For example, it powers Thomson Reuters' new Time and Billing product. Perhaps because of its late entry into the marketplace, eBillity has teamed up with larger companies. Also, the pricing for Bill4Time and eBillity is identical. As a result, the two products share a number of features, chief among them an iPhone app as well as desktop widgets for Mac and Windows. One of its co-founders used to work at Bill4Time, a cloud legal billing software pioneer. Version 2.0 also offers integrations with Autonomy Worksite and Microsoft SharePoint, two popular document management systems used by midsize and large law firms.ĮBillity has interesting origins. You probably found Workshare PDF Professional's support for PDF/A and its file size shrinking technology of interest given that many courts require this format and have file size limits. That's because while PDF software is a hot topic, PDF software designed specifically for lawyers is an even hotter topic. ![]() Acrobat XI Pro also made the list this year but it's further down. And here is version 2.0 ranked sixth in this year's TL NewsWire Top 25. Workshare PDF Professional 1.0 ranked second in last year's TL NewsWire Top 20. Also, it can scan without any cables to a Micro USB card. It functions as both a sheet-fed scanner and as a wand scanner. In fact, many law firms find that they need several types of scanners - high-volume, network, desktop, and mobile.Īmbir's new scanner garnered so much attention from TL NewsWire subscribers because it's the Batman of scanners - highly mobile with a dual personality. In many law firms, scanners have become as essential a peripheral as printers. It would shock me if a scanner didn't make the TL NewsWire Top 25. Because of the intense interest in TheFormTool PRO, we reviewed it twice from two perspectives in our BigLaw and SmallLaw newsletters. TheFormTool PRO adds document assembly functionality to Microsoft Word without the need for programming skills. We filled out the contact form requesting a screenshot to no avail (our thanks to LawSites for letting us use one of its screenshots).Īccording to the CEO of TheFormTool, the TechnoLawyer Network, including TL NewsWire, enabled the company to grow much faster than it originally anticipated. This company reminds me of the Pink Floyd song, Is There Anybody Out There? We could not find an email address. When we reported on CitePin, we called it the "Evernote of the Legal Industry" as it's a cloud application designed to keep track of legal information such as legal research in a freeform manner but with legal-specific features.ĬitePin clearly excited many of you. Instead, like Amazon's strategy of selling its Kindle tablets at or below cost and later earning a profit on ebooks and other content, Total Attorneys essentially gives away its practice management system with the hope that you'll purchase apps such as credit card processing. But Total Attorneys also announced an incredibly low price of just $1 per user per month, which explains its second place ranking. This alone would have likely earned it a spot on the TL NewsWire Top 25. So congratulations to Total Attorneys not only for the add-ons it announced, but also for how the company framed this announcement.īefore launching its app store, Total Attorneys relaunched its cloud practice management system. Thanks to Apple, everyone knows what that means! Using this colloquial term vaulted Total Attorneys App Store to the top of the TL NewsWire Top 25. ![]() Instead, Total Attorneys announced an app store. To its credit, Total Attorneys chose not to use this term given that most lawyers are not programmers and therefore don't know what it means. Several companies announced "application programming interfaces" or APIs this year, which enable other products to more easily integrate with theirs. THE 10 HOTTEST TL NEWSWIRE PRODUCTS OF 2012Ĭongratulations to the 10 hottest products in the TL NewsWire Top 25!Īfter raising a significant round of capital, Total Attorneys came out swinging this year with two cleverly framed blockbuster announcements. We anonymously track everyone's clicks on these links to help us figure out which types of products most interest TL NewsWire subscribers, and also to create the annual TL NewsWire Top 25 Products. Each TL NewsWire article about a new product contains a link to that product's web page. How do we determine the winners? We don't. You'll find commentary on the Top 10 products, a list of the next 15 products, and links for all 25 products. In what has become an annual tradition, today in this year's last issue of TL NewsWire we present to you the TL NewsWire Top 25 Products of 2012. In 2012, we reported on 205 new products in TL NewsWire. Instead of reading TL NewsWire here, sign up now to receive future issues via email. Originally published in the Decemissue of TL NewsWire.
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