series, where we profile some of the legal minds who comprise the legal profession, our team recently sat down with Thamara Jeyakumar. Jeyakumar is the founder and managing director of Alpha Legal Services. Based in Scarborough and operating as a licensed paralegal

Maximizing Profitability: The Power of uLaw Quickview and Work In Progress for Legal Professionals

Maximizing Profitability: The Power of uLaw Quickview and Work In Progress for Legal Professionals

For legal professionals, converting work into realized revenue is the core of a sustainable practice. Work In Progress (WIP), defined as unbilled fees and disbursements, represents a significant asset that, if managed poorly, can lead to lost revenue and audit headaches. Integrated practice management and accounting solutions like uLawPractice provide

Cheque Printing Made Effortless: How uLaw Simplifies Financial Workflows for Legal Professionals

Cheque Printing Made Effortless: How uLaw Simplifies Financial Workflows for Legal Professionals

For most lawyers and paralegals, managing disbursements and expenses is a necessary but time-consuming part of running a compliant legal practice. Between tracking expenses, entering data, and ensuring accuracy, even small financial tasks can quickly pile up. One area that often creates frustration? Cheque printing. That’s where uLaw steps

How to Use the Revenue & Expense Overview in uLaw FinSight Dashboard

How to Use the Revenue & Expense Overview in uLaw FinSight Dashboard

Running a law practice means balancing two equally important priorities: serving your clients and keeping your business financially healthy. Too often, busy lawyers only focus on billing without paying close attention to how expenses affect overall profitability. That’s where the Revenue & Expense Overview in the uLaw FinSight Dashboard

Profitability at a Glance – Why It Matters Most for Solo Lawyers

Profitability at a Glance – Why It Matters Most for Solo Lawyers

Every business needs to know if it’s profitable. But for solo lawyers, profitability isn’t just a number — it’s the difference between running a sustainable practice and constantly scrambling to keep the lights on. That’s why the uLaw FinSight Dashboard includes Profitability at a Glance: a clear,

Why Start & End Times on Legal Aid Dockets Matter – And How uLaw Has You Covered

Why Start & End Times on Legal Aid Dockets Matter – And How uLaw Has You Covered

If you’ve ever dealt with legal aid billing, you know how strict the requirements can be. One common frustration we hear from lawyers is: “I need the legal aid dockets to indicate both the start and end time for the hours I work. As it stands, the dockets I

Simplify Client Onboarding with uLaw’s Client Portal and Virtual Verification

Simplify Client Onboarding with uLaw’s Client Portal and Virtual Verification

Onboarding new clients shouldn’t feel like a full-time job. At uLaw Practice, we understand that the first step in working with a new client—collecting information, verifying their identity, and meeting regulatory obligations—can take up valuable time that could be spent on billable work. That’s why we

Introducing the uLaw FinSight Dashboard – Clear Insight Into Your Firm’s Finances

Introducing the uLaw FinSight Dashboard – Clear Insight Into Your Firm’s Finances

Running a law practice means more than just winning cases — it means running a business. For many legal professionals, staying on top of billing, collections, expenses, and compliance can feel overwhelming. That’s where the new uLaw FinSight Dashboard steps in. At uLaw, our mission has always been simple: make

Hands-on with Legal Tech: Anderson College Paralegal Students Train with uLawPractice

Hands-on with Legal Tech: Anderson College Paralegal Students Train with uLawPractice

Anderson College paralegal students were recently visited by representatives from uLawPractice, a leading Canadian legal practice management and accounting platform, to receive an in-depth presentation on the intersection of technology, compliance, and legal accounting. On July 15, at Anderson’s Mississauga Campus, students participated in a guest lecture titled “Everything

Spot Light: Erin Rochon on the Evolution of Bookkeeping and the Unique Challenges of Legal Finance

Spot Light: Erin Rochon on the Evolution of Bookkeeping and the Unique Challenges of Legal Finance

In this installment of uLaw’s ongoing Spot Light series, we turn our attention to the professionals behind the scenes who keep legal practices compliant, organized, and financially sound. Erin Rochon, founder of Rochon & Associates Pro-Active Bookkeeping, has been at the helm of her own firm since 2013. What

uLaw 2025 Calendar Update

uLaw 2025 Calendar Update

In 2025, the uLawPractice engineering team introduced a small but impactful enhancement to its calendar module with the release of the Team Calendar feature. This update aims to improve intra-firm scheduling transparency and operational coordination by enabling a firm-wide, real-time overview of all personnel activity. Called the "Team Calendar&

Why uLaw makes sense for British Columbia law firms

Why uLaw makes sense for British Columbia law firms

While America might be a stone's throw away for a few B.C. law firms operating close to their southern neighbour, the truth is that Canada has a very different regulatory regime, and it certainly has a different legal system. Each province itself is a different jurisdiction, and

uLaw wins spring 2025 Top Performer award at Sourceforge

uLaw wins spring 2025 Top Performer award at Sourceforge

uLawPractice is excited to announce it is a winner of the Top Performer award from SourceForge, the world's largest software reviews and comparison website. April 30 2025 – uLawPractice announced today that it has been awarded the Spring 2025 Top Performer Awar by SourceForge in the category of Law

uLaw new feature: Event Timeline

uLaw new feature: Event Timeline

Depending on which area of practice you are working in, some legal matters can take place over a very long period of time. Some legal matters take place over the course of several months or years. Because of this, it can sometimes be a little difficult to discern the order

Q&A with Ottawa Immigration Lawyer Claire Houkayem

Q&A with Ottawa Immigration Lawyer Claire Houkayem

As part of uLawPractice's ongoing Spot Light series, our team speaks with lawyers from across Canada. We explore what drew them to the legal profession, and how they built their careers. In this article, we spoke with Claire Houkayem, an Ottawa-based lawyer who specializes in Immigration Law and

uLaw's 4 top features according to Lena Legal Services

uLaw's 4 top features according to Lena Legal Services

As a firm comprised of an equity & justice lawyer/consultant and a bookkeeper/assistant who is just learning about the processes of how legal billing operates according to the Law Society of Ontario, uLaw and their support team have been instrumental to our success. N. Gitanjali Lena (LLB, LLM)

New Superior Court Appointments in March 2025

New Superior Court Appointments in March 2025

The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has announced the appointment of several distinguished members to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and its Family Court. These appointments, made under the judicial appointments process of the Government of Canada, reflect the continued commitment to ensuring

Discover uLaw PseudoPartner

Discover uLaw PseudoPartner

uLaw’s AI Prompt Engineering team is currently gathering client input to help train AI models on the subtleties of various Canadian legal fields. Building on the foundation of our existing cloud-based practice management and legal accounting and practice management platform, we introduce uLaw PseudoPartner—a custom AI model designed