uLaw Spot Light: Paralegal & PSW Sarah Salisbury If you're going to get into the field of law, your core reasoning should be that you actually want to help people. That's what Sarah Salisbury's message is to the next generation of legal practitioners. "You can't just look at it
Legal Aid Ontario Board Chair announced The Ontario government has nominated James Stephen Pengelly as the new Chair of the Board of Legal Aid Ontario. Mr. Pengelly is currently a board member of Legal Aid Ontario. His accomplished legal career spans over 25 years. He was most recently the interim Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian
Legal Aid Manitoba joins forces with University Law students are now allowed to provide legal services to prison law as well as family law in Manitoba. Dr. Richard Jochelson, Dean of the Faculty of Law, and Peter Kingsley, Q.C., Executive Director of Legal Aid Manitoba, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the expansion of services
Spot light Q&A with Shevas Legal Services As part of it's ongoing Spot Light series to showcase Canadian legal practitioners, uLaw recently sat down with Elisheva Eisenberg-Alter, a licensed paralegal and notary public with a specialization in tax and bookkeeping. Eisenberg-Alter got her start as a paralegal in 2010 but has also worked in finance
BC government to consolidate regulation of lawyers, paralegals, notaries The Ministry of Attorney General seeks to modernize the regulatory framework for legal professionals in B.C., including lawyers, notaries and paralegals, to better protect people accessing legal services and help improve access. On March 1, 2022, David Eby, Attorney General, wrote to the presidents of the Law Society of
Department of Justice Canada Funds Program for Youth in Custody or on Probation Funding from the Department of Justice Canada’s Youth Justice Fund is helping the Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN) develop and deliver a pilot public legal education program for youth in custody or on probation. Together 180 focuses on the areas of law that most affect young people during rehabilitation
uLaw becomes first of its kind available on APPLE WATCH We tell you more than just the time. uLawPractice is now available on Apple Watch. As of March 2022 it is the top downloaded practice management software application available on the apple store for that category. Check contact management, matter management, compliance analytics and accounting straight from your watch! The
Spot Light: Q&A with kingston paralegal Shasta Pearson As part of its ongoing Spot Light series on Canadian lawyers, uLaw recently sat down with Shasta Pearson, who runs Limestone Legal Services, a boutique firm in Kingston, Ontario. Q: How long have you been a legal practitioner? And what's your academic and work history prior to getting
How uLaw handles LawPay QuickBill workflows In this article we’re going to tell you about how LawPay’s “QuickBill” feature works with uLawPractice under the hood. The end result is a seamless flow whereby uLaw sends your client a QuickBill which they can easily pay into the right bank accounts that your firm is using.
LSO cancels exams after candidates sneak peak of the test beforehand TORONTO, ON — To protect the public and the integrity of its licensing process, the Law Society has undertaken the decision to cancel the upcoming barrister and solicitor examinations, scheduled to be written from March 8 to 11, and March 22 to 25, respectively. This decision has been made as a
Gov't expands 'eIntake' electronic criminal charge filing in Ontario The Ontario government is expanding a digital platform used by its police to send criminal charges electronically. Announced earlier this month in combination with a swath of new spending commitments, the Solicitor General suggests this will allow police to spend more time fighting crime. The eIntake system will be available
LAO awards Lois Cromarty prestigious award Lois Cromarty, executive director of the Northumberland Community Legal Centre, is the recipient of the Sidney B. Linden Award for 2021. The Sidney B. Linden Award is given by Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) to exceptional individuals who help low‑income Ontarians in the pursuit of access to justice. Lois has
Ontario government announces $65 million fund for remote hearing tech Remote hearings are not going away anytime soon. The Ontario government has recently announced that it will be spending $65 million over the course of five years to revamp its tech. Acknowledging the advantages to remote hearings, the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General highlighted four key areas that the funding
Belleville Paralegal Peter Rodgers takes home platinum community award He wanted to shout it from the rooftops, but he knew it’d give extra motivation to his opponents. Peter Rodgers won a platinum award for Community Votes Belleville for 2021 in the category of paralegal services. Rodgers is a sole practitioner who has run his own legal business since
uLaw speech to text: dictate your dockets to uLaw! We always say that uLawPractice works as your digital legal assistant. And now, as of uLaw's newest 2022 tech update, you can begin to talk to uLaw. Using machine learning algorithms, uLaw developers have recently added a new feature into the system which uses speech to text directly
How to generate BC Small Claims & LaTB forms with uLaw If you’re looking for a quick way to generate Small Claims court forms or SCC court forms as a legal practitioner in British Columbia, you’ve come to the right spot. uLawPractice’s development team has recently implemented a new feature which now supports these forms. This means that
LawPay integrates with uLawPractice ONTARIO, CA (October 21, 2021) -- LawPay, the leading online payment solution for legal professionals, has annoucned their new partnership with uLawPractice. This new integration combines uLaw's accounting-focused, cloud-based practice management solution with LawPay's digital payment platform uLaw is Canada's most trusted legal accounting
Managing permissions for bookkeepers and assistants to connect to your bank This article is the last in a series of uLaw walkthroughs on bank integration. The (2) importation of your banking statements for legal accounting purposes just got a whole lot easier, and you can read (1) how to connect it by clicking here. Even sole practitioners often make use of
Connect your bank to uLaw and automate your statements with this new feature uLawPractice is getting smarter. Canada’s most trusted cloud-based practice management and legal accounting suite has just gained the ability to automate the bank importation process, once and for all. Earlier this month, uLaw developers released a powerful new feature which allows users to automate the statement importation process. This
Order ASAP cheques directly through uLaw OTTAWA, ON, Aug 23, 2021 – ASAP Cheques, a leading provider of cheques to financial institutions across Canada, has partnered and integrated its offerings with uLawPractice, Canada’s most trusted legal accounting and practice management software. Through uLawPractice itself, law firms will be able to enhance their digital bookkeeping and accounting
Directly importing bank statements into your accounts or matters This is the second walkthrough in a series of articles written about an important new bank-linking series announcing a highly important uLaw feature for linking your bank account with uLaw. To read the first one, click here. So you’ve already linked your bank accounts with uLawPractice and you now
Bankruptcy and insolvency expert warns lawyers need to keep up with tech to stay relevant The legal profession in Ontario needs to immediately make some changes if it is to keep up to speed with rapid technological advancement. This was one of the messages delivered to members of the legal profession by longtime lawyer Franklyn Harris Bennett, who was awarded an honorary degree by the
Durham College to use uLaw EDU in curriculum Students at Durham College’s paralegal program will begin using uLawPractice’s EDU system to conduct legal accounting and practice management exercises as part of that school’s curriculum. “A modern legal education curriculum involves learning the actual business and compliance activities that a majority of lawyers and paralegals need
uLaw wins 2021 Top Performer Award from SourceForge Due to its rising popularity as Canada's most trusted practice management and legal accounting software suite, uLawPractice has earned an award from the popular review website, SourceForge.com As of August 3, 2021, uLawPracticeis now the proud recipient of an award for the category of Law Practice Management
George Brown College adopts uLaw's EDU system for paralegal school Dec. 17 2020—Students at George Brown College’s paralegal school will soon be learning how to automate their practice management and legal accounting with the use of uLawPractice’s EDU system. On Tuesday uLaw partnered with the faculty of Legal Studies at George Brown College to bring uLawPractice free
