The National Creditors Bar Association Law Practice Management Blog

If you hate taking notes for meetings – and, really, who doesn’t : it’s the w ors t – there are lots of AI-based notetaking apps proliferating across the webconferencing world .  If you haven’t tried them yet, now would be a good time, to test out the options.   If you use Zoom , Microsoft Teams or Google Meet – each of the products have built-in notetaking features.   Zoom’s AI Companion has a number of useful features, including for notetaking .  Microsoft Teams Premium features AI notetaking .  Google’s Duet AI overlay features notetaking tools .     There are also standalone AI noteta king applications that you can use in conjunction with video conferencing tools, like the ones I mentioned, including Otter and Fireflies .  Additionally, there are browser extensions, for Chrome, Edge, Safari and other popular browsers, that could also be leveraged .   In other words, you have no shortage of choices.     So, if you loath...

Deep fake videos that are made without the subject ’ s permission are unquestionably evil .       But, what if you could deep fake yourself, for good ?  Well, if you are currently doing (or, if you want to be doing) video marketing, deep fakes may be the best thing going .     How many times have you said to yourself, in seeking more time: ‘I wish I could clone myself ’.     Well, now – at least in terms of video marketing: you sort of can.     AI video generators can capture your ‘avatar’ (your image, and speech patterns), and use it to generate videos that you don’t actually have to record .  This is kind of meta – but, you’re effectively creating scripts for your digital self to read.     If this all sounds too crazy to be true, don’t take my word for it.     Here’s a non-exhaustive list of 11 such tools you can try .     Artificial intelligence is about to take automation to a whole othe...

Law firms usually collect money in arrears, ie – we’ve done the work, now kindly pay us .  Most often, that payment is collected via a standard invoicing process .  A bill is sent to the client; then, the firm waits to get paid .  And waits . . . And waits . . .     That’s because the way that attorneys have always managed the process has placed the control of the situation exclusively in the hands of their clients .  The clients can pay when they wish; and, there isn’t necessarily a whole lot of motivation to pay, if the work has already been done, by that point.   But, there is a better way – automating payments .   And, it can be done in a law firm.     Though, you may need to consider reassessing how you manage your collecti on process.     So, instead of following that traditional pathway: Have your clients sign a credit card payment authorization, like this one .   Once you have the client credit card infor...