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LegalSuite offers an Outlook add-in that allows you to view your LegalSuite Matters in Outlook. The add-inn is installed on each user’s PC and creates a new pane in their Outlook listing all the Matters that are in LegalSuite. Users are then are able to drag and...
Procurement and development in uncertain times
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unexpected and emergency procurement of good and services. On a global basis this procurement has stretched public and private sector resources and put procurement under the spotlight. In the African context this has served to highlight procurement fraud and corruption.
Customised Cost Calculators for your website from AJS
A recent development out of the AJS stable offers clients the ability to embed cost calculators directly into their corporate websites to assist prospective buyers and sellers. This product is ideal for law firms with property departments as well as estate agencies. It is a great add...
FeeTrac Mobile Billing takes the daily pain out of tedious time...
Lawyers are often overwhelmed by managing their daily admin and constantly find that they are losing revenue because they are unable to track their time. Lawyers work on the go and time and again, travel, phone calls, emails, attendances, and meetings are not accurately tracked and recorded....
Let practising the law be your core business with LawBox
LawBox, is a powerful management and accounting software created by lawyers, for lawyers. It provides small to mid-sized firms the confidence they need in financial and client management with one-click convenience.
As a cloud-based offering, LawBox does what many management solutions miss, and that is give firms...
Your library’s success hinges on effective resource sharing
The Encyclopaedia of Library and Information Science contains the quote: “the success and survival of big libraries will depend on how much and to what extent libraries co-operate with each other in future”. What this co-operation boils down to is collaborative and effective resource sharing.
Daan’s Snippets – 3rd August 2020
Selling your soul to the devil? Perhaps: it is very difficult for a personal injury lawyer to get up and going and, aside from sourcing a loan from a bank, this lender (no, this is not a recommendation) attracted my attention in the past week: https://tauruscapital.co.za/
Recognising women trailblazers, change makers and innovators in law
As we celebrate Women’s Month in August, there is a need to recognise the successes of women in the legal profession, while working toward closing the gender gap and creating gender parity. The Woza Women in Law Awards, hosted by Women in Leadership and Law and supported...
EWC not the answer for post-COVID-19 South Africa
On 23 July 2020, the Governor of the Reserve Bank (SARB), Lesetja Kganyago, said that the SARB currently expects GDP in 2020 to contract by 7.3%. I consider this to be an optimistic figure, as contraction between 12% - 15% is likely more accurate, especially with the...
Daan’s Snippets – 27th July 2020
The Pietermaritzburg Deeds Office has, yet again, closed, owing to the need for CV19 sanitation. I had said that deeds offices cannot close for three days at a time when a need to sanitise arises. Logically, this is going to happen many times, which will result in...
Leading SA legal firms engage students and graduates on the #FutureofLaw
How are South African law firms responding to Covid-19, has business changed and what the future of law looks like for students and graduates.
Software-as-a-service recruitment platform, Leaply, in partnership with School Advisor and consulting firm Decusatio, will host an inaugural #FutureofLaw digital event...
Shifting the “needle” in the Entrepreneurial Struggle
Nicolene Schoeman-Louw is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, Conveyancer, Notary Public and Mediator; with a passion for entrepreneurs and helping them reach their most ambitious goals. She has enjoyed the confidence of many successful entrepreneurs. As a trusted advisor she has actively...
Daan’s Snippets – 20th July 2020
WDD (Wat de d*nner) is the polite equivalent of W*F: the LPC wants to amend our practice rules so that the requirement of a driver’s licence, for a candidate attorney, will amount to misconduct. The BLA takes this further and calls for such actions to constitute a...
Justice Accelerator turns to startups & technology to find meaningful impact
€10 000 grant for innovations that focus on solving and preventing justice problems
While protesting against injustice has become a daily occurrence in South Africa, Covid-19 has further influenced the fractures in the country, increasing and influencing inequality and economic injustice. This has disempowered...
SCB Attorneys selects AJS
“We are really enjoying the new adventure and setting up all our systems. After we caught up with the backlog from lock-down we implemented ‘live billing’ using AJS’ work-in-progress facility at the beginning of this month,” said Stephan Bester, managing partner.
“Your support people...
Free Webinar: Get help preparing for POPIA
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) commenced on 01 July 2020. With just 12 months in which to set the necessary infrastructure in place, businesses will need to either appoint or upskill dedicated teams to ensure compliance – or face hefty fines.
POPIA...
Daan’s Snippets – 13th July 2020
The SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (not kidding – schoolchildren do not all enjoy basic human rights, yet prisoners should) is not pleased with the progress that has seen only 5,400 of the intended 19,000 prisoners being released under the Covid-Prez-promise…
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At last, POPIA
On 22 June 2020, two important commencement dates were announced for the remaining sections of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA or the Act). Sections 2 to 38; sections 55 to 109; section 111; and section 114(1), (2) and (3) will commence on 01st July 2020....
Google My Business for Law Firms
What is it? GMB is a free online listing in Google’s business directory. It is available for businesses and organizations to manage across Google’s services like Search and Maps. What is important is that Google uses GMB listings in the...
5 Noteworthy Law Firm LinkedIn Pages
LinkedIn has more than 660 million users in over 200 countries, making it the most popular business social networking platform worldwide. LinkedIn is unique in that its audience is educated, affluent, and already in a professional setting....
21 Law Firm Marketing Strategies for 2020
In this article, I’ll show you the latest law firm marketing strategies and techniques you can incorporate into your 2020 marketing plan.
It includes a collection of law firm marketing ideas you can leverage to start...
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