2024 State of Law: Growth Amid Transformation

2024 State of Law: Growth Amid Transformation

A Smokeball exclusive survey

Texas State of the Law Report

A Smokeball exclusive survey for Texas lawyers

The Ultimate Guide to Law Firm Intake

Stand out online and effortlessly turn more leads into clients.

Smokeball’s Approach to Cybersecurity

Security of the client lifecycle with and without Smokeball

How to Grow Your Law Firm: A Business Development Cheat Sheet

A step-by-step guide to mapping, tracking and delegating your law firm's business development

Tech-stacked Law Firm Report: How Technology is Changing the Legal Industry in 2023

Smokeball surveyed 200 law firms with 50 or fewer staff to discover how technology has changed their work. In this report, we share our findings about how law firms use technology today, and so much more.

Workflow Checklist for Personal Injury Matters

For personal injury firms, the stakes are high, and the cases are complex. We’ve created this guide to help personal injury firms streamline their workflows and get the most out of their time and resources.

Workflow Checklist for Family Law Matters

Family lawyers have a lot to juggle during divorce cases. This resource provides detailed instructions for creating dissolution matter processes, enabling legal professionals to streamline their workflows and become more productive in their practice.

Essential Business Law Firm Workflows Checklist for Attorneys

From contract drafting to mergers and acquisitions, understanding key principles of efficient workflows is essential for any modern corporate lawyer or business attorney. This checklist aims to provide workflows that will help business law firms streamline their processes.

Get Paid Faster with Automated Billing and Payments

Step-by-Step and At-A-Glance

Double Your Billable Hours, Work Less

Fix the billing problem you may not know you have.

State of the Law 2023: The Great Automation

A Smokeball exclusive survey

Workflow Checklist for Real Estate Transactions in Illinois

Streamline & Scale Your Processes, Button-Up Legal Team Collaboration

Workflow Checklist for Estate Planning & Probate Matters

With this checklist as a guide, estate planning law firms can easily implement processes that will streamline operations and guarantee quality services for their clients.

The Definitive Guide to Better Legal Billing

Learn how with the "Definitive Guide to Better Legal Billing, Collecting Client Payments and Driving Law Firm Profitability" from Smokeball + LawPay.

Future of Law

This free e-book lays out the biggest forthcoming changes to the legal field, some of which are already on the horizon.

Rethink Your Law Firm Now

A FREE checklist to emerge from the crisis or the crowd.

Smokeball's 2022 Job Interview Checklist

Ask the right questions + hire great law firm candidates

Smokeball Exclusive Survey: Law + the Great Resignation

A Smokeball exclusive survey

8 Benefits of Automated Time Tracking with Smokeball

Capture all your billable time and grow more efficient and profitable

The Healthy Remote Lawyer

This guide is designed to add new tools to your remote-work toolbox, helping you assess your wellbeing, set boundaries and improve your quality of life.

Ultimate Guide to Small Law Firm KPIs

Download our free e-book "The Ultimate Guide to Small Law Firm KPIs" and learn how to apply KPI data to your practice.

The Three Pillars of Successful Small Law Firms

When it comes to building a successful law firm, there are three pillars that must stand strong for your firm to succeed: Organization, Productivity and Profitability.

Hiring and Managing Staff to Increase Law Firm Profitability

Download our free e-book "Hiring and Managing Staff to Increase Law Firm Profitability" to learn tips on growing your practice and finding new levels of profitability.

The Illinois Attorney’s Guide to e-Filing

Download our free guide "The Illinois Attorney’s Guide to e-Filing" to learn tips on increasing productivity with a seamless e-Filing process.

Law Firm Document Automation: The Basics

Learn all about how automating standard documents improves every aspect of small firm practice.

Essential Guide to Law Firm Succession Planning

Smokeball’s e-book, "The Essential Guide to Law Firm Succession Planning," puts planning for the future into perspective.

