For the past three years, the team at Smokeball has been working on AutoTime. AutoTime is a total revelation for small law firms whether working on time billed or fixed fee (or as is common, a combination of both) as it performs two key functions.

​​This an original  interview conducted by Legal Practice Intelligence Editor Peter Frankl.
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Smokeball's Chief Revenue Officer, Jane Oxley and Global Head of Product, Adele Hoyle recently got together to discuss all the exciting new software features that are coming down the pipe.

​When we launched our suite of communication and collaboration tools in Smokeball last year, 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. The “chat” look and feel, while familiar, was unlike anything else available to small law firms, especially when it was embedded in directly the case management software they use to run their practice.

Whether you’re emerging from quarantine or setting out on your own, 2020 has become the year of the great equaliser. Never before have firms, courts, and clients been so reliant on technology and innovation to ensure success. ​

​​We have always been proud of our amazing company culture here at Smokeball, and now we have another reason to be:

We've been named #14 Best Place to Work 2020, awarded for the second year running!

​Just shy of a year ago, we started our journey enhancing Smokeball’s Trust Accounting in preparation for the certification submission with the Law Society of New South Wales. ​

Depending on which set of statistics you look at, you are spending far too much time managing your emails. It is so ubiquitous that it is a running joke within the legal industry. 

​As a legal technology innovator, InfoTrack provides you with a suite of productivity tools to make your practice more efficient. Integration can transform your firm, reducing the need for repeat data entry to bring simplicity and ease to your matters, making your firm more efficient and productive.

Since the birth of the legal industry in the mid-20th century, lawyers had depended on typewriters and telephones to do most of their business, and the technology used by other types of businesses were essentially the same as the technology used by law firms. However, in the early 1950s, technological industries began to market directly to law firms. Let’s explore the history and how legal technology has evolved to fit the needs of today’s law firms.