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New Features Abound For MyCase

'Tis the season to learn about the latest in legal tech.

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This is the time of year that legal tech companies start unveiling the latest and greatest improvements to their platforms. We’ve seen both Thomson Reuters and Lexis make serious strides in case analytics, ILTACON brought tons of announcements in the space, and even Techcrunch’s Disrupt SF brought some legal tech news. So it’s no surprise that MyCase has a number of new features to crow about too.

Perhaps the biggest feature the platform’s added is full Dropbox integration. The legal industry is finally — finally — coming to grips with the need to embrace the Cloud. Keeping documents in your closet just isn’t going to cut it anymore for either efficiency or security. But for some small firms and solo practitioners, the baby steps into the Cloud environment may well come in the form of Dropbox. The online document repository is easy and inexpensive, and because so many attorneys are drawn to it, MyCase has made integration a snap, allowing any edits made to documents in the desktop or online versions to immediately sync with MyCase.

The newest updates also expand the mobile offerings, allowing users to see staff calendars and share case documents directly from their mobile device. The product also adds some business tools, including a Case Revenue Report to provide users a peek at the financial performance of any given case, a Fee Allocation Report reporting the amounts collected by individual invoice contributors, and tools that allow firms to track business development leads.

But the system also addresses the other kind of “LEDES,” specifically the Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard that clients are increasingly adopting for billing purposes. The new feature recognizes this change and allows law firms to include the LEDES billing codes on invoices.

All of these changes may all seem small by themselves, but for firms trying to keep atop their practice and the “business of running a business,” these changes taken together offer users the evolving user experience they need to stay competitive.

These are exciting times in legal technology.

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HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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