By DOTTIE PARIS, Features Editor Johnson Controls has selected Datacert Inc.’s Passport product to streamline its legal technology systems. Datacert’s feature product, Passport, consolidates and integrates legal applications. Johnson Controls will use Passport to streamline its three global business units. Houston-based Datacert is considered one of the early pioneers of legal technology, offering e-billing software for legal departments since 1998. Its first cusomers included Chase Manhattan, Honda and UPS. Through corporate acquisitions and as a result of customer demand, Datacert has moved beyond merely the billing platform, and now offers additional applications, including enterprise legal and spend management software. It also offers client services in intellectual property and legal operations. The Passport product provides greater management of cases … [Read more...]
iwannasuesomebody.com: A Good Ad Venue
By DONNA BALANCIA -- Advertising for lawyers is undergoing a 21st Century facelift, as Web sites like www.whocanisue.com and www.iwannasuesomebody.com and are causing a stir. The migration to Web-based advertising is a natural progression and as the economy remains flat, many attorneys are looking for new ways to get clients. Whocanisue.com founder Curtis Wolf said his ad-based system helps educate the consumer. We think it will educate the consumer about their rights and help them make a decision on what they want to do with their case, Wolf told Fox TV news. While some attorneys profess to be receiving triple the amount of phone calls since these types of Web sites have come into existence, others think they portray Florida's legal community as ambulance chasers. "I'm getting probably twice as many phone calls," said Martin Saenz, a Miami labor and employment lawyer who … [Read more...]
Bill4time a Product That Gives Lawyers Time
By DONNA BALANCIA -- A new product, Bill4time, could help make life as an attorney a little more convenient. Bill4time is a billing software thats Internet based and is accessible from any computer, mobile phone or personal communication device from around the world. Bill4time was created in house when Robert Rimberg in Wall Street firm Goldberg, Rimberg Friedlander collaborated with Morris Tabish of Tabish Consulting on the billing platform. Soon the company hired extra developers, support techs and the company got rolling. Douglas Dweck product manager said when attorneys from the firm started telling other lawyers and it grew to every service, from masseuses to private investigators. Dweck said the product has developed new features and it can be used from the Mac or PC, because its Internet based. "We say that you can use it from anywhere there's an Internet … [Read more...]
Develop a Strategy That Brings Clients To You
CENTRAL FLORIDA -- It happened again. Just last week I received a semi-panicked phone call from a bright, hardworking attorney who had just finished up a highly profitable matter. As he spent the first several minutes of the phone conversation describing the success of this recently completed engagement, I kept thinking that it seemed as though he was trying to justify something. Then it happened. About nine minutes into the conversation, he said: And now that Ive wrapped up this case, I have nothing on the horizon. (Long pause.) Nothing, Dave. At this point, if I were a therapist, a member of the clergy, or even a psychic, I could have said something comforting. Thats what this guy was looking for. He wanted someone to tell him that it would be all right. He was like a fisherman in a sailboat looking at a sky full of heavy, black storm clouds. He wanted to believe that the … [Read more...]
