Cloud-based software reigns supreme for COVID-friendly curricula When the pandemic struck earlier this year, it wasn’t business as usual for educators teaching legal accounting and practice management to students across Canada. In a former era, students in law clerk and paralegal programs were invited into computer labs and taught by instructors how to handle books and
Using Chrome's new PDF reader Google has recently updated the Chrome browser to version 87, which comes with a new PDF reader with a handful of new features which make it more useful. Among the new features is support for "table of contents" style outlines found within some PDF files, a "fit
uLaw tech update: fancy watches, toggl integration, new .io domain name As always, uLawPractice developers are implementing new features to the software to bring even more functionality for the hundreds of lawyers and paralegals who use uLaw in their day-to-day business activities. Here are a few of the updates and enhancements we've added to uLaw. 1. Toggl integration This
Spot Light Q&A with Darcy L. Purdy, paralegal and notary public It is often through their former careers that paralegals end up getting an introduction to certain elements of the law before pursuing the profession. This is the case for Darcy L. Purdy, an Ontario paralegal and sole practitioner who recently sat down with the uLaw team to be featured in
Spot Light: Q&A with employment lawyer Ellen Low For Ellen Low, this year has been far from business as usual for the Toronto-based employment and human rights lawyer. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the Canadian legal landscape as a whole, but Low says that this is especially the case when it comes to employment
Federation of Ontario Paralegals partners with uLaw Nov. 2, 2020 --- uLawPractice and the newly-founded Federation of Ontario Paralegals recently entered into a partnership, which will see heavily discounted rates afforded to the federation’s more than 300 members. Utilizing software-as-a-service, uLawPractice harnesses the power of automation to assist Canadian legal practitioners with the creation of compliant,
Spot Light Q&A with Lawyer Inderdeep Padda As part of its ongoing Spot Light series profiling Canadian legal practitioners, the uLaw team recently sat down with Inderdeep Padda, a real estate and criminal lawyer based in the Peel Region. Since 2015 Padda has been a licensed lawyer, and he runs his own practice, Everstone Law. uLaw spoke
The practice of law needs a shake up, says lawyer Martin Zatovkanuk Not every lawyer is content with the status quo, and that’s certainly the case for Martin Zatovkanuk. The Southern Ontario lawyer recently sat down for a SpotLight interview with the uLaw team, where he discussed a wide range of subjects, including how he got his start in the field
Spot light Q&A with Hamilton paralegal Holly Robertson As part of our ongoing Spot Light series on Canadian legal practitioners, uLaw recently sat down with Holly Robertson, a Hamilton, Ontario based paralegal and part of the team at Benchmark Paralegal. Like many paralegals who have entered the career over the last decade, Robertson started her working life outside
Friday webinar: how analytics helps your legal practice Tracking the performance of your law firm is not an easy feat! Join us for a webinar this Friday to learn how to do a deep dive into your own firm's finances In a bygone era, such analytics tools were reserved only for the largest and most elite
CPD webinar Friday: Law Society Bookkeeping Compliance Join the team at uLaw this Friday (Oct. 9, 2020) for a live CPD-approved webinar all about bookkeeping compliance. Attendees will be graced with an increased understanding of compliance from the perspective of the auditors who routinely scrutinize a firm's financial and practice management obligations. In this free
Landlord & Tenant and POA forms updated for uLaw Attention uLaw users: your court forms have officially been upgraded. After identifying that new court forms were being released by regulators, developers at uLawPractice have successfully implemented updates to the uLaw system. "So far, the only updates that we've made pertain to the Landlord & Tenant board
uLawPractice rolls out EDU platform for academic institutions As the pandemic continues to alter the way students are to resume learning in the upcoming 2020 Autumn term, paralegal schools across Ontario are turning to uLawPractice as a tool to be used in their curricula. uLawPractice works as a digital legal assistant. It’s a web-based environment used by
Loyalist College partners with uLaw Oct. 5, 2020 -- uLawPractice partners with Loyalist College to support paralegal students and faculty with practice management and legal accounting suite 2020-2025 In light of pandemic-related restrictions placed on educational institutions, teachers at Loyalist College in Belleville Ontario will be welcoming students to a blended learning curriculum for the
You have questions, uLaw has answers As Canada's only legal accounting and practice management software, uLawPractice packed full of tools fit for just about any small and mid-sized legal firm in Canada. Due to the sheer amount of the tools you can utilize, it might be a little bit intimidating sometimes to figure out
Automate, personalize your signature: uLaw tech update March 2020 Get your John Hancock ready! Developers at uLawPractice have recently implemented a new digital signature tool so users can cut down on time signing or scanning documents. By uploading a PNG image to the uLaw system, users can now make use of a 'personalized signature' tool which can
uLaw delivers practice management webinar to TriOS college As part of its outreach program to educational institutions across Canada, uLawPractice delivered a wide-ranging lecture to students and faculty at TriOS college in June. Since 2011 uLawPractice has heavily invested itself into providing educational resources to licensed paralegals and lawyers who are seeking to earn Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Fanshawe College unveils uLawPractice for 2020 paralegal program As classes ramp up for the upcoming 2020 term, paralegal students at Fanshawe College’s London, Ontario-based campus will be introduced to uLawPractice as a method of conducting coursework. uLawPractice formally partnered with Fanshawe College in June to provide faculty and classrooms with login credentials to use uLawPractice’s EDU
Tech update: SMS as 2nd-factor authentication Don't worry, we'll text you uLawPractice's development team recently implemented a new feature which will allow its users to receive a text message (SMS) code in order to log in to their system. Two-factor authentication is an important security feature in any online environment,
uLaw Statement regarding uninterrupted service during pandemic To all our loyal uLaw clients, Due to the cloud based nature of the software uLawPractice provides to Canadian law firms, services are expected to remain uninterrupted during the course of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. As of March 20, 2020 our team has not detected any interruptions, and at this
uLaw “relieves me of the mundane,” says Ont Paralegal Joseph Behar Advocating for clients while also juggling tasks related to compliance and proper bookkeeping are no easy feat for practitioners, especially solo lawyers and paralegals who comprise a huge percentage of the legal landscape. According to Ontario paralegal Joseph Behar, it’s extremely important to be able to have the time
Why we keep records: uLaw's intro to bookkeeping Due to the nature of the services lawyers and paralegals provide to the general public, special obligations are placed on legal practitioners in Canada in order to remain in compliance with federal and provincial regulators. The collection of tax and reporting of income is regulated at a federal level. As
New scratchpad implemented (uLaw tech update, March 2020) March 2, 2020 OTTAWA- After rigorous development and testing, uLaw's practice management coding team has recently implemented the scratchpad docket. Acting as an intermediary data input point, the scratchpad docket lets you time telephone conversations, legal research, and many other areas for easy docketing at the end of
Increasing billable hours for 2020 There are only so many hours in a day, and for Canadian legal practitioners, this means that there can only be a certain amount of billable hours which can be obtained. But not everything conducted in a law office constitutes billable work, which further restricts the number of obtainable billable
Q&A with Belleville Paralegal Peter Rodgers As part of uLawPractice’s ongoing Spot Light series about Canadian legal practitioners, we recently sat down with Peter Rodgers, a Belleville-based sole practitioner, to learn about his motivations for running his own legal business. Q: What prompted you to get your start in the legal profession? A: It is
