Here are a few helpful tips for setting communication boundaries at any stage of a lawyer-client relationship.

How can legal professionals identify burnout in your lives and among your employees, and how can you combat this seemingly ubiquitous problem?

We spend nearly 4 hours a day using smartphone apps — follow these tech tips to cut down that number and focus on your time off.

Create your own roadmap for effective time off that boosts your mental health and ability to serve your clients — in the long term.

To celebrate our new integration with Securexchange, you can go in the draw to win a $500 Prezzee gift card just by using the Securexchange feature in September!

This month we will be supporting your life as a Healthy Remote Lawyer, covering topics like stress management, setting healthy client boundaries, and asking for the help you need.

Join the 2021 Smokeball Firms of the Future Virtual Summit, as 13 industry experts share the most cutting-edge technology, strategies, and research - so you can remain ahead of the curve

Clarissa Rayward aka 'The Happy Family Lawyer joined us virtually for a wellness webinar to discuss the five key elements lawyers need to successfully manage and build a fulfilling career in law and life outside of it.

We have always been proud of our company culture here at Smokeball, and today we have another reason to be.

Discover some of the common ways lawyers hold themselves back from being their most productive selves, and what you can do about it.

With all the advice and formulas for unbridled productivity available, how can law firms cut through the noise to find a version of productivity that helps them to be more successful law firms?

We recently spoke with prominent Smokeball Community member Amanda Little to discuss how she manages to balance career and family life, her top tips for running a thriving legal practice, and what inspires her to succeed.

Smokeball CRO Jane Oxley and Global Head of Product Adele Hoyle met virtually to showcase legal software innovations that will simplify the legal billing process.

At Smokeball, we are dedicated to helping law firms become more successful businesses. Learn how our software has helped Allen & Searing Criminal Lawyers, increase their productivity, flexibility and profitability.

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the first-ever Smokeball Community Hero Award 2021.

As the legal industry continues to grow and evolve, taking a customer-centrist approach is the logical next step for law firms hoping to maintain and expand their business post-COVID and beyond.

In this article we address the poisonous seed that grows into a catastrophe for most law firms – uncaptured and unpaid time.

Has your client signed up as a volunteer for an organisation that works with children? Or applied for a new role and is going through a recruitment process which includes a police check? There are many scenarios where your client may be required to consent to a police check.

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.