Tools for Your Law Practice

Case and Practice Management

• AbacusLaw
• Advologix
• Amicus Attorney
• eLawManager
• Elite 3E
• PerfectPractice
• Practice Master
• ProLaw
• ProLaw READY
• Rocket Matter

Document Management Systems

You Just Want Something That Will Help You Find that Research Memo?

• Copernic
• Google Desktop
• ISYS Desktop
• X1

Or Something More Sophisticated…?

• DOCSOpen
• DocuXplorer
• Dokmee
• eDocPlus
• FileCenter
• Interwoven
• Knowledgetree
• NetDocuments
• OpenDocMan
• PaperPort
• Worldox

Creating & Working With PDFs

• Acrobat for Legal Professionals
• Bluebeam PDF Revu
• CutePDF
• Foxit
• NitroPDF
• PDF Converter Professional
• pdfDocs Desktop
• PDFOnline
• Smart PDF Creator
• Zetadocs PDF

Scanning & OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

• ABBYY FineReader
• FileConvert
• OmniPage

Document Automation

• EasyDocs
• HotDocs
• iCreate

Redlining and Document Comparison

• iRedline
• pdfDocs compareDocs
• Workshare Professional

Document Security

• 3BClean
• iScrub
• Workshare Protect

Project Management & Collaboration with Clients and Other Lawyers

• Active Collab
• Approver
• BaseCamp
• Central Desktop
• ClientSpot
• Collectivex
• Foonz
• Google Docs
• Huddle
• Office Live Small Business (Microsoft)
• Yugma
• Zimbra Collaboration Suite
• A wiki. There are many choices, try PBWiki or the software behind Wikipedia MediaWiki as a start.

Marketing & CRM (“client” relations management)

• ContactNet
• InterAction
• Sugar CRM
• Zoho CRM
• See also CRM Buyer (check out articles on use of CRM in law firms here, here, and here)
• LinkedIn
• LawLink
• The more “social” social networking sites–Facebook, Eons (50+ set), TeeBeeDee (40+ set)
• Ning
• ConstantContact
• iContact
• LetterPop

Voice Recognition

• Dragon Naturally Speaking
• IBM Via Voice
• Simon (open source project)

Note-taking & Outlining

• EverNote
• Google Notebook
• iOutliner
• OneNote (Microsoft)
• Zoho Notebook

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