Use Cases: Discover what Clocktimizer can do for your firm
Embrace the power of data-driven decision making. All law firms sit on a treasure trove of incredibly valuable yet underutilized data. Locked away in your timecard narratives is an infinite source of knowledge and insights. It’s time to tap that source, time to experience truly data-driven decision making!
Clocktimizer
What Is Time-Saving Technology Saving You Time For?
At Litera Microsystems, we talk a lot about using technology to save time. Just recently, we've blogged about how much time modern word processing saves lawyers in drafting documents , how technology saves time in scientific writing , and how technology can help all of us achieve a better work-life balance . But are we really saving time with technology? And, if so, what...
Legal
Technology
Imagination Leads to Innovation
X Prize CEO and private space explorer Anousheh Ansari believes we can build a better life through technology ' if we aren't afraid to fail. When you were a child, did you look up at the sky at night and wonder what was up there and how you could get there? Anousheh Ansari did. From a young age, Ansari would let her imagination run wild. She even drew a picture of the...
Legal
Technology
Transact
How Technology Can Help You Save Time and Improve Accuracy in Scientific and Regulatory Writing
Writing about pharmaceutical and scientific research, whether for publication or for approval by the FDA, is difficult enough already: you have to communicate complex ideas in straightforward, clear, unmistakable language while persuading your readers that your findings are valid and worthy of support. Fortunately, technology is at the ready to help you produce better...
Legal
Product
Clean and Compare
Raise your hand if you've ever compared a document with a ruler and a red pen. Now, raise your hand if you've ever executed a document created on a typewriter. And finally: raise your hand if you remember using CompareRite? I'm certain a few of us who began working in this community can swap stories about the attorney who scribbled notes on the back of a typed page then...
Drafting
Legal
Technology
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Compare
The Importance of Up-to-Date Software
As legal technology breaks new ground, it's more critical than ever that legal professionals get, and keep, their software up to date. Outdated software presents three primary problems: security vulnerabilities, program instability, and poor compatibility with other applications. However the benefits of updating go beyond overcoming these problems, offering access to new...
Legal
Product
Improving the Signature Management Workflow
Managing signatures constitutes the largest amount of administrative time for lawyers and their teams when closing a deal. Traditional workflows for creating signature pages and packets and tracking signature pages is long and tedious, and clients expect their law firms to innovate just as their other vendors do. How big of a difference does the right technology make? We...
Legal
Workflow
Transact
Litera Desktop Has Arrived
For decades we have worked to support the lawyer's workflow. And for the past year, we have focused in on improving that workflow across the document lifecycle, increasing efficiency of the process and improving the overall quality of work product.The result of this effort is Litera Draft , formerly Litera Desktop. Litera Desktop is a single, integrated ribbon within...
Drafting
Legal
Desktop
Legal Professionals
Legal Work
Mind Your Metadata
When did you last consciously think about what you might be revealing in your metadata? If the answer isn't 'the last time I shared a file,' you might be running a considerable risk with your clients' information, your employees' personal data, or even your ethical compliance. What Is Metadata? Metadata is, essentially, data about data. It includes those file descriptors...
Legal
CIO & IT
Firm Governance
Metadact
The Devil Is in the Details: How Legal Writing Benefits From a Comprehensive Document Drafting Lifecycle
Legal document drafting is harder than it looks. Law firms need to produce clear, correct, and consistent documents quickly, easily, and without wasting time or creating unnecessary headaches. Errors can be costly: they can diminish client trust, reduce credibility with opponents and the courts, and tarnish the firm's reputation in the broader community. But avoiding every...
Drafting
Legal
Technology
Introducing Clause Companion
Our position right now Since the start of the year when we announced our new company identity, we've been working on a strong push to re-introduce ourselves to customers, research how the market has been changing, and understand how we can better respond to its needs as a consolidated vendor.Part of the advantage of our new company identity is the new software products we...
Drafting
Legal
Legal Professionals
Legal Work
The True Cost of Document Errors
Errors, even small or seemingly trivial ones, bear a high cost, both in terms of financial losses and reputational damage'and nowhere more so than in legal writing. The Financial Cost of Document Errors Document errors that directly cause financial losses are fairly rare, but when they happen, we're all glad they didn't happen to us. Like the time Macy's sent out a catalog...
Drafting
Legal
Legal Professionals
Legal Work
Metadata in Embedded Images: Risks and Responsibilities
A true story about metadata in embedded images, and unintended consequences:Back in 2012, John McAfee (of McAfee anti-virus fame) was holed up in a Central American jungle, hiding from a variety of government investigations as a 'person of interest' (drugs, guns, money, and murder). On social media, he regularly taunted the Central American government authorities: 'catch...
CIO & IT
Firm Governance
Metadact
Am Law 200 firm Crowell & Moring LLP selects Litera Transact
September 28, 2021 – Litera has announced Crowell & Moring LLP, an Am Law 200 law firm located in Washington, DC, has chosen to implement Litera Transact. The firm selected Litera’s end-to-end transaction management solution to accelerate the signing and closing of deals and enhance collaboration. Abhijat Saraswat, Litera Senior Sales Director, said, “We’re delighted that...
Transact
NLJ 500 law firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP selects Litera Desktop
September 16, 2021 – Litera has announced Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP, a NLJ 500 law firm headquartered in Baltimore, MD, has recently elected to roll out Litera Desktop to their firm. The firm’s lawyers will join the growing number of more than 70,000 users around the world who use the Litera Desktop drafting suite for their daily legal work. Abhijat Saraswat, Litera...
Desktop
What makes a Rainmaker? Five tips to mastering business development in law firms
Business development is a key part of any lawyer’s practice. To keep the practice running, there is always a need for rainmakers to cultivate new business. For some, this process comes easily, and for others, it proves to be more difficult. Business development can get overlooked due to other requirements but keeping your pipeline full is a necessity. Throughout my time...
Legal
Marketing & Business Development
Perfect documents every time — in less time, with less stress
Lawyers can’t afford document errors—but they also can’t afford to spend hours formatting, reviewing, reformatting, and re-reviewing their documents to ensure that they meet that standard of perfection. That’s why Litera prides itself on providing legal professionals with world-class review and repair tools.
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NLJ 500 law firm Barley Snyder selects Metadact
August 9, 2021 – Litera has announced Barley Snyder, a NLJ 500 law firm located in Lancaster, PA, has recently chosen to implement Metadact for comprehensive metadata management. The firm will roll out the solution to its lawyers, allowing them to secure sensitive data and reduce the risk of data loss. Abhijat Saraswat, Litera Senior Sales Director, said, “We’re delighted...
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