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...
Metadact
Vela Wood P.C. selects Litera Transact
July 16, 2021 – Litera has announced Vela Wood P.C., a top US law firm located in Dallas, TX, 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. Chris Kragthorpe, Litera Regional Director of Sales, said, “We’re delighted that Vela Wood P.C...
Transact
Improve the document journey: Publish or file sooner with time-saving PDF software
This post is taken from the eBook: Discover how to produce high-quality work at every stage of the document journey . Download your copy to learn more about collating files, sharing secure PDFs, and optimizing output for eFiling, archiving, and more. When you use PDF software designed for law firms, you reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks - like redacting, applying...
Drafting
Legal Professionals
Legal Work
pdfDocs
The Keys to Business Performance Outcomes
Your firm’s people are its greatest assets. Revenue, profit, client acquisition, and retention all hinge on how well staff members execute their duties. Given this fact, every firm should optimize its performance outcomes, including individual employees’ performance. Business performance for law firms is most effectively measured by taking a multi-faceted approach that...
Artificial Intelligence
Top Performance
How Compression Software Helps You Save on Cloud Storage Costs
Moving to cloud storage is a popular choice for organizations looking to strengthen security and support an agile or remote workforce. With cloud storage, security updates are applied automatically, protecting your data from new and changing threats. And cloud storage enables real-time monitoring of issues and status outages, so problems can be quickly detected and...
CIO & IT
contentCrawler
Litera Signs Agreement to Acquire Clocktimizer
Leading firm intelligence platform and data-driven matter management, pricing, and budget platform come together to supercharge usable and actionable data available to customers. Chicago, IL - April 13, 2021 - Litera, a global leader in legal technology solutions, today announced it entered into an agreement to acquire Clocktimizer, a leading budgeting and pricing platform...
Artificial Intelligence
Clocktimizer
Litera Acquires DocsCorp to Expand Solutions Available to Customers
Two complementary document drafting and productivity tools come together to provide their clients with a comprehensive technology set throughout the document drafting lifecycle. Chicago, IL - March 31, 2021 - Litera today announced the acquisition of DocsCorp, a global document productivity software provider, expanding choices law firms and legal teams of all sizes will...
Legal
Seven Pillars of Collaboration
Collaboration is an essential ingredient for firms seeking to deliver their strategic goals. Studies prove that firms who collaborate better perform better. Putting teamwork at the heart of your plans help people engage with, and learn from, those who can contribute most towards their objectives and success. Having effective collaboration in your firm will deliver...
Legal
Technology
The Best Way to Combine PDF Files into a Court Book
If you’re a lawyer or legal secretary, chances are you already know the requirements of a Court Book since it is so crucial to the job. If your memory needs a refresher, or if you’ve just taken on the responsibility of preparing them, a Court Book is defined by the Federal Court of Australia as “an indexed collection of Documents to be relied upon at the hearing of a...
Legal
How to Create a PDF Binder with pdfDocs
Getting Started 1. Create a Binder Project 2. Add folders and sub-folders 3. Import folders, sub-folders, and documents from iManage 4. Import folders, sub-folders, and documents from Windows File Explorer 5. Choose files to convert to PDF 6. Rename documents 7. Organize documents within the Binder Project 8. Create, view, and edit the Cover Page 9. Preview document...
Drafting
pdfDocs
Automatically Reduce PDF File Sizes Within Your Document Management System
File storage can be expensive, especially if you are using high-availability storage devices or paying by data volume to store files in the cloud. A significant contributor to the cost of file storage is bloated PDFs. Often, they are larger than they need to be because the image content is unnecessarily large, or they were scanned into a file system at a higher resolution...
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Technology
pdfDocs