Uplifting news to start 2010 with: DreamSimplicity.com website ranked LawRD - Reports on Demand on its Top 25 web solutions:

http://www.dreamsimplicity.com/top25.html

DreamSimplicity is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions directory wherein one can find articles, news, videos and events on this industry.

We stress out one of the main features of SaaS solutions: there’s nothing to install and start working right away. It is easy as pie working with LawRD on your daily life: it just takes an Internet connection, a web browser  and link to http://www.lawrd.com.

We are waiting your visit.

LawRD has taken another step towards introduction to the international market, by joining a restricted group of sponsors of the II Competencia de Arbitage Comercial that took place at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, from 24 through 28  September last.

The event, a joint collaboration of the Law College of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Jurisprudence College of the Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá), enrolled over 400 participants from allover Latin America, who were given the chance to work on practical matters on Commercial Arbitration, had the guidance of professionals from top level law firms in this legal area.

This opportunity was presented to us by Estefania Santos, an argentinian lawyer who is an expert on legal issues concerning IT and author of the blog Internet y Derecho, whose most professional support in the introduction of LawRD to the argentinian market made our participation possible.

According to Estefania, LawRD’s presence there was a successful one due to the fact that it is a SaaS, by its interface and ease if use, and the usefulness of its reports, accessible at any time from an internet connection, being these what  mainly made the app stand out from the competition.

This event stands as a milestone from LawRD in the latin american market, by delivering an innovative and insightful service.

Below you can see the LawRD video we made specially for the event and that caught everyone’s ear at the meeting:

It took place in Brussels on the 25-26th of September last the European Lawyers Brussels Conference.

The event was organized by the European Lawyers team. This group gathers presently 2.873 lawyers from allover the world on Facebook and is a perfect example of the power of networking that the internet enables like the BBC points out.

LawRD - Reports on Demand could not fail to support this event. The photo depicts our COO when presenting our law firm management SaaS application at the conference:

LawRD team wishes to say thanks to the organization and everyone at the conference for the nice and professional manner in which we were received.

Sam Glover, Editor in Chief at Lawyerist.com, posted a review on LawRD - Reports on Demand titled: LawRD: Affordable Law Practice Management Software as a Service.

Beyond welcoming a new competitor in the SaaS world aiming at law firms, Sam Glover points out:

• The features that make LawRD stand out from the competition: “LawRD has some features the competition lacks, such as smart, preset billing configurations, always-present contextual help, and a great interface.”
• The reports issued by LawRD: “RD stands for Reports on Demand, and LawRD excels at providing helpful, good-looking reports for all aspects of your law practice, from productivity to profitability.”
• LawRD pricing: “But for all that, LawRD’s best feature may be its price. (…) LawRD has a realistic pricing structure, just $20 per user, a third of the others”

One more thing to clear the issue on server location: LawRD uses Amazon’s AWS, therefore the datacenter is not located in Portugal

Sam Glover wraps up saying the following: “Overall, though, I was quite impressed with LawRD”.

Nicole Black, a lawyer, blogger and law book writer, mentions LawRD on her article Law Practice Management in the Cloud posted in the Practicing Law in the 21st Century-A Law & Technology Blog.
 
Nicole singles out three SaaS solutions presently available:

If, after balancing the benefits and drawbacks, you decide to use a Web-based practice management system, there are a number of excellent SaaS providers that offer software to manage law practices online, including Clio (www.goclio.com), Rocket Matter (www.rocketmatter.com) and LawRD (www.lawrd.com).
 
This article is worthy careful reading once it sums up in few words the advantages of the SaaS model:

Advantages include lower costs due to reduced overhead, less hassle related to maintaining the and upgrading the case management system and greater flexibility, since the Web-based system can be accessed anywhere, at anytime.

An issue of security: where is my data lodged? Answer: at Amazon´s servers!

The data of our users is lodged on the servers of Amazon via Amazon Web Services (AWS). This way, LawRD provides its users the same level of security as the one given by that famous e-commerce web site.

Jeff Barr, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon, wrote this about LawRD on AWS blog:

After paying a very modest per-user monthly fee of 14 Euros per month, users can track the facts (what, when, where, and how) for each case, client, and employee. Timesheets, contact lists, invoices, and reports are all readily available. All data is encrypted and of course there’s no local software to install.

If you want to know more about data lodging on Amazon, please read the PDF on Security Policy, below:

https://www.lawrd.com/html/files/en/security.pdf