The team at uLawPractice would like to take a moment to say HAPPY CANADA DAY to all our clients, friends, families and fellow Canadians who are all part of this great nation. With such strange weather all year we are happy to see Canada Day, July 1, with such fantastic

Legal firms in Ontario (and other jurisdictions as well) can expect to get audited once every few years despite submitting annual self-reported data pertaining to financial management and practice management of their firms. When a spot audit is initiated, it usually merely begins as routine scrutiny of a firm'

From pursuing offenders for 13 years as an OPP officer to working for the Crown for two decades, Carol Mitchell’s career shows us that paralegals come from all walks of life, including the other side of the courtroom. As part of its Spot Light series, the uLaw team sat

OTTAWA--Discount and write-off insights have been successfully implemented and recently introduced to uLawPractice's cloud-based practice management and legal accounting system for Canadian practitioners. With the use of this new tool, users will be able to generate a report which gives useful intelligence to a lawyer regarding the total

May 29, 2019--OTTAWA--After rigorous development and testing, uLawPractice’s financial management coding team has successfully implemented two new enhanced features for users: support for American Express, and also uLaw’s added ability to handle multiple trust accounts. American Express Support Depending on their client-base and personal preferences, uLaw users are

As part of its ongoing Spot Light series probing how lawyers first got involved in the Canadian legal landscape, uLaw recently spoke with Ilene Solomon, a Toronto-based lawyer specializing exclusively in US-Canada immigration law. Solomon has been a lawyer for seven years and in 2018 she opened her own legal

First thing in the morning, uLaw is open on my desktop. It’s my primary application of use. Why? It’s the ultimate at-your-fingertips legal management tool, keeping me ever-vigilant on my client and matter account management and legal accounting. This application strengthens my ability to be proactive and never

Marketing your new law firm in 2019 The ever increasing presence of social media is beginning to shift how consumers hear about products and services that can help their lives. Successful entrepreneurs and paralegals are jumping on these trends and stomping on their competitors. Take a look at how to

Jan. 29, 2019—OTTAWA—Developers at uLawPractice implemented new changes to the manner in which rates are handled by multi-user law firms operating uLaw’s cloud-based practice management and legal accounting suite. Inside profile setting, under “taxes/rates”, users may now manually enter different rates for administrators, lawyers, law students

Not all forms of software were created equally, and for about a decade it has become increasingly clear that computer usage in general is moving almost exclusively into the realm of the Internet. Take Skype for example. Microsoft is pushing the popular video/voice chat service into the cloud , and

Ontario Regulators are now considering whether to alter the restrictions placed on real estate lawyers who obtain kickbacks and other perks from title insurers. According to audit data obtained in 2016 and 2017, 1 in 3 real estate law firms which deal with title insurers are not disclosing the financial

This is a summarized post of THIS WEEK'S WEBINAR (Nov. 23, 2018). Subscribe here and listen/watch our uLaw webinar for the week SIGNUP FOR THE WEBINAR NOW For a long time, the only legal businesses capable of obtaining actionable insights into their firm's dealings were

In order for a lawyer to function properly in Canadian society, it almost goes without saying that practitioners are meant to tenaciously pursue the interests of their clients while serving the court. Ideally nobody else should stand in the way of attorney-client privilege. Everybody knows it’s integral to the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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