You’ll never forget that first encounter. Turns out, coupling with a system within the Cloud has a lot of similarities to dating.

If we were to characterize 2020 in a single phrase, we’d call it the “Year of NO.”

With COVID office lockdowns not looking like they will end anytime soon, today, law firms of any size, are likely experiencing rising frustration either with restricted access to case files and documents – paper or digital – and/or not easily being able to find them when they do get access. For smaller or family practice law firms, this could have a crushing impact.

Social distancing and lockdown edicts as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic have hit the legal community hard. Particularly those firms that were not structured to support a remote workforce. To help firms address these challenges, key legal technology vendors have stepped up to offer both price discounts and deferred billing options to help firms get back to work.

NetDocuments (or “NetDocs”) is a robust cloud-based document management system used by law firms, legal departments, and others for more than 20-years. Today, NetDocs is securely managing more than 10-Billion files for those whose lifeblood is the documents they create.

Data security is challenging even for the largest firms with seven-figure IT budgets. For smaller firms, many of which do not have IT departments, let alone network and data security experts on hand, developing and maintaining appropriate security policies and procedures are that much more difficult. But no less important.

With a particular expertise in law firm technology consulting, including deep knowledge in legal software applications, 35*45 is the go-to consultancy for leading law firms and legal departments around the globe.

3545 Consulting^® announced the expansion of their equity partner team. Now to include two employees who have delivered exceptional results for clients, time and time again. Welcoming Elizabeth Nguyen-To, Partner – Applications and Randall Williams, Partner – Engineering.

Several businesses are asking questions about moving to The Cloud vs. using their Local Server for Software Applications. Are you wondering which path you should take? Legal technology expert Nancy Griffing shared some of her insights to help you make your decision.

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with 3545’s newest member of our management team as of January 1st, 2018, Robert Rice. Robert, husband and father of two based in Dallas, Texas, is well-known professionally for his consulting and programming skills. At 3545, where he has been a team member since the inception of the company, he’s respected as a technology expert and well-liked because he is just a really nice guy. The following is an excerpt of our conversation where Robert discusses some big questions surrounding his role as a technologist and how he fell into that role in the first place.