Tag Archives: legal files

Legal Case Management, Legal Practice Management Software

GotaCase launches CasesTracker Promotion

AUTHOR: Angela Samuels |

GotaCase,  a leading web-based legal practice management software, announced a new promotion that will waived all fees until 2016 for their new software CasesTracker. CasesTracker is a vital tool for lawyers — the central nervous system for the solo practitioner or the small law practice.

CasesTrackerCasesTracker ensures that a case is carefully and automatically monitored throughout its lifetime cycle.

Whether the lawyer services the case themselves, or refers the case to a colleague for servicing, the lawyer never loses sight of the progress of the case. When the case reaches final resolution, the lawyer has a quick and easy reference into how the case has been managed and – importantly – what legal and referral fees are due.

CasesTracker is a tool a lawyer or paralegal uses to:

  • Build a network of colleagues and technical experts
  • Record cases from the lawyer’s inventory of cases
  • Refer cases to lawyers in their personal professional network
  • Monitor the case’s status and keep the client informed about the case’s progress
  • Manage the case, adding notes, documents, photos, forms and other artifacts as needed
  • Schedule milestones, events and tasks, and monitor upcoming events
  • Conduct and record discussions among the team working the case
  • Export the case description, notes and discussions for an electronic record of the case, for sharing or for safe backup

You should realize that there is software out there to help you do virtually anything, even organize your legal files! Try CasesTracker from GotaCase, all fees are waived for 2015. Use discount code ‘SHAKE2015’ http://www.gotacase.com/

Law Firm, Productivity

How to organize your legal files

AUTHOR: Angela Samuels |

Many lawyers say that organizing legal files is hard. The truth is that the more you educate yourself the less difficult it becomes to understand what knowledge you need to apply to grow as an individual. This article will go over tips that you can usproductivity e for your law firm.

Research and learn from others. When you are working towards a goal in your life, seek out others who are either working towards or have already achieved your goal. Not only will they be able to provide support and answer questions, they can be used as examples illustrating exactly what you should or should not do to succeed.

For an example, organization, take at least one step daily toward having all your legal files organized in an online system. This step can be small, or large, but it is necessary to take a step each day. Doing this keeps you on track, and helps you to remain focused. It also gets the necessary steps accomplished so that your end result comes closer and closer.

Break down large goals into manageable steps. Many times our goals are lofty, which is a good thing. However large goals can seem unattainable (for an example, getting all your legal paperwork online), causing you to become daunted and lose motivation.

Before you start any large project or goal, break it down into smaller steps. Get as detailed as you can. Soon you will be well on your way to success. As you recall from the beginning of the article the key to true personal development is to expand your knowledge and to apply that knowledge properly. With all of the information you learned from the article you can truly grow and develop, but the only way this can happen is if you apply the information to the best of your ability. The staff at  GotaCase can help you with transferring your legal files to a system that will be easier to manage.