Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Thursday, July 26, 2018 Target, Twitter, Time-hop (the list goes on and on) have had data breaches exposing multi-millions of user’s personal and financial information to bad actors. However, this personal data is just one part of the puzzle if your accounts are protected by additional layers of security. Two-Factor Authentication could protect…
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TheSoftwareConsultant | Thursday, September 13, 2018 Feature specially written for blog.thesoftwareconsultant.com Feature by: Jean Brandrick Last July, personal security website ASecureLife ranked Nevada as the riskiest state for security theft and it’s not hard to see why. Nevada is known for gambling and spending extreme amounts of money – two very attractive activities for identity thieves and hackers.…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | July 16, 2018 So many cloud-based case & matter management systems have a common “Weakest Feature”, the document automation process. Being cloud-based, the edit-upload-download-edit-upload process for reviewing and editing documents is just plain clumsy in many hosted solutions. AlphaDrive for Clio changes that! With AlphaDrive added to your Clio solution,…
Seven Characteristics of a Successful Backup Strategy Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Friday, May 11, 2018 In the late nineties I met a gentleman at a conference who was passing out copies of “The Tao of Backup”* and sharing that “to be enlightened, one must master the seven heads of Backup.” In the handout, and the subsequently published…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Saturday, April 14, 2018 Upgrading a practice management system is a big decision for any law firm. When your existing solutions have often been adapted to over many years to fit working practices to the software workflow, staff feel comfortable using them, and there is often the fear that change will disrupt day…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Is your client trust account compliant? Do you have the required documentation in place and readily available? If the proposed rule change (Proposed Amendments to Supreme Court Rule 78.5 | ADKT 0533) is approved and Supreme Court Rule 78.5 is amended and implemented, will you be able to provide…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Monday, March 19, 2018 Does your firm BYOD? Bring your own device (BYOD) refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices into the workplace, and to allow them to connect those devices to company assets, information, and/or applications. Mobile devices and your firm’s data: Whether you…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Friday, March 9, 2018 The old adage is true, ‘time is money’. Save time and increase revenue with these time & billing best practices Record your time, record your time, record your time! Your work day is most likely jam packed, but recording billable time during or immediately following a…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Monday, March 5, 2018 A recent survey of law firms in the U.S. found that over 70% of those firms do not use their billing or management software to identify trends, key clients, slow paying clients, or timekeeper contribution and profitability. The following reports are available in most billing programs available to the…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Bring your own device (BYOD) policies are becoming a more frequent topic of discussion when reviewing current IT & Documentation needs with our clients. Staff are bringing their devices to the workplace more and more frequently, and connecting (When possible) to your environments. Why not work with that…