Happy New Year

Happy New Year! The NetLegal team hopes that 2010 is off to a good start for each and every one of you. There are some great new changes to the NetLegal application that I would like to share with all of you.

Improved User Interface – Functionality has been merged and navigation has been streamlined to make it even easier and quicker to use NetLegal.

Secure Serve Document e-Filing – Serve and file your documents online with bank grade security using NetLegal Secure Serve.

Subscription Based Pricing – Convenient to use and easy to keep track of. Contact us for a free 30 day trial of Secure Serve.

These great changes are in addition to the features included on NetLegal:

Free registration for all firm members

• Docket data searches using the Federal Court Docket Monitor
• Firm profile on www.netlegalfirms.com at no charge
• Stay connected anywhere by using NetLegal for BlackBerry

There’s more to come from NetLegal in 2010 and we hope that you’ll be part of it! Stay tuned to the blog for updates or email us to join the mailing list. Please feel free to contact us with your thoughts and ideas by calling us toll free at 1-888-808-3301, by emailing feedback@netlegal.ca or by posting a message here on elegalideas.

Until next time,

Krista

NetLegal Customer Support

Filed under: New Functionality, Process

New Website!

Hello Readers,

NetLegal would like to invite you to check out our new website www.netlegal.ca.

We encourage you to let us know what you think of the new website. Post a comment on here or email us at feedback@netlegal.ca. You can also call us toll free at 1-888-808-3301.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Krista

NetLegal Customer Support

Filed under: Process

NetLegal Dev Labs and You

Here at NetLegal in our development lab, we’re always busy thinking up new ideas and new ways to help you do your business faster, smarter, greener and cheaper.

We have a number of great products in the works and I wanted to share a few of these with you today. Your feedback on these new products will help us to create the tools that you need – not the tools that we think you need.Some of our favourite products are a direct result of your involvement.

We’ve recently launched some new products to our line of Docket services, both in the Federal arena and

Filed under: New Functionality, Process

Hello from NetLegal Customer Support

Hello readers, I thought I would hop on here and introduce myself. My name is Krista and I’m part of the NetLegal team. I work in Customer Support and one of my favorite things is getting feedback from our users.

The worldwide recession is affecting so many people. How can NetLegal help legal professionals weather the storm?

To start with, we offer free registration to everyone. No matter how many members are in your firm, they can all register for free. Everyday. To help send business your way, we offer an online profile on www.netlegalfirms.ca at no charge to every firm that registers for a NetLegal account. You can post

Filed under: Process, Social Networking

Going Green in Your Litigation

Our "Green" ad from 2007

First off, I have to admit to being somewhat remiss in my postings in December – trying to get clear of work before the holidays and then the holidays themselves are a brutal combination for getting things done in that month.  If I still made New Year’s resolutions, I no doubt would have already broken the one to “Be more consistent in updating my blog.”

During a brief lull in the insanity, my 10 year old daughter was asking some questions about what we are doing with NetLegal. In explaining it to her, I mentioned how we can reduce the amount of paper that law firms and courts use. Being a strong advocate for the environment, she suggested that I should put more emphasis on this aspect of what we are doing. While we did do a little marketing in this regard before (see image at top right) she got me thinking that we should revisit it.

Filed under: New Functionality, Process

Social Networks and the Practice of Law

We all know that Facebook and MySpace have changed how we interact with each other. We can view pictures of our friends (or potential employees), see who they know, become their friends, etc. 

The growth of Facebook has been staggering – in the fall of 2007, over 1 million new users signed up on Facebook every week. During that time, Facebook received 40 billion page views per month and it has continued at 100% growth between March 2007 and March 2008 (Neilsen’s March 2008 ratings).

This phenomenon has expanded into the business world, with Neilsen reporting that LinkIn experienced 319% growth with users over 45 now accounting for over 31% of its user base. This trend has moved into the legal sector with sites like LegalOnRamp providing an online community targetted at in house counsel.

NetLegal focusses on the long existing “social” network between firms and courts allowing lawyers to join for free and to build a directory by inviting other lawyers to join. However, instead of sharing pictures of your last Halloween party, NetLegal lets you share documents by electronically serving the other counsel in the case and creating a secure online case repository.

Judges can also be invited to join the case so that lawyers can electronically serve and file the document with the click of a button. Judges can also set up e-filing for free on a case-by-case basis and then invite counsel for the parties to join.

I doubt that there will be much demand on NetLegal to send a gift or a drink to each other but is there any other functionality would you like to see. For example, should we have a “wall” for a case? What about a Wiki on certain legal issues?

Post your comments on these and any other ways law firm users, court users and students can interact.

Filed under: New Functionality, Process, Social Networking, lawyers, legal technology, netlegal, Social Networking