Being asked to perform a police check can be a little unsettling. We’ve summarised the top 6 questions your law firm clients may ask.

To acknowledge the important work that small law firms do in their communities, we will be presenting the first ever legal community award in 2021. The prize is a luxury trip valued at up to $5,000.

Smokeball is busy right now with a lot of communication around best practices for working remotely, and importantly, engaging staff remotely. Because how much can you really get done if your staff aren’t engaged, right?

Law firms are telling us that they have more emails than ever. Not only do they have their normal, overwhelming number of emails from clients, other lawyers and so on, now they also have most of their internal conversations through email too.

Computers are important members of your support staff in your law firm. To be operating at the top of your game, and to be ethically compliant, your computer must be reliably up to date.

We’re enabling law firms to oversee a whole new area of their practice. Our Lead Management feature gives law firms the tools they need to manage and follow up with potential new clients before a matter is even created.

We are excited to announce that Smokeball now integrates seamlessly with Court Sync. Once documents, orders and judgements are submitted, clients can click the ‘Court Sync’ button within Smokeball and any updated documents will be automatically saved to the corresponding matter.

When we launched our suite of communication and collaboration tools in Smokeball, we worried we were too far ahead of the curve: that small law firms would fail to embrace messaging each other internally, sharing documents with each other, and also messaging their clients and third parties from our software.

Are you wondering: “Should I turn off my computer every day?”. Many people leave their computers on for days or even weeks at a time, but is that really a smart choice? There are many benefits to shutting down your computer every day, let’s take a look at a few.