21 Days to a Healthier Practice

Personal Health for Professional Strength

Valuing Your Time as a Family Law Attorney

For family law attorneys who want to maximize their law firm profits, time is the golden goose that must be nurtured.

Social Media for Personal Injury Attorneys

Our e-book by social media expert and attorney Scott Malouf explores the highs and lows of using social media to market a personal injury law firm.

The Ultimate Guide to Cloud-Based Legal Software

This simple guide offers explanations to what Cloud-based software is, what benefits and drawbacks may exist, and tips for understanding the best match for individual law firms.

Is Legal Practice Management Software Worth It?

This free e-book, "Is Legal Practice Management Software Worth It?", not only answers its titular question, it gives you a ready-made rubric to use when researching legal software, and a ready-made argument for when you finally make the case to invest in a software.

Choosing the Right Remote Cloud

We’ve designed this guide to ensure that you only entrust your firm to a cloud platform that protects you, your colleagues, and your clients from further disruption.

Investing in Your Law Firm

Legal Software Buyer's Guide

Legal Practice Management Software Buying Guide

Solve your small law firm’s pain points + meet your goals

Your Smokeball 2022 Spring Cleaning Checklist

Set your firm up for your most productive, profitable year yet

Smokeball’s 2022 Law Firm Hiring Guide

Tips + trends to help you hire great attorneys + staff

Turning Crisis Into Opportunity

This brief guide is designed to quickly provide an overview of issues your law firms can consider as you reconsider your business strategies to match a new era of practicing law.

Guide for Law Firms with Remote or Hybrid Work Environments

This brief guide will walk you through the software solutions and processes needed to run your best remote or hybrid firm.

What is Case Management Software?

Download our free e-book, "What is Case Management Software?" to learn how and why law firm technology has evolved and what components add up to great case management software.

The Solo and Small Firm Billing Problem

Smokeball set out to learn: Are fee-earners really only billing 2.5 hours a day? And if so, how can we solve the problem?

Guide to Implementing or Changing Legal Software

Stuck and unable to move forward with transforming your law firm's technology? This guide will help you navigate the process.

The Great Resignation: Law Firms + Technology

How legal technology helped firms of any size adapt and thrive

Getting Automated: An End-to-End Guide to Law Firm Automation

Save time and become more efficient and productive

Before & After Implementing Legal Document Automation

Say goodbye to “find and replace” and hello to accuracy and efficiency

How to Automate Legal Documents with Smokeball

Create Documents in Seconds

Social Media Workbook for Attorneys

How to put your best foot forward online.

Smokeball's Behind the Times Report

Smokeball’s cloud-based legal case management software helps your law firm become more productive and profitable.

The Power of Automation: How to Streamline Your Firm

Join attorney Jordan Turk as she talks about common law firm tasks that are ripe for automation, from non-billable activities to workflows to document management and everything in between.

Billing 101: Best Practices for Running a Modern and Ethical Firm

Join attorney Jordan Turk as she takes you through her most effective billing strategies, including tips on what to do when you have way too much aged receivables on your books.

Optimizing Law Firm Operations: How to Run Your Best Firm

Discover how to make the changes necessary to improve your firm’s long-term success and viability with Jordan Turk and Jared Correia.

Mastering Microsoft Word: Tips and Tricks for Legal Professionals

Learn the best ways to utilize Word and how to get the most out of your legal technology setup.

AI for Attorneys: ChatGPT and Beyond

Enhance legal practice efficiency with AI: this webinar will explore AI basics and its application in the legal field for law firm benefits.

Building Strong Client Relationships: Strategies for Attorneys

Discover how to strengthen client relationships and ensure compliance with your state bar in the legal tech space with attorney Jordan Turk in this free Smokeball CLE webinar.

The Little Things Add Up: How Small Automations in Billing Can Save Big Time

Join Product Manager Chad Holaway to learn how your legal team can reduce clicks by combining actions, using templates, and taking bulk actions. Discover essential features for powerful changes in your legal billing software.

