Integrated Payment Options - Webinar GET Paid for Faster! Integrated payment collection can provide your practice with many benefits. Not only does it allow for more timely payment collection and ensures there are no outstanding balances, it can even save you time. If you missed this webinar and want to learn how uLawPractice uses integrated
Introducing “BLAC”, legal aid clinic for Black Ontarians A new non-profit legal aid clinic is now open exclusively for Black Ontarians to help with access to justice. According to Legal Aid Ontario, the organization was created “for the purpose of contributing to the eradication of anti-Black racism through the provision of legal services to low-income members of Ontario’
Introducing uLawPractice - your legal accounting assistant Today’s world of legal accounting and practice management has never been easier and more cost effective for legal firms wishing to conduct business competitively in the 21st century. Introducing uLawPractice. It’s a digital assistant similar to Siri, except it does your legal accounting for you. Using a four-pillared
Join us Friday afternon to learn about uLaw in a multi-user firm Join us this Friday, June 7 for a webinar from 2-3 p.m about how to use uLawPractice's multi-user interface. For small and mid-sized firms, it’s very helpful to have a function which allows different employees to collaborate their efforts and contributions in a clearly demarcated manner.
Join us to learn how court form automation saves you time and money When: Feb 8, 2017, for 1hr from 2-3pm, Click here to register Spots are filling up quick for our webinar on additional parties & court forms! Sign up quickly for this webinar and learn how you to perform joint retainers, invoice third parties, and optimize your workflows through additional parties.
Featured Legal Mavericks: Standing Out with uLaw In the legal world, standing out can be a tough challenge. Lawyers often find themselves swimming in a sea of black suits, legal briefs, and paperwork. But what if there was a way to break free from the monotony and truly shine in your legal practice? Enter uLaw, the game-changer
Join us today: How to get started with uLaw Do you want to learn more about uLaw? Recently many lawyers and paralegals have heard through their colleagues and through educational institutions about an all-in-one software solution for managing clerical tasks associated with running a legal business Well, our team wants to set the record straight: indeed, uLawPractice was made
Judges among speakers at Ottawa Paralegal conference Two judges were present at Ottawa's Centurion Centre on Oct. 21 to serve paralegals and lawyers a mix of wisdom to promote a greater understanding of the profession and the requirements necessary in order to be successful. Much of the seminar was focused on “hands on” subjects paralegals
Law Society Bookkeeping Guidelines - Feb Webinar with Free CPD Credits **THE PROGRAM THAT WILL BE CONDUCTED HAS BEEN ACCREDITED BY LSUC (LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA) FOR 1 HR PROFESSIONALISM CONTENT, AND WE ARE OFFERING IT FOR FREE. When: Feb24th 2017, for 1hr from 3-4pm, Click here to register Spots are filling up quick for our webinar on Law society
Law Society decides not to ban judges A controversial motion to disqualify most adjudicators as benchers to prevent conflicts of interest at the Law Society of Ontario has been dropped at an annual general meeting earlier this month. A group of paralegals approached the Law Society with a solution to what they perceived was a conflict of
Law Society of New Brunswick approves uLaw CPD courses More options to obtain CPD credits in New Brunswick for practitioners are opening up, courtesy of uLawPractice. Effective 2018, the Law Society of New Brunswick (LSNB) is accrediting its practitioners several hours of CPD credits if they attend one or many of uLawPractice’s legal accounting and bookkeeping webinars, which
Law Society of Ontario urges Maldives to give lawyers their licenses back Beneath the sandy veneer of the Maldives lurks trouble for at least thirty percent of the country’s lawyers who just recently had their licenses unilaterally revoked for vocalizing dissent to encroaching authoritarianism. Sensing grave injustice to barristers inhabiting the Southeast Asian Archipelago, the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) recently
Law Society of Upper Canada to be renamed? After more than two centuries of carrying the name of a former British colony, the Law Society of Upper Canada—Canada’s oldest and largest law society—might be re-named by the end of 2017. Since 2012 critics have been pushing the law society to modernize its currently “archaic” name,
Lawyers have 12 months to prepare for LSUC name change As 2017 winds to a close and the calendar ushers a new year, a number changes are on the horizon for Canada's largest regulator for lawyers. First and perhaps most visible is the Law Society of Upper Canada's movement to rebrand itself as the "Law
Lawyers: accounting lingo shouldn't be feared! Lawyers and paralegals have spent years of their lives learning a highly specialized body of knowledge, a whole different language, used to deal with complicated abstract topics few people outside of the profession could ever even begin to understand. But despite having spent all this time mastering legalese, our team
Lawyers: unlock unrealized & potential revenue There are three things a lawyer ought to know when it comes to getting paid: how much work has been done, whether it’s been billed, and finally whether the bills have been paid. Ultimately getting to the bottom of these three criteria, consistently, often requires the owner of a
Legal accounting 101: Prep for audits and satisfy clients with Settlement Statements Settlement statements are a crucial way to build your brand and satisfy clients while preparing you for scrutiny from regulatory auditors in jurisdictions across Canada. What's a settlement statement, anyway? A settlement statement is a nifty document that breaks down the constituent elements of work your legal firm
Legal Accounting Everywhere. Nearly two decades into the 21st century, uLaw Practice is leading the way for lawyers and paralegals in Canada who want to stay apprised of their firm's financial health in any location they choose. Access up to date analytics. From anywhere, on any device. It doesn't
Legal accounting seminar Nov 21 at Ottawa Courthouse 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 being given an opportunity to learn practical skills during a seminar hosted at the Elgin St. courthouse in Ottawa later this month. On Nov 21
Legal Aid Ontario begins collecting race-based data In a bid to improve its services to low-income individuals and families across the province, the colour of your skin and ethnic origin are now identifying features being captured by Legal Aid Ontario. Since April 1 Legal Aid Ontario (abbreviated to LAO) has started collecting race based data so it
Legal Aid Ontario begins experimental application process for inmates Due to concerns initially raised by concerned lawyers, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is launching a six-month pilot project to help expedite legal aid applications, particularly for inmates who are stuck inside the justice system. Focusing on the Toronto South Detention Centre, (TSDC) Canada’s 2nd-largest prison population, LAO’s new
Legalized Cannabis paves way for new legal specialists, Spot Light: Nathan Lidder The marijuana industry in Canada is growing in more ways than one. And for lawyers, a whole new area of specialization is budding. For this reason, the uLaw team sat down with Nathan Lidder, a Vancouver-based lawyer and founder of Coal Harbour Law. The firm has been around since 2016
Let customers pay online, it's good for business, say banks Lawyers are lagging behind when it comes to adapting to consumer demand in the realm of payment options. Industries across Canada, and indeed the entire planet, have embraced rapid digitalization to the point where in countries such as China, 20 per cent of all sales are being conducted exclusively through
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LOST REVENUE: How lawyers can recover disbursement expense costs (part 1) This blog post is part of a uLawPractice series about disbursements and lost revenue. In this post, we will be focusing exclusively on several methods of cost recovery for lawyers to consider in their billing practices with clients. There’s only so many hours in a day, and perhaps it’
