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Rocket Matter Case Study

By Steve Senentz
November 02, 2014

Clarie Law Offices, P.A., is a Florida based boutique law firm focusing on wills, trusts, estates and adoptions. Our staff includes the two primary shareholder attorneys, a litigation attorney, a retired Sixth Circuit Court judge serving “Of Counsel,” a contract attorney, an office manager, four paralegals, a legal secretary and myself as office and systems administrator.

For many years, we utilized a simple peer-to-peer Windows-based computer system of locally installed applications running basic word processing, accounting and time billing software. But the setup had several limitations ' non-centralized data, a lack of collaboration tools, no remote access to key client or matter information, limited staff involvement in the capture of billable entries.

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