A Guide to Law Firm Succession Planning

This CLE is designed to help attorneys prepare for what happens next, whether it be a planned transition out of law entirely, or a surprise cessation of practice.

How to Ethically and Cost Effectively Grow Your Law Firm

Join recovering attorneys Jordan Turk and Seth Price as they discuss best practices for running and growing your law practice, as well as war stories from their firm days.

Reclaim Your Day with Automated Law Firm Workflows

In this free webinar, learn how you can leverage and automate workflows in your firm and get tips on how to make your practice more efficient.

Soft Skills and Business Strategies For Nurturing Potential Clients Into Retaining Clients

Effectively managing the intake of new clients, also called leads, is critical to starting off your attorney-client relationship on the right foot.

How to Improve Efficiency and Productivity to Grow Your Law Firm

You’ll gain the tips and tools your firm needs — this year and beyond — to achieve greater success and productivity.

Trends, Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs in Family Law

During this webinar, you will learn ways to avoid common bottleneck problems, while also finding the very best solutions for handling these issues when they do arise.

Managing Stress in Uncertain Times: Science-based Techniques to Apply Today

This webinar will help everyone in your law firm find balance and ease anxiety, even in uncertain times.

Improving Performance through (Im)Perfectionism

While that word is not usually pejorative, Chelsy will walk us through how perfectionism can be ruinous to careers and even lives.

End-to-End Law Firm Automation

Hannah understands first-hand some of the sticking points of running your best law firm, so she is going to help you identify where you can streamline your processes throughout your day with automation.

Why Firms Are Billing Less Than They Did 20 Years Ago: How to Reverse the Trend

This webinar reveals how simply tracking a fee earner’s billable time accurately and automatically can turn your firm’s fortunes around.

Actionable Data from Firm Insights

Learn how Firm Insights provides clarity for your business development, Join Mary Ellen Kelleher, Smokeball's VP of Product, as she shares what she's learned from thousands of Smokeball client interviews, best practices from firms that have grown quickly while partnered with Smokeball, and her approach to understanding the needs of firms trying to grow.

The Healthy Remote Lawyer

Chelsy will walk us through how to navigate working from home amongst all the other changes and stressors that accompany working in law.

Solving Billing to Grow Your Law Firm

This free on-demand webinar is presented by Smokeball’s Andrea Valle, a former attorney and current billing and onboarding expert.

How Modern Consumer Habits Are Changing Law Firm Intake

The host of the webinar, Jared D. Correia, Esq., has years of experience practicing and consulting on the best methods of client attraction and retention.

Uplevel Your Firm’s Engagement, Intake and Lead Conversion Process

Smith.al and Smokeball are coming together to talk about actionable solutions your law firm can employ to make this happen immediately.

The Practice of Cognitive Kindness for Improved Performance in the New Year

Join lawyer-turned-psychotherapist Chelsy Castro, JD, MA, MSW, LCSW for a new Smokeball webinar, "The Practice of Cognitive Kindness for Improved Performance."

Build Better Litigation Efficiencies

Join Smokeball Senior Trainer Sara Sultan for "Build Better Litigation Efficiencies: Helpful Tips for Your Small Firm."

From Clicks, to Calls, to Clients: Attracting and Converting Clients

In this session, Gyi Tsakalakis explores how to create remarkable experiences and create an emotional connection with new clients.

Digital Marketing for Your Law Firm

Don’t know anything about law firm marketing? This webinar is for you! Invest in watching this video and save time and money by helping customers find your firm and become valuable clients.

Owning Your Success: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

During this webinar you will learn how to identify imposter syndrome, manage anxiety and enjoy the results of your hard work.

Burnout Prevention

Prevent lawyer burnout and improve your well-being with Smokeball Legal Software's on-demand webinar.

Law and the Great Resignation: What’s Next for America’s Law Firms?

Join Dana Moran, Smokeball communications manager, for this free webinar exploring the results of Smokeball's exclusive Law + The Great Resignation survey.

