uLaw adds to its growing team of Consultant Partners, further strengthening resources for it’s Canadian, cloud based, integrated legal practice management, general accounting and trust accounting, system. Ottawa Canada August 2 2016 – uLawPractice, the leading Canadian cloud-based, law practice management and accounting software provider, has announced the addition of

Today is the last day for registration for this evening's CCLA CPD seminar hosted at the Barrister's Lounge in Ottawa court. Paralegals, lawyers and students who are looking to learn more about how to effectively manage the administrative and accounting components of their legal business are

Students enrolled in Algonquin College’s paralegal program are exposed to several practice-oriented educational tools, which now includes uLawPractice, a powerful automated legal accounting and practice management suite. In August, Algonquin College began collaborating with uLaw to outfit its paralegal program with uLaw’s EDU environment. Faculty can use the

OTTAWA--Paralegal students at Algonquin Careers Academy campuses in Ottawa and Mississauga will be utilizing uLawPractice’s web-based EDU environment to learn legal accounting and practice management as part of their curriculum. “This new partnership unlocks the doors of automation for the next generation of paralegals in Ontario. With uLaw, students

While things might look a little bit different this year for students entering the paralegal program at Algonquin Careers Academy campuses this fall, instructors will be welcoming the class to a digitally-driven curriculum which focuses its training on the newest and best technologies available in private practice. In 2019, Algonquin

The government of Alberta declared a new name for the Provincial Court of Alberta. Effective on April Fool's Day 2023, it will be renamed to the "Alberta Court of Justice". According to statements made by the provincial government, the name change was requested by the court.

(Peter Rodgers is a Belleville-based paralegal who runs his own firm, Rodgers Paralegal) Recently, when I had a client meet with me to use my services, I presented them with a retainer agreement. To my surprise (at first), they flipped through the agreement and went to sign it without reading

July 2023 Update - It has come to our attention that the latest statistics from USA indicate that the total number of lawyers in USA has grown to 1.33 million as of June 2023. Every few weeks or so, Gartner Digital Markets, a company specializing in curating up-to-date ratings

Change is in the air for Canada’s top court, and it’s in the form of a new Chief Justice whose legal decisions will likely leave a lasting mark on Canadian jurisprudence for years to come. While judges in Canada often remain out of the spotlight for a number

When a lawyer or paralegal is busy satisfying clients and pursuing their legal matters, it can be easy to become disconnected from the actual financials of the business. So exactly how much money is the firm spending each week? How much money is coming in? Such questions can be difficult

A momentous shift is taking place in Canada’s oldest regulator of lawyers. Last year the organization distanced itself from its colonial past by shedding “Upper Canada” from its name, and now there’s a new treasurer in town. His name is Malcolm M. Mercer. In late June he was

If you're a user of uLawPractice, then the fastest way to find out current statistics on your law firm are to simply login to the uLawPractice app and run advanced analytics on the freshest data available to you. uLaw insights and analytics provides you with up-to-date and current

What’s the fastest way to tell where all your firm’s expenses are going? Should you get an assistant to trawl through all your accounting books for several hours in order to come up with a few answers? Or is it better to use advanced computing to cut down

(This post was originally written in 2017) A special celebration is taking place at the Lamont Learning Centre to mark the passing of an entire decade of paralegal regulation in the province of Ontario. In 2007, the Law Society of Upper Canada (now LSO) assumed responsibility for paralegals, making this

The team at uLaw is poised to win a total of six awards in an upcoming annual competition hosted by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. uLaw users are being asked to cast their ballots in support of the uLawPractice team, and in return users will be entered into uLaw's own

When Andres Abogado, Barrister & Solicitor at Vancouver, BC was asked about uLaw and his customer experience he said : "I was audited by the Law Society a couple of weeks ago. They were impressed about the functionality of the software and they even went on saying that with the

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

Modern law offices are now capable of generating and managing invoices speedily and with impeccable acuity. With the assistance of automation, firms can cut down on non-billable hours by significantly reducing the amount of administrative work required for a firm to actually get paid for the work they conduct on

Seek shelter from the heat wave this Friday and join us online to learn how to gain insight into how your law firm is performing. It wasn’t even that long ago that law firm analytics were reserved only for the largest and most prestigious firms. Deep pocketed Bay Street

A modern-era legal firm, especially if it's small, has to operate with minimal overhead in order to remain competitive. As a solo practitioner it's very advantageous to be able to cut down on time spent undertaking tasks not directly related to billable hours. This is where