Advice from Canadian practitioners: uLaw in my business How does uLaw free up more time for Joseph Behar and his clients? Learn how Joseph Behar, a paralegal in Ontario, collects payments from clients and draws up retainers and handles his accounting with uLawPractice. Hear how George Thelwell, a paralegal and instructor at Cestar College, uses uLaw as part
4 reasons to become a sole proprietor paralegal Sole proprietors make up the backbone of the legal industry in Canada, and paralegals in particular often end up working for themselves. By deciding to to strike out on their own, paralegals can also make huge advancements towards their professional growth by accepting clients whose legal predicaments vary from one
8 upsetting stats about the mental health of lawyers Despite numerous proclamations and attempts to publicize woes related to workplace stress in recent years, the legal profession continues to be plagued with high incidences of depression and substance abuse issues in comparison to the general public. It's a worrying trend that's been written about for
LSO launches program to help lawyer's mental health The Law Society of Ontario has recently launched a new website in order to combat mental illness among its licencees. Dubbed the "Well-being Resource Centre", the new site has aggregated several new & pre-existing mental health support initiatives all under a single area of the law society'
Q&A with Toronto lawyer and business litigator Tina Lee As part of our ongoing Spot Light series, uLaw recently sat down with Tina Lee, an employment lawyer and business litigator based in Toronto. For about 15 years Lee has been helping clients, most often businesses, find cost-effective solutions to complicated commercial legal matters. Lee says she first got heavily
Q&A with OPA president George Brown on how he started as paralegal Ontario Paralegal Association's new president, George Brown, is no stranger to the paralegal profession. As part of its Spot Light series about influential lawyers and paralegals in Ontario, uLaw spoke to Brown to get some background on his history with the law. Brown says he first started getting
Nov. 2 CPD Webinar: Bookkeeping Compliance Compliance with regulators in the realm of financial and practice management is a highly important facet to any smoothly-functioning law firm in Canada. But preparing up-to-date compliance documents can also be a time consuming chore if it's conducted in a less-than-optimal fashion. The way a firm maintains its
Famous for his inventions, Edison was also an R&D magnate While his many inventions and innovations often are the reason for his continued fame in the modern world, Thomas Edison also had a far-reaching contribution to business through his systemization of the R&D process. In Menlo Park, California, Edison owned a research laboratory which created a process where
Q&A with Toronto immigration Lawyers Rashid Urosevic Every year thousands of newcomers to Canada use the services of immigration lawyers to better navigate the byzantine and ever-changing regulations and hurdles which must be faced in order for permanent settlement to occur. For our ongoing “Spot Light” series about Ontario lawyers, uLaw reached out to Rafeena Rashid and
uLaw nominated for "Innovative Services" Edison Award uLawPractice’s flagship cloud-based practice management and legal accounting suite is now nominated for a prestigious Edison Award. Under awards category “Innovative Services”, uLaw stands shoulder to shoulder with other revolutionary tech startups and Fortune 500 companies nominated for 2019. The Edison Awards are a set of 16 awards that
Nov 9 uLaw tech update sees new features in system It's an exciting week at uLaw. Developers at our team successfully implemented several new features to the uLaw system this month affecting admin mode, calendar; invoice changes, and reconciliation signatures. A large portion of the successfully implemented features are to accommodate a smoother interface between multiple users on
Precautions for lawyers to take in the wireless world The modern smartphone and, to a lesser extent, the tablet have become indispensable tools in the management of your practice. Such power, mobility and convenience, however comes with some security vulnerabilities that can be somewhat mitigated with a few security practices that should become part of your professional life. In
Q&A with Toronto immigration Lawyers Rashid Urosevic Every year thousands of newcomers to Canada use the services of immigration lawyers to better navigate the byzantine and ever-changing regulations and hurdles which must be faced in order for permanent settlement to occur. For our ongoing “Spot Light” series about Ontario lawyers, uLaw reached out to Rafeena Rashid and
Law destined to change says Ottawa Family lawyer Darrin Clayton When Ottawa-based family lawyer Darrin Clayton first started out as a practitioner fresh out of school in the 1990s, he says there was already a huge amount of negativity brewing among tired, disillusioned lawyers nearing the end of their careers. These were the type of practitioners, he says, who rejected
Scott: Your personal info is at risk by under-regulation of blockchain (A focus on Health Data Systems) Not everyone believes that crypto-currencies are the future, but most will agree that the blockchain technology behind these currencies is here to stay, and it might be affecting your personal information in the years to come. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that records
Antarpreet Kahlon says saving client from deportation among top moments as lawyer For some newcomers to Canada, a brush with the justice system can mean more than a jail term, fines, or a criminal record. It can lead, quite suddenly, to deportation from the country, with little to no chance of a return, says Mississauga-based criminal lawyer Antarpreet Kahlon. Whether it’s
uLaw Practice wins five reader's choice awards uLawPractice is the proud recipient of five separate 2018 “Reader’s Choice” Awards issued by Canadian Lawyer. Announced Monday, uLaw was the winner of awards in the following categories: 1. Calendar & Docketing Software/Solutions 2. Cloud-based Practice Management 3. Matter Management 4. Case Management 5.Time & Billing. “We’
Sept 28: LSO calls new lawyers to the Bar Droves of new lawyers will be called to the Bar in Toronto Friday, Sept 28 at Roy Thomson Hall. Candidates and accompanying guests are invited to share photos and congratulatory messages form the ceremony on social media using the hashtags #lawyered and #CalltotheBar. uLaw welcomes all young and new licensees
uLaw Amazon $200 Amazon draw winner announced To the friends of uLaw, As promised, the team has held a draw of all the names of loyal clients who boldly stepped up to vote for uLawPractice, your digital legal assistant, at this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards, hosted by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. James Hill of HillCowan Legal
Radan Rusev: a lawyer who likes his numbers After all the paperwork is filed, the signatures signed, and the money handed over, Radan Rusev says the most enjoyable part of his job is when he’s working with young people closing their first home purchase. “It’s always an emotional moment full of excitement,” Rusev says. Not all
Lawyer & Mediator Sina Hariri remarks on career as Sole practitioner Unlike the way they’re portrayed in movies, not all lawyers are confrontational and irate characters whose approach to law and life in general is rigid and argumentative. This is certainly not the case for Sina Hariri, a family lawyer and mediator based in Toronto. After only a few minutes
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
Spot Light: Q&A with Criminal Lawyer Lori Anne Thomas Prominent Toronto lawyer Lori Anne Thomas spoke with uLawPractice about how her career started and also her thoughts on what impacted her career the most. Since she got her start in law 9 years ago, Thomas has become well known as a criminal lawyer and has since obtained awards for
Legal Aid Ontario releases "know your rights' sex abuse info Sex abuse runs rampant in society and is often under reported and hard to police. Part of Legal Aid Ontario's mandate is to provide legal support for under-represented and vulnerable members of society, thus a recent info graphic was produced by the organization to educate the public about
Tech update & how-to: Import Excel Dockets Friends of uLaw, we want to walk you through how to import Excel dockets into the uLaw system. Perhaps you’re wondering why you might want to do this. Well, first of all, uLaw stores all of this information for you so it can be safely stored on the cloud
