One Legal is made up of a team of passionate, extremely knowledgeable individuals who put their specific areas of expertise to good use for our customers. Meet the brilliant people behind the scenes to explore why and how we do what we do. Josh Hanft, One Legal’s Director of IT, […]
Read MoreWe’ve all done it: skimmed or skipped over the terms of service to agree with whatever the company has written to get to what we want that much more quickly. By this time, we’ve grown confident that there’s probably nothing in that fine print that would be either interesting enough […]
Read MoreAccording to the 2016 State of Marketing Research Report published by Salesforce Research, 80 percent of marketers consider email to be a core component to the success of their business. Nearly half said the use of email is directly connected to their main source of income. Now that you’ve set […]
Read MoreYour law firm has a comprehensive website with its own domain name and a solid online presence. But if you’re still relying on third-party email services instead of starting a professional email account, you aren’t making the most of your brand presentation. While email accounts provided by your Internet service […]
Read MoreIn the legal industry, and just about everywhere else, the Portable Document Format (PDF) is the gold standard of file formats, used globally to carry the permanence of a paper document into the digital space. Developed in 1992 by Adobe, the goal was to make the PDF a secure digital […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to submitting documents to court, there have always been specific requirements and standards that must be adhered to. Now that eFiling is becoming the preferred way to submit filings in many counties—and will eventually become the only way to file in most—there’s a host of new details […]
Read MoreeFiling and eService are rapidly replacing the old way of doing things in local courts across the U.S. In Texas, for instance, almost every one of the state’s 260 local courts will soon require electronic filing (and therefore also eService) and in California, more and more courts are moving online […]
Read MoreEncryption is one of those topics that sounds so fiendishly complex that most legal professionals don’t want to touch it with a ten-foot pole. The thing is, it only sounds complicated. In fact, enabling encryption is quick and simple. So simple, in fact, that some legal tech writers think it’s […]
Read MoreHow many times have you clicked send on an email only to realize a few seconds later that you’ve accidently emailed the wrong person, sent a snarky comment to an entire list of people, or left an embarrassing typo in the first line? I don’t mind confessing to a couple […]
Read MoreThe advent of electronic court filing means that knowing your way around PDF editing software, like Adobe Acrobat, is no longer an optional skill. That’s because all states that introduce eFiling have ruled that only PDF documents will be accepted. The good news is creating PDFs is simple — you can save directly […]
Read MoreHabits of a lifetime are hard to break. One such habit in the legal profession has been to paginate certain prefatory sections of court filings using Roman numerals. It’s what we’ve always done. Well, as with so many other long-term law office habits, the introduction of electronic court filing means that this […]
Read MoreReceiving notification that your court filing has been rejected by the clerks can be seriously frustrating. In terms of time, cost, and risk to your professional reputation we’re sure it’s an annoyance you could do without. It happens, though. And, as the courts in more and more states move to […]
Read MoreThere’s a lot of information out there about how to protect yourself against cybercrime. It’s of varying degrees of quality, however. Much of it is also only of partial relevance to the legal profession. In other words, getting to the information you need can be tough. That’s why we’ve written […]
Read MoreIt’s generally accepted that good legal writing is concise writing. It’s not always easy, though. It’s especially difficult in the legal field, where simplicity can get lost in an ocean of impenetrable jargon, superfluous triplicate phrases, and never-ending sentences. The result is often writing that’s hard work to read or […]
Read MoreLaw firms are big targets for cyber criminals. The sheer volume of sensitive and confidential data held on law firm computers and servers makes them an enticing target for budding cybercriminals. The consequences of a serious data breach extend far beyond just embarrassment — lose a client’s data to cybercrime […]
Read MoreAs we begin the new year’s first full week of work, it’s the perfect time to look ahead and review what’s in store for 2017. Okay, so it’s well known that technological advancement in the legal professions can sometimes be slow. Therefore, many of these trends have been in the […]
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