April 3-6 is coming up fast and you still haven't registered?! Andrea with the LegalTypist has you covered. Just go here for step by step instructions on how to get a discounted rate, as she's been putting together Super Pass groups for years now.

Also, don't forget to register for the Clio, NetDocuments, LegalTypist sponsored meetup, Wednesday night at the South Loop Club.

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Washington, D.C. Law Firm Upgrades from Consumer-focused Solution to a Full Enterprise Content Management Service

NetDocuments today announced Fluet Huber + Hoang (FH+H), a fast-growing law firm in the Washington, D.C. region, has chosen NetDocuments' cloud-based enterprise solution as its document management system (DMS). NetDocuments provides the firm with more advanced document security, searching, and collaboration features for its high-level global client base.

Legal Support Network is based in the UK and one of the many associations we're involved with. They recently published a Q&A Industry Voice session with NetDocuments' marketing manager about what law firms will be doing in the future, what they could learn from other sectors, and how they could become much more efficient and profitable.

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What's the biggest or most important thing that law firms will be doing in five years' time that they're not doing now?

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) isn't just plaguing 7^th graders on their first day of school. The FUD about moving critical applications to the cloud has been gripping the minds of business professionals, paralyzing with the "what ifs" "buts" and the "did-you-hears" … but for many, that was years ago. If you're still one of the individuals who believe a server locked in a back room of your office is safer, more efficient, or less costly than the cloud, you could consider this a wakeup call.

Organizations with 20 to 2,000 Users Can Upgrade From On-Premise Legacy DMS Software to NetDocuments at No Cost until June 30, 2013

LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NetDocuments, a leading cloud-computing content management and collaboration service, today announced a free "Upgrade to the Cloud" promotional offer for organizations of 20 to 2,000 users currently using iManage, Worldox or OpenText for enterprise document management.

An ever increasing number of users are benefiting from the anywhere access to their documents using NetDocuments' iPad or iPhone app, available for free on the Apple App Store for all NetDocuments customers. Here are some tips and ideas that will enhance your experience when using your iPad.

Saving email attachments to NetDocuments

When you receive an email, the attachment is at the bottom of the email message. When you click on the attachment, you can view it using the iPad HTML viewer built into the iPad. It supports most popular file formats, and after you open the document, you will see at the top right an "Open In" button (arrow coming out of a square). When selected, this button will show all apps on your device that accepts the document file type you've opened, e.g. PDF or DOCX. Assuming you've already installed the ND app, you will see the NetDocuments app as "Open in NetDocuments", which also means saving to NetDocuments. What a great way to save attachments while you're on the go!

The technology infrastructure of midsize and large firms has seen dramatic shifts in recent years. The consumerization of IT, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, and of course the cloud, has revolutionized the way firms practice law and implement technology. The benefit of this shift is that it enables firms like yours to simply do more with less — more productivity, more mobility, more security, more functionality — plus disaster recovery. All of this costs less, requires less hardware, and involves a lot less hassle.

NetDocuments services some of the world's leading law firms, financial institutions and corporations across the globe. We also have a lot of great channel partners, technology partners, consultants, and friends who add value to the technology space. We're going to take a break for this post and turn the stage over to an expert in the financial services industry. Sheryl Rowling CPA/PFS, is also part of the Virtual Solutions for Advisors (VSFA) group, where financial advisors can go for advice and resources on how to make their financial services practice more efficient and profitable.

Whether it's Gartner, IDC, GigaOm Research, or The Legal IT Professionals Survey, you can be certain that the question is no longer "is the cloud here to stay?" but has become, "where and for what applications should we implement the cloud first?"

Witnessing the 60,000+ attendees at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce event (where everything is cloud-based) highlighted the contrasting sentiment about cloud adoption that has historically existed between industries. The legal and financial services markets have typically been slower to adopt new technology, due to regulation and highly confidential data, amongst a number of other factors. However, according to recent reports, the winds are shifting and firms in these air-tight industries are learning about the extreme benefits the cloud brings in terms of security, flexibility, business continuity, and mobility – it's these benefits in efficiency and cost savings that are causing a tipping point for legal cloud adoption.

We talk to a lot of financial services firms every day, and one thing that consistently comes up is the pain and difficulty navigating, balancing, connecting, and integrating the technology dots for at an advisor's practice. The must-haves vs. the nice-to-haves often discourages advisors, since most are not technologists and their local IT company they're using to service their computers doesn't really understand the financial services space.