Best Practices If an Associate Leaves Your Firm

2 July, 2020

Law is a demanding profession, especially for the young. It’s so demanding that these newbies switch jobs with alarming frequency. According to a 2017 report from the National Association for Law Placement, 44% of associates left their firms within 3 years. Reasons for leaving included excessi...

Top 10 Ways to Capitalize on Virtual Legal Conferences

26 June, 2020

The Filevine Catalyst Summit is coming August 18th. Here’s how to make it—and other virtual events—a launchpad for your future. Psychologists have found that our reactions to emergencies go far beyond the “fight or flight” response. When we’re under stress, we also have an increased desire to conne...

Reducing Bottlenecks in Remote Work

12 June, 2020

Working remotely is nothing new; it’s actually how carpenters, blacksmiths, potters, and other skilled workers earned their living throughout most of our history—their workspaces were at home. The concept of a “designated workspace” came about during the industrial revolution with the construction o...

The Painless Move to Paperless

5 June, 2020

Law offices have been moving toward digital documents for years now. But the COVID-19 pandemic might have struck the final death knell for paper-bound legal work. At a time when even jury trials are being held over Zoom, lawyers need fast, nimble ways to manage their digital documents. These tools m...

How to Create a ‘Return to Office Plan’ for Law Firms

15 May, 2020

COVID-19 shut down law offices around the world nearly overnight. Nobody expects the return to normalcy to happen that quickly. In many places, it’s still unclear when law offices will be allowed to reopen. Under a patchwork of shifting federal, state, county, and municipal restrictions, it’s diffic...

7 Secrets for Ultimate Lawyer Mobility

8 May, 2020

Did you know Filevine could do this? Distilleries figured out how to produce hand sanitizer. Glass-makers started churning out ventilator parts. Hotels repurposed themselves into temporary hospitals. The COVID-19 crisis revealed our tremendous potential for ingenuity, as we found new uses for the ev...