Tools For Your Law Office

This page focuses on tools, services, and resources that are built for, or can be adapted to, the needs of your law office. They include online web tools and software and some that can be downloaded. Although we’ve also included more traditional software in this category (in the nature of the beast), we’ve tried to find as many free and low-cost Web 2.0 alternatives as well. The links are in alphabetical order by category, not by preference.

Office Suites

• Google Docs and Google Apps for you Domain (see an example of an Intranet through the Sites tool here)
• OpenOffice
  
• ThinkFree Online
• StarOffice
• Zoho Suite

Accounting, Trust Accounting & Time-Billing

• AbacusLaw
• Amicus Accounting
• Billing Matters
• Bill4Time
• GNUCash
• Harvest
• Juris
• Legal Billing from Chaos Software
• LiveTimer
• Paymo Timetracker
• PCLaw
• RTG
• SlimTimer
• Tabs3
• Tick
• Tussman Program
• Xero

Mail & Shipping

• EarthClass Mail
• Postful
• TrackMyShipments
• TrackThePack

Faxing

• eFax
• FaxPipe
• FaxZero
• FreeFax
• MyFax
• Packetel Fax Service (receive faxes as PDFs in your email)
• ZetaFax

Phones

• Bizfon (small office)
• Gizmo5
• GrandCentral (Google)
• MailStreet
• OneBox
• Packet8
• ResponsePoint (Microsoft)
• Skype
• Vonage
• VoiceWing (Verizon)

Conference Calls & Online Meetings

• Adobe Acrobat Connect
• DimDim
• FreeConferenceCall
• GoToMeeting
• Spreed
• WebEx
• YackPack
• Zoho Meeting

Backup & Filesharing

• AmeriVault
• BackupRight
• Box.net
• Carbonite
• CoreVault
• ElephantDrive
• EVault
• eSureIt
• iBackup
• iDrive
• Iron Mountain Digital
• LiveVault
• .Mac
• MegaUpload
• Mozy
• xDrive
• A Mashable.com Collection of Online Storage (80+)

Travel Planning

• Dopplr
• FareCast (currently doesn’t include Rochester)
• Flightstats
• Kayak
• SeatGuru
• TripAdvisor
• TripIt

If you have found a new resource not identified above, feel free to leave a comment with a link below.