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

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

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

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

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

Abstract: This paper aims to educate Canadian sole practitioners and small law firms about the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) accrued by maintaining various forms of automated and outsourced bookkeeping and legal accounting software services. In the last decade, legal accounting and practice management bookkeeping software has rapidly matured, providing

Unrestrained by workplace conventions of the last century, a growing number of Canadians are finding themselves operating in a compelling space which allows them to traverse the globe armed with a laptop, a passport, and a wireless internet signal. Called ‘digital nomads’, thousands of workers, whether they’re teachers, editors,

Abstract: This paper aims to educate Canadian sole practitioners and small law firms about the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) accrued by maintaining various forms of automated and outsourced bookkeeping and legal accounting software services. In the last decade, legal accounting and practice management bookkeeping software has rapidly matured, providing

As part of its ongoing Spot Light series profiling Canadian lawyers across Canada, uLaw recently sat down with Toronto-based lawyer Katherine Cash. Cash is a new lawyer. She was called to the bar at the beginning of the year and within a few months she launched her own solo law

As part of its ongoing Spot Light series on Canadian legal practitioners, uLaw recently sat down with Martez Jones, an Ottawa-based paralegal with a wealth of experience in landlord and tenant disputes, small claims issues, and human rights violations. Since 2013 Jones has worked for himself as a paralegal. He

As uLaw's Spot Light series continues to illustrate, many Ontario paralegals are entering the profession after long and fruitful careers in other disciplines before eventually launching their own private practice. That is certainly the case for this week's "Spot Light" interview with Amanda J.

The team at uLawPractice would like to take a moment to say HAPPY CANADA DAY to all our clients, friends, families and fellow Canadians who are all part of this great nation. With such strange weather all year we are happy to see Canada Day, July 1, with such fantastic

Legal firms in Ontario (and other jurisdictions as well) can expect to get audited once every few years despite submitting annual self-reported data pertaining to financial management and practice management of their firms. When a spot audit is initiated, it usually merely begins as routine scrutiny of a firm'

From pursuing offenders for 13 years as an OPP officer to working for the Crown for two decades, Carol Mitchell’s career shows us that paralegals come from all walks of life, including the other side of the courtroom. As part of its Spot Light series, the uLaw team sat

OTTAWA--Discount and write-off insights have been successfully implemented and recently introduced to uLawPractice's cloud-based practice management and legal accounting system for Canadian practitioners. With the use of this new tool, users will be able to generate a report which gives useful intelligence to a lawyer regarding the total

May 29, 2019--OTTAWA--After rigorous development and testing, uLawPractice’s financial management coding team has successfully implemented two new enhanced features for users: support for American Express, and also uLaw’s added ability to handle multiple trust accounts. American Express Support Depending on their client-base and personal preferences, uLaw users are

As part of its ongoing Spot Light series probing how lawyers first got involved in the Canadian legal landscape, uLaw recently spoke with Ilene Solomon, a Toronto-based lawyer specializing exclusively in US-Canada immigration law. Solomon has been a lawyer for seven years and in 2018 she opened her own legal

First thing in the morning, uLaw is open on my desktop. It’s my primary application of use. Why? It’s the ultimate at-your-fingertips legal management tool, keeping me ever-vigilant on my client and matter account management and legal accounting. This application strengthens my ability to be proactive and never

Marketing your new law firm in 2019 The ever increasing presence of social media is beginning to shift how consumers hear about products and services that can help their lives. Successful entrepreneurs and paralegals are jumping on these trends and stomping on their competitors. Take a look at how to

Jan. 29, 2019—OTTAWA—Developers at uLawPractice implemented new changes to the manner in which rates are handled by multi-user law firms operating uLaw’s cloud-based practice management and legal accounting suite. Inside profile setting, under “taxes/rates”, users may now manually enter different rates for administrators, lawyers, law students

Not all forms of software were created equally, and for about a decade it has become increasingly clear that computer usage in general is moving almost exclusively into the realm of the Internet. Take Skype for example. Microsoft is pushing the popular video/voice chat service into the cloud , and

Ontario Regulators are now considering whether to alter the restrictions placed on real estate lawyers who obtain kickbacks and other perks from title insurers. According to audit data obtained in 2016 and 2017, 1 in 3 real estate law firms which deal with title insurers are not disclosing the financial

This is a summarized post of THIS WEEK'S WEBINAR (Nov. 23, 2018). Subscribe here and listen/watch our uLaw webinar for the week SIGNUP FOR THE WEBINAR NOW For a long time, the only legal businesses capable of obtaining actionable insights into their firm's dealings were

In order for a lawyer to function properly in Canadian society, it almost goes without saying that practitioners are meant to tenaciously pursue the interests of their clients while serving the court. Ideally nobody else should stand in the way of attorney-client privilege. Everybody knows it’s integral to the