Regardless of the law firm you work with, you are almost guaranteed to be working with Corel WordPerfect Office or Microsoft Office. In my experience, WordPerfect is regarded by most law firms as more compatible with the various legal software programs that are used. Whether this is true or not will reflect your personal experience and history in the legal industry. Regardless, I would strongly encourage any individual not familiar with WordPerfect to make themselves fluent with the program. Fortunate for you and I, training material is readily available for both programs online for free! Check out what tutorials Corel offers for WordPerfect and what tutorials Microsoft Office offers for Word.Legal Technology
Stay up to date with legal technology by visiting websites like LTN - Law Technology News & the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center!
Practice/Case Management Software
Given the expansion of technology to the court houses, your can be sure that every law firm will operate with some sort of case management software. Which software is used will depend greatly on the culture of the firm. Some firms may attempt to operate paperless, which implies some degree of faxing from the desktop, efiling with the court, scanning documents and processing them with some sort of file management systems. Below I have listed a few common programs that might be used:
| Amicus Attorney | Abacus Law | iManage | ProLaw |
| Needles | PracticeMaster | Time Matters |
Rocket Matters: Individual and firm-wide calendaring, to-do and task tracking, matter management, contact management, phone and inter-office messaging, conflict checking, document storage, reporting and performance tracking, date calculation, tagging, mail merge, on-demand data downloads, Skype integration.
Legal Files: Case/contact management, email, document assembly and management, relationship management, conflict checking, calendaring, automatic notification system for tasks and to-do's.
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