How to Increase Efficiency by Streamlining Medical Record Retrieval

Learn how Smokeball’s practice management software works with YoCierge, a nationwide medical record retrieval system, to automate the retrieval process and give your team hours back in their day.

Productivity Hacks for Reducing Anxiety and Getting Things Done

This webinar identifies how unmitigated attorney anxiety can negatively affect both your wellbeing and productivity, and offers accessible tools and techniques to prevent anxiety from holding you back.

Rethinking Law Firm Culture and Hiring After the Great Resignation

Join Jordan Turk, attorney and Smokeball legal technology advisor, for this free webinar. She'll share how technology and modern work practices help law firms evolve to meet this unprecedented moment in law firm hiring and culture.

Key Metrics & Processes for Small Law Success

Learn about the key metrics and processes for small law firm success in this on-demand webinar from Smokeball Legal Software.

Take Time Back with Smokeball Billing

Save time and improve your billing process with Smokeball Legal Software's on-demand webinar.

How the Most Successful Personal Injury Law Firms Run Their Practice

Discover how Smokeball Legal Software can help law firms succeed in this on-demand webinar.

How the Most Successful Law Firms Run Their Practice

How the Most Successful Family Law Firms Run Their Practice

See why Smokeball users report being less stressed and having happier clients, all while billing almost twice the industry average.

How the Most Successful Estate Planning Law Firms Run Their Practice

See why Smokeball users report being less stressed and having happier clients, all while billing almost twice the industry average.

Run Your Best Hybrid Law Firm: How to Get Ahead in 2022

Gain valuable logistical tips, whether you're just starting a new law practice or improving hybrid work practices at your existing firm.

Prep Your Law Firm for a More Productive, Profitable 2022

With Smokeball version 8.0, we are upgrading the Smokeball home screen with a powerful new home dashboard. Join us to get a sneak preview of the next generation of Smokeball!

Owning Your Success: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in the Legal Field

During this webinar you will learn how to identify imposter syndrome, manage anxiety and enjoy the results of your hard work.

Mindfulness Beyond Stress Management: A ‘How-To’ for the Skeptical Lawyer

Learn how legal professionals can benefit from a mindfulness practice, and gain valuable, science-based advice for incorporating mindfulness into your everyday routine.

How to Market Your Law Firm Ethically and Effectively

Join Mark Homer for this free webinar, where he will reveal the best ways to market your firm without violating the professional rules of conduct.

A Lawyer’s Guide to Improving Well-being in the Workplace + Beyond

Explore the benefits of emotional intelligence in the legal industry with Smokeball Legal Software's on-demand webinar.

Cybersecurity for Law Firms: How to Minimize Risk and Protect Your Office

Join Jordan Turk for this free webinar. She'll share cybersecurity nightmares, as well as give you tips to mitigate your risk and keep you compliant...

Embrace the Robots: Automate Law Firm Tasks and Grow Your Practice

Non-billable tasks are necessary — but they shouldn’t occupy your every waking hour (or the firm’s profit margins). That’s where automation comes in.

Expect the Unexpected: Disaster Planning and Recovery for Your Law Firm

Your law firm can’t always anticipate a disaster — but you can prepare your response well in advance. Protect your firm against natural or manmade disasters...

Trust Yourself with Trust Accounting

Penalties for trust account violations are some of the most common sanctions assessed against attorneys by their state bar. Violating your state bar’s trust...

Elevate Your Client Intake: 12 Ways to Improve Your Process

Clients are the soul of every law practice. And arguably, the intake process to procure those clients is the most critical part of managing a firm.

Holiday Email Blasts Using Smokeball!

Join Client Trainer, Roy Clifton as he demonstrates how to use your contacts within Smokeball to create an email list and then create/send out a mailer using Microsoft's Mail Merge features.

Get the Most out of your Dashboard

Join Senior Trainer Sara Sultan and learn about our new Dashboard widgets and how to maximize the use of existing widgets.

