VIDEO: Law Society of 'Upper Canada' no more? One of the oldest law societies in the English-speaking world might be changing its name after more than 220 years of being known as the Law Society of Upper Canada. In a bid to modernize the name representing the society of more than 50,000 lawyers and paralegals in
Vote for uLaw and enter your chance to win $200 Amazon.ca gift card Friends of uLaw, we have a very important request to make of you. Our practice management and legal accounting software has been nominated in several categories of Canadian Lawyer Magazine's Reader's Choice awards for technology in 2018-19. According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, if you fill
Vote for uLaw and get chance to win $200 Amazon.ca gift card Friends of uLaw, we have a very important request to make of you. Our practice management and legal accounting software has been nominated in several categories of Canadian Lawyer Magazine's Reader's Choice awards for technology in 2018-19. According to Canadian Lawyer Magazine, if you fill
(Untitled) Hello friends of uLaw, Our software is now nominated for a very special awards category in Canadian Lawyer Mag's upcoming InHouse Reader's Choice Awards for 2019. We're honoured to have been nominated, but the team at uLaw needs your help to get our software
Students to learn uLaw at Seneca College paralegal program July. 26, 2021—uLawPractice partners with Seneca to support paralegal students and faculty with practice management and legal accounting. Seneca students will soon be learning how to handle their books and records as paralegals with the use of uLawPractice within the classroom. uLaw is Canada’s most trusted cloud-based
Biometric login for iOS uLaw app Say cheese! uLawPractice's mobile app for iPhone now allows users to use biometric data such as their face or fingerprint in order to log in to uLawPractice. Many mobile phones come equipped with powerful fingerprint scanners and selfie-cameras which can be used to unlock the device. As
Increase billing with WIP reports and more uLawPractice lets you generate a number of useful reports which can indicate when firms are able to bill clients. When a law firm wants to do its billing, it's important to know when you can withdraw money for services that have already been rendered. Even if a legal
Automate your own forms: a DIY-approach uLaw is now B-Y-O-F! (As in, bring your own forms) As a user of uLawPractice, you're likely already aware that your cloud-based practice management and legal accounting software can be used to automate a wide variety of court forms. Whether its small claims, License
Generating Quebec Bar's "Fiche Client" forms As part of uLawPractice's ongoing commitment for enhanced support for Canadian legal practitioners in all provinces, developers have successfully implemented new automated form support for Quebec Barreau's "Fiche Client" form. Licensees working in Quebec are obligated by the law society in that province to
Hamilton lawyer Randy Redden progresses from Broadcast to Bar After more than two decades working in the radio broadcast industry, Randy Redden knew it was time to depart from the business in 2015. Now, six years later, he’s working as a sole practitioner at his own firm in Hamilton Ontario. uLaw recently interviewed Redden to get a better
uLaw Client Portal: automating client intake Minimizing face-to-face contact is a recognized need among Canadian legal practitioners who are currently operating during the ongoing pandemic. As part of uLawPractice's legal accounting and practice management suite, our cloud-based software engineers have created a new handy tool called the uLaw Client Portal. This
Log into uLaw with biometrics! For android users, uLaw is now literally at your fingertips uLaw users are now able to log into their favourite digital legal assistant with the mere use of their finger prints; it really is that easy! Developers at uLawPractice recently forged a software linkage between android phones' fingerprint scanner
uLaw and Toggl integration: a short guide Toggl is a popular productivity and time management tool that can be integrated into Canada’s most trusted legal accounting and practice management system. While using Toggl, users may be pleased to learn that data inputted into this software can be repurposed for producing Law Society compliance documents later on.
uLaw announces first wave of Gift Card winners! To the hundreds of our loyal supporters who stepped up to vote for uLawPractice as Canada's most trusted legal accounting and practice management software, a big THANK YOU is in order. uLawPractice won in several categories during this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards hosted by Canadian Lawyer
uLaw partners with Centennial College paralegal school Dec. 14, 2020—uLawPractice partners with Centennial College to support paralegal students and faculty with practice management and legal accounting. Students enrolled at Centennial College’s paralegal program will soon be getting an introduction to uLawPractice, Canada’s most trusted legal accounting and practice management software. In December, uLawPractice partnered
Why November is an important time for law office management Law office management is important all the time. But the month of November is unique due to its timing. Soon enough, Law Society auditors will be studiously observing and running analysis algorithms on top of the financial documents submitted by law firms for the end of the year. While the
Where you’re headed: using trial balance and balance sheets Powerful new automated accounting tools make it easy to see how if your firm is heading in the right direction. Users logged into uLawPractice can navigate to Document Generation under Accounts to get a detailed scope of all accounts within your firm. This tool, trial balance, will show you all
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
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
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
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