LAO awards Lois Cromarty prestigious award

Lois Cromarty, executive director of the Northumberland Community Legal Centre, is the recipient of the Sidney B. Linden Award for 2021. The Sidney B. Linden Award is given by Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) to exceptional individuals who help low‑income Ontarians in the pursuit of access to justice. Lois has

Ontario government announces $65 million fund for remote hearing tech

Remote hearings are not going away anytime soon. The Ontario government has recently announced that it will be spending $65 million over the course of five years to revamp its tech. Acknowledging the advantages to remote hearings, the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General highlighted four key areas that the funding

Belleville Paralegal Peter Rodgers takes home platinum community award

He wanted to shout it from the rooftops, but he knew it’d give extra motivation to his opponents. Peter Rodgers won a platinum award for Community Votes Belleville for 2021 in the category of paralegal services. Rodgers is a sole practitioner who has run his own legal business since

uLaw speech to text: dictate your dockets to uLaw!

We always say that uLawPractice works as your digital legal assistant. And now, as of uLaw's newest 2022 tech update, you can begin to talk to uLaw. Using machine learning algorithms, uLaw developers have recently added a new feature into the system which uses speech to text directly

How to generate BC Small Claims & LaTB forms with uLaw

If you’re looking for a quick way to generate Small Claims court forms or SCC court forms as a legal practitioner in British Columbia, you’ve come to the right spot. uLawPractice’s development team has recently implemented a new feature which now supports these forms. This means that

LawPay integrates with uLawPractice

ONTARIO, CA (October 21, 2021) -- LawPay, the leading online payment solution for legal professionals, has annoucned their new partnership with uLawPractice. This new integration combines uLaw's accounting-focused, cloud-based practice management solution with LawPay's digital payment platform uLaw is Canada's most trusted legal accounting

Managing permissions for bookkeepers and assistants to connect to your bank

This article is the last in a series of uLaw walkthroughs on bank integration. The (2) importation of your banking statements for legal accounting purposes just got a whole lot easier, and you can read (1) how to connect it by clicking here. Even sole practitioners often make use of

Connect your bank to uLaw and automate your statements with this new feature

uLawPractice is getting smarter. Canada’s most trusted cloud-based practice management and legal accounting suite has just gained the ability to automate the bank importation process, once and for all. Earlier this month, uLaw developers released a powerful new feature which allows users to automate the statement importation process. This

Order ASAP cheques directly through uLaw

OTTAWA, ON, Aug 23, 2021 – ASAP Cheques, a leading provider of cheques to financial institutions across Canada, has partnered and integrated its offerings with uLawPractice, Canada’s most trusted legal accounting and practice management software. Through uLawPractice itself, law firms will be able to enhance their digital bookkeeping and accounting

Directly importing bank statements into your accounts or matters

This is the second walkthrough in a series of articles written about an important new bank-linking series announcing a highly important uLaw feature for linking your bank account with uLaw. To read the first one, click here. So you’ve already linked your bank accounts with uLawPractice and you now

Bankruptcy and insolvency expert warns lawyers need to keep up with tech to stay relevant

The legal profession in Ontario needs to immediately make some changes if it is to keep up to speed with rapid technological advancement. This was one of the messages delivered to members of the legal profession by longtime lawyer Franklyn Harris Bennett, who was awarded an honorary degree by the

Durham College to use uLaw EDU in curriculum

Students at Durham College’s paralegal program will begin using uLawPractice’s EDU system to conduct legal accounting and practice management exercises as part of that school’s curriculum. “A modern legal education curriculum involves learning the actual business and compliance activities that a majority of lawyers and paralegals need

uLaw wins 2021 Top Performer Award from SourceForge

Due to its rising popularity as Canada's most trusted practice management and legal accounting software suite, uLawPractice has earned an award from the popular review website, SourceForge.com As of August 3, 2021, uLawPracticeis now the proud recipient of an award for the category of Law Practice Management

George Brown College adopts uLaw's EDU system for paralegal school

Dec. 17 2020—Students at George Brown College’s paralegal school will soon be learning how to automate their practice management and legal accounting with the use of uLawPractice’s EDU system. On Tuesday uLaw partnered with the faculty of Legal Studies at George Brown College to bring uLawPractice free

Paralegal accounting 101: Prep for audits and satisfy clients with Settlement Statements

Today we’re going to talk about settlement statements; how they build your brand and satisfy clients, and also how these advanced documents prepare you for scrutiny from regulatory auditors in jurisdictions across Canada. A settlement statement is a nifty document that breaks down the constituent elements of work your

Paralegal instructor George Thelwell endorses uLaw

Since George Thelwell started teaching ethics and other courses related to paralegal studies at Cestar College, he's been promoting uLawPractice. "It's a great organizing tool. It balances practice management and (the software) also carries on into our ethics procedures seamlessly. It forces everyone who uses

Perfectly Canadian: Enjoy your weekend, eh?

The team at uLaw is wishing everyone in this fine nation a happy and healthy long summer weekend with friends and family. Special thanks to our clients who have helped us actualize our dream to become a "Perfectly Canadian" innovation for legal practitioners across the nation, from Cape

Practice Management and Legal Accounting ON THE GO

Cloud based PRACTICE MANAGEMENT & LEGAL ACCOUNTING for easy access Weekday routines for attorneys invariably include travel. Whether by rail, air or road, lawyers are commuting from home to firm or to meet clients. And of course, sometimes attorneys find themselves leaving the city for business reasons. As a result,

PREPARING FOR AUDITS WHILE INCREASING BILLABLE HOURS

It might be tempting to fall prey to the prevailing myth that it’s profitable to cut corners occasionally when it comes to legal bookkeeping. After all, the Law Society calls it a Bookkeeping Guide, right? So maybe it’s true the numbers don’t have to add up--at least

Provincial Liberals write $7.3 million cheque for Legal Aid Ontario

On the heels of an upcoming provincial election, the Ontario Liberals are shelling out increased funding to the province's legal aid clinics to help low-income families. The Ontario government is committing an additional $7.3 million in spending between 2018-2019 to support the 73 independently operated legal aid

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

Reasons lawyers should let clients pay online

When it comes to adapting to consumer demand in the area of payment options, lawyers seem to be lagging behind. Other industries around the globe such as retail have embraced digitalization to such an extent that even in the developing world (such as China), 1 in 5 retail sales are

Recent law society audit “went really well thanks to uLaw”

A duo of Toronto immigration lawyers are giving uLaw two thumbs up after being  audited. Rafeena Rashid and Jelena Urosevic, partners of Rashid Urosevic LLP, have been using uLawPractice to manage their bookkeeping and legal accounting for the past two years. “(the) Software is easy to use for client contacts,

Save time with court form automation solutions

Litigation requires research and time. Addressing the matter at hand requires essential documents from the parties involved to represent the case in front of the court. Appropriate filing of documents with the court for proceeding with the matter is of utmost importance. Depending on the kind of legal matter being

SCC strikes down law prohibiting automatism thru extreme intoxication

While it might be an exceedingly rare defence to certain sections of the criminal code, the Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that the defence of automatism in cases of extreme intoxication remains valid, and that laws prohibiting the defence are unconstitutional. Charter Subsections 7 and 11(d) were found