Developing Your 2024 Marketing Plan: Laying the Groundwork

The way clients seek out and hire law firms is changing, and your marketing plan should, too. Join us to explore the changing legal marketplace, evaluate your firm's current positioning, set goals and strategize for the future.

Explore Smokeball's Newest Billing Reports

Take a deeper look at Smokeball's newest billing reports. Maureen will also help you navigate through the exciting updates made to existing reports.

Logging Off with Confidence: Preparing Your Law Firm for Holiday Closures

The holidays are around the corner, and every legal professional deserves to enjoy a break. Learn how to have processes and systems in place to ensure your law firm runs smoothly while staff are out of office.

Revamp Your Intake Process with LeadPro & MatterFlow

Learn how to take advantage of Smokeball's new features to improve efficiency in your firm's intake and information gathering processes with trainer Emily Prazak. Add links to your website to generate leads, send forms for your client to fill out, and more.

Maximizing Law Firm Revenue: Reporting and Collections

Stay ahead of the curve with this webinar crafted to give you actionable insights and best practices on law firm financial health and growth.

Supercharge your PI Practice and Referral Network

Dive deep into the tools and technologies that will streamline your personal injury practice and supercharge your referral network.

All Aboard! Offboarding and Onboarding Staff

Join Senior Trainer Zac Meyer as he walks you through the process of how to smoothly transition from an old employee leaving your firm to a new employee joining your firm.

New Rates? No Problem!

Have a client with multiple matters that requires a specific hourly rate for each staff member (client rate sets)? Did you increase your rate to apply to only new matters? You can do it all using Rates Sets.

Introducing the Power of TXdocs and Smokeball

Dive into how this powerful collaboration can redefine efficiency, streamline processes, and elevate the standard of legal practice management and documentation.

How to Create an Exceptional Client Experience

Today, there are a variety of methods for clients to find, engage and hire your law firm. To ensure a great reputation, it’s critical to provide both high-quality legal services and an exceptional level of client service.

Integration Round-up

Join Senior Client Trainer Sara Sultan as she gives a summary of all of Smokeball’s existing integrations.

What You Need to Know About QBO: Using Smokeball's QuickBooks Online Integration

Dive into Smokeball's QuickBooks Online integration with billing expert Maureen Stott. Learn about the integration, data insights, and pro tips for a strong practice.

New Smokeball Features and Enhancements: January 2023 - June 2023

Come learn about the new features and enhancements Smokeball has added in the first half of 2023.

e-Invoices, the New and Improved Option in Invoicing

Say goodbye to payment troubles! Join Senior Trainer Sara Sultan to master best practices and learn to track invoice views with e-Invoices.

Learn What it Means to Keep Your Firm Evergreen

Manage client trust accounts with Smokeball Billing's evergreen retainer feature! Join Trainer Emily Prazak to track balances, send requests, and maintain invoices seamlessly.

Explore Communicate and Smokeball’s Client Portal Features

Smokeball has been hard at work adding more functionality to the client portal. Join our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, as she shows you what the Client Portal looks like from your client’s or third party's point of view.

Balancing Act: Bringing Balances Into Smokeball Billing

New to Smokeball Billing and wondering where to start? Join our legal billing trainer, Maureen Stott, as she walks you through how to bring existing client funds and outstanding balances into Smokeball Billing from your previous billing system and the best practices to help you get started on the right foot.

Law Firm Financial Wellness: Law Firm Compensation Models

Discover various law firm compensation models for all roles, including non-attorney sales staff. Explore pros, cons, and practical tips to choose the right model for your firm.

How to Set up and use Email Templates with Smokeball

Do you find yourself copying and pasting from previous sent emails? Join Senior Trainer Sara Sultan and learn how to create email templates in Smokeball. Not only will you avoid the need to copy and paste, but Smokeball’s automation fields will save you time by pulling data from the matter into your

Streamline Your Estate Planning Practice with Smokeball Integrations

Learn about current and upcoming Smokeball integrations that solve specific challenges from client communication to payment processing for estate planning and probate practices.

