Specialized, High-End, and Alternative Collaboration Platforms

• Author: Dennis Kennedy - Tom Mighell
• Pages: 191-195

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Specialized, High-End, and

Alternative Collaboration

Platforms

In addition to the general collaboration platforms we have

covered in this part, lawyers may choose among a wide vari-

ety of specialty collaboration platforms that focus on specific

tasks or areas of practice. Electronic discovery has continued

to see steady development of collaboration platforms. In this

chapter, we take a quick tour of some alternative collaboration

platforms lawyers can use to work with others. You will note

that many of these collaboration tools either have started as

cloud applications or have migrated from the desktop to the

cloud in the past few years. Keep in mind that many of these

platforms can also be accessed by smartphones by means of

mobile apps.

Practice Management Programs

Many lawyers and law firms use or have used practice man-

agement programs like TimeMatters, PracticeMaster, Amicus

Attorney, and others. These programs help you administer a

law practice, and they provide a wide range of tools that let

you manage files, delegate tasks, coordinate projects, direct

workflow, create client portals, and take care of other collabo-

ration tasks. Cloud practice management services like Clio and

Rocket Matter have captured a large portion of the practice

management market in the last few years and a good number

of legal tech startups are in the cloud practice management

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