How Do I Choose Legal Case Management Software?

22 March, 2021

Choosing the right legal case management software for your firm is a huge decision. This isn’t just some additional app you’re throwing in the mix to make things a little easier. This is a new central structuring system for your work. Changing your case management system isn’t like...

Best Practices: Permissions

15 March, 2021

Information is unruly. How can you make sure your information goes precisely where it should, and nowhere else? Filevine users have a powerful ally: Filevine Permissions and Roles. This one set of tools can help with a whole host of different problems. This is the first place to look to streng...

Women Who Tech: 6 Lessons Learned from Filevine Leaders

8 March, 2021

March 8th is International Women’s Day. It’s a day to reflect on how far we’ve come—and how far we have yet to go. The latest statistics show that women only hold 25% of all tech jobs. This is actually lower than the percentage held by women in the 1980s. The numbers are eve...

In-House Counsel: Here’s How to Demonstrate Your Worth

1 March, 2021

As an attorney, I’ve always seen a job as in-house counsel as a sweet gig. There’s no need to trawl for new clients or chase overdue invoices. You have only one client and they always pay on-time. And best of all, no more tracking and reporting your work in six-minute segments. The downside to bein...

Tools to Tame Your Unruly Email Inbox

16 February, 2021

‘Manage’ has one of the weirder etymologies. It comes from an Old French word meaning ‘horsemanship.’ The 16th-century French art of manège is a form of complicated horse-dancing, ancestor to modern dressage.With that kind of history, how can we even think of ‘managing’ email? Some days, email feels...

Filevine's Equal Match Donation for the Equal Justice Initiative

12 February, 2021

Dear Partners, Friends, and Customers,Every February and July, nervous law students and aspiring lawyers across the United States sit down at similarly worn desks. In front of them sit stacks of papers that will conclusively decide if the test-takers years of dedicated study and labor were worth it....