Onboarding and Offboarding Users in Smokeball

Discover Smokeball's best practices for a seamless transition when onboarding new hires or bidding farewell to departing employees. Join Senior Trainer Zac Meyer and ensure a smooth journey with Smokeball.

Law Firm Financial Wellness: Cash Flow Mastery

Law firm owners face unique financial challenges, requiring specialized knowledge and strategies. In this webinar, learn key tips for a financially stable and prosperous firm.

Billing Communication & Managing Client Expectations

Hop into Smokeball Billing with Maureen Stott and explore the variety of ways you can communicate information to clients and help manage their expectations when it comes to billing.

Automated Calendar Rules and Deadlines: Saving Time and Gaining Peace of Mind

Are you losing hours and missing important court dates by manually managing your calendar? Join us and our partner LawToolBox as they share how to automate your calendar and deadlines with Smokeball so you never miss another deadline.

Law Firm Financial Wellness: From Tax-Time Nightmare to Feel-Good Financials

Experts Laura Kennedy & Chelsey Lambert will share what's necessary to keep your financials in order. Learn the importance of tracking financial KPIs and how to review key reports to ensure your firm is on track to meet its financial goals.

Call Me Maybe - How to Best Get Contacts Out of Smokeball for Marketing and Referral Reports and Tracking

Join Senior Trainer Zac Meyer as he walks you through the best ways to ensure you are tracking your files for referral purposes and then asking for a referral at the end.

Payments, Credits, Reversals and Deletions, Oh My!

“Waive” goodbye to your billing stress. Learn when you should be applying payments vs. credits, deleting vs. reversing, and how to put your best foot forward when moving ahead with your Billing Cycle.

The Blueprint for High-Performing Law Firm Websites

As more consumers turn to find a lawyer online, you must make the best first (digital) impression possible. LawLytics VP of Product Rachel Chalot and Smokeball VP of Partnerships Chelsey Lambert will lead an informative session on what makes an effective law firm website.

Let your Workflows do the Work so you can Work from Home

Join Senior Trainer Zac Meyer as he walks you through how to create workflows to automate the assembly line of your days and matters from start to finish.

Service of Process: Understanding the Legal Procedure

In this free webinar, resident experts Grace Silva and Chelsey Lambert will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of service of process, including the legal requirements, methods of service, and common issues that may arise.

What to Send in for Automation When Sending in Your Documents

Are you spending hours trying to figure out the best documents to send to Smokeball for automation? Let Senior Trainer Sara Sultan ease your mind with examples of what are good documents to send to Smokeball.

Keeping Your Information Safe with Permissions!

Join Client Trainer Roy Clifton as we discuss how to keep your sensitive firm information safe with Firm Permissions!

Utilizing Tools to Streamline your Practice

Settlement Statements for PI Firms

The Power of Document Automation

Stay Connected with Smokeball's Communicate

Smokeball Integrations with Sara Sultan

How the Most Successful Personal Injury Law Firms Run Their Practice

Organizing your Matters in Smokeball

New Smokeball Features and Enhancements: July 2022

New Estate Planning Matter Type Update

Interoffice Communications with Smokeball’s Communicate

Reports and Extensions

Community for New Users

It’s Electric – Signatures!

How to Lock It Down: Secure Communications

Join Client Trainer Roy Clifton to go over Smokeball’s Communicate feature, which allows you to securely request and receive documents from clients and co-counsels alike. Additionally we will discuss the benefits of being able to use this to exchange texts via the app and archive to your matter.

Automating Your Documents with Smokeball: Party Select Ask

What happens when you need to generate a document for a specific party on a matter, but there are multiple contacts entered? Perhaps you have multiple defendants in a matter and each one needs to be served their own discovery request. Join Client Trainer Sara Sultan as she demonstrates an advanced automation feature called Party Select Ask.

Getting the Most of Your Data with Matter Reporting

Join Legal Product Specialist Josh Hehner as he goes over Matter Reporting to maximize your use of the data at your fingertips.

