Law Firms - and the Cloud
"Practice Management" is a complex business - and I'm not referring to the part where you try to get clients (and their money). There is an equally tricky bit involving not spending too much of your own money - and not losing your hair in the process - just staying in business. You need Microsoft Office of course, because frankly if you're a lawyer, you're using Word. For sure. Email - almost certainly Outlook on the desktop, and quite possibly tied into Exchange somehow. Some kind of remote desktop thingy, because you need to get at all those documents that are on the office share. Oh, the 'office share' of course And all this before we even *begin* to get to the fun stuff like time-tracking, document management, legal research, and the like - you know, all the fun stuff that you actually need to do to be in business? Towards this, there seem to broadly be two different approaches being taken towards SaaS-ifying this business (and lets admi...