LexisNexis Teams Up with Tech Giants to Offer “Hat Trick” of Business Tools to Small Law Firm

Global News

23
Jan
2015

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LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced today that the LexisNexis Firm Manager® team will offer a new “Better Together Bundle.” The bundle combines three essential business products or services – secure, easy to use online practice management, Microsoft Office 365™ productivity software and web hosting from GoDaddy.com, LLC – that small law firms typically need to launch or grow a law practice. 

“Firm Manager was designed with the input of hundreds of attorneys in small law firms.  We continue to listen to our users and simultaneously leverage our industry relationships to develop an ecosystem of technology companies to work together to add value to the law firm market,” said Susan Harman, vice president and product champion for the Firm Manager team.  “We welcome the addition of GoDaddy to our alliance and clearly we are thrilled to again team with Microsoft in serving the legal community.”

Specifically the “Better Together Bundle” provides small law firms discounted pricing for the first year on the following:

• 40% discount on a Firm Manager subscription with an annual contract
• 50% discount on MSRP for Microsoft Office 365™ Small Business Premium software
• GoDaddy domain hosting with a “business” website builder and $100 in Bing® pay-per-click advertising credits at no additional charge

The announcement comes on the heels of a strategic technology integration initiative the Firm Manager team announced late last year, through which the Firm Manager development team began work to integrate its practice management solution with Microsoft® Outlook and Microsoft Office 365™ productivity solutions.

Among other benefits, that integration with the Firm Manager product permits bi-directional synchronization between calendar tools in both products and an app that enables attorneys and legal professionals to save documents generated in Microsoft products to the Firm Manager application in the cloud.  For example, an attorney can save a document created in Microsoft Word to a client file or matter created in the law firm’s Firm Manager account. The Firm Manager application has just recently been added to the Microsoft Apps for Office online store. 

“Firm Manager is a solid practice management tool for solo and small firms,” wrote Heidi S. Alexander, a Law Practice Management Advisor with Massachusetts law Office Management Assistance program (Mass LOMAP) in a Firm Manager review published on Attorney at Work. “With new features forthcoming, a demonstrated commitment to product development and an eye toward user experience, this product will only get better.”