Leading with your Best Foot Forward

Join Senior Trainer Zac Meyer as he walks you through Matter Stages, Workflows, and Reports that are Leads specific and how you can set yourself up for success before your lead becomes a matter.

Stale Money: How to Beat the Collections Odds without Feeling like a Debt Collector

In this free webinar, law firm payments expert and Smokeball VP of Partnerships Chelsey Lambert will share best practices for clients new to your firm and for collecting on long overdue accounts.

How to Save Time with eFile, Process Serving and Docket Sync Tools

Learn how to save time and reduce the number of applications/websites you use for cases by leveraging Smokeball’s built-in eFiling, Process Serving, and Docket Sync tools.

Working from Home with Smokeball’s Communicate

Our Director of Product, Mary Ellen Kelleher, and our Training Team Lead, Javier Rodriquez-Martin, will show you how your firm can utilize Communicate to safely share documents with your colleagues, save all conversations directly to matters, and help manage ongoing conversations about your cases – from anywhere.

Instant Messaging your Clients Securely with Smokeball’s Communicate

Our Director of Product, Mary Ellen Kelleher will provide a tutorial and best practices guide for using Communicate to message your clients and share files securely.

Mass Communication to your Clients and Contacts

Join our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, as she walks you through two ways to send mass communications to your Smokeball contacts: through our Campaign Monitor integration and through Outlook’s Mail Merge tools.

Improving Collections with Smokeball

Chad Holaway, Smokeball’s resident Legal Billing Specialist, will walk you through Smokeball’s tools to help you improve collections for your firm.

New Feature Showcase: Applying Retainer Payments in Bulk

Join Mary Ellen Kelleher, Director of Product at Smokeball, as we review our new bulk retainer payments feature.

E-Filing through Smokeball

Join our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, and InfoTrack’s Client Success Manager, Karolina Sikorska, to learn about the different ways to efile documents from Smokeball. We will go over the Publish online feature in Smokeball and our integration with InfoTrack.

Real Estate Tips and Tricks for Using Smokeball

Learn tips and tricks for Real Estate Residential Buy and Sell matters from our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan. The focus will be on how to best enter real estate agents for tracking how many matters you have worked on them with, how to track different types of Escrow, and how to best utilize workflows.

Automatic Time Tracking: How to Leverage AI in Smokeball

Join our Director of Product, Mary Ellen Kelleher, as she walks you through best practices for leveraging Smokeball’s Automatic Time Tracking features.

New Feature Showcase: Release 6.8

Join our Director of Product, Mary Ellen Kelleher, as she shares the new features available with our 6.8 release. Included are our new Chicago Title and Zoom integrations, an updated AI view, updates to the Firm Insights report, and making our DocuSign integration easier than ever to use.

Save Time with Matter Templates in Smokeball

Join our Training Team Lead, Javier, as we look at how you can use Matter Templates to save time. Whether you have a repeat client or common customizations Matter Templates can help.

Utilizing Smokeball’s Forms and Templates Library

Learn how to best utilize and customize the Form & Templates Library with Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan. You will learn how to make shortcuts to Court & Authority forms, how to tell which are your firm forms or Smokeball forms, how to show which information in a document is pulled in from a field, and how to submit documents for Automation.

Family Law Tips and Tricks for Using Smokeball

Smokeball’s Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, will guide you through some matter configuration to help you with your Family law matters. We will also talk about how to best use matter tags, matter stages, and workflows to keep on top of your matters.

Using Smokeball’s Matter Stages and Tags

Learn how to categorize, sort, and track your matters. Our Training Team Lead, Javier, will walk you through how and why to use Matter Stages and Tags.

Using Smokeball to Efficiently Create Settlement Statements for Personal Injury Matters

Sara Sultan, Senior Trainer, will explain where the data is pulled from in Smokeball for the Settlement Statement, how to add custom items, change the default layout, and change wording on the Settlement document.

Automating Your Documents with Smokeball: Document Containers

Smokeball’s Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, will explain the backbone of Automation! You will learn how to access blank containers, some common uses for containers, and how to apply containers to a document template.

Automating Your Documents with Smokeball: Field Insertion

Prepare to learn all about fields with Sara Sultan, Smokeball Senior Trainer. You will learn how to locate the fields you want, which matters to use to access the fields you need, and how to format the fields you insert.

Automating Your Documents with Smokeball: Asks

Sometimes you need a field that is not on the matter in Smokeball. Sara Sultan, Senior Trainer at Smokeball, will show you how to create your own fields for use in your documents, best practices for your prompts, the different types of fields and what each does.

Usando Matter Templates para mejorar tu proceso de entrada de nuevo clientes

Aveces los Matter Types te ofrecen demasiados opciones para entrar detailes de el caso. Corta esa confusion con el entranador de clientes Roberto Martell Jr.. El te ensenara como usar Matter Templates para mejorar este elemento importante. El Webinar se presenta en Espanol.

Trust Tools in Smokeball Billing

Come learn about the tools within Smokeball Billing that will help you manage your trust account. Join our Legal Billing Specialist, Chad Holaway, as he goes through all the different trust transaction, setting up and printing trust checks, evergreen retainers, trust reconciliation, and trust reports in Smokeball billing.

Personalize Your View Settings in Smokeball

Personalize your view settings in Smokeball with Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan. Learn how to view only your matters, special groupings, and select columns. Explore how to change views in the Documents section of a matter and rearrange your widgets as well!

Smokeball Contact Clean-Up Do’s and Don’ts

Contact Clean-Up Do’s and Don’ts with Sara Sultan, Senior Trainer. Learn how to efficiently clean up your contacts, how it will effect your data, and what to look out for when using these methods.

Organizing Your Smokeball Forms & Templates Library

Join our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, as she helps to make the Forms & Templates Library look more like your old server. We will go over how to bulk import your templates and how to request automation right from the document. Sara will also explain best practices for when to copy vs. make a shortcut.

Usando Smokeball Communicate para mejorar la comunicacion con sus clientes

Conectase con el entrenador y licensiado Roberto Martell Jr. para informarse como utilizar Smokeball Communicate para mejorar comunicacion con sus clients y descubre como este aspecto de la plataforma puede agilizar el acceso a documentos importantes en sus casos.

Filing California Court Cases with InfoTrack

Join InfoTrack’s Karolina Sikorska for a presentation on California court filing, including a guided demo of how to place and expense court filing orders across jurisdictions using InfoTrack.

Streamline Your Billing Cycle

Join our Legal Billing Specialist, Chad Holaway, as he goes over the bulk actions you can take in Smokeball Billing to make your billing cycle as efficient as possible. Topics include draft bill creation, finalizing invoices with payments, and reminder statements.

New Feature Showcase

Join our Director of Product, Mary Ellen Kelleher, to get a walkthrough of our new functionality for split billing, invoice email templates, ability to quickly send a letter to multiple recipients, matter activity timeline, and customized invoice notes.

Secure Messaging and File Sharing with Smokeball’s Communicate

Our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, will provide a tutorial and best practices guide for using Communicate to securely message any contact on your matters, send a one-way SMS message, and share files securely.

Frequently Asked Questions: Matter Details & Contacts

Join Smokeball Trainer, Zac, as he guides you through the 15 questions most commonly asked about the Matter Details Section and Contacts.

Feature Spotlight: Lead Management

Join Smokeball Product Manager Ian Sperry, as he takes you through Smokeball’s new Lead Management features. Learn how to intake and organize prospective clients and convert them to paying clients in Smokeball.

Frequently Asked Questions: Tasks, Documents, Automation & Outlook

Join Smokeball’s Zac Meyer while he goes through another series of Frequently Asked Questions about Tasks, Documents, Automation, and Outlook in Smokeball.

Automating Your Documents with Smokeball: If/Then/Else Statements

Ready for some advanced Automation training? Join Smokeball Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, as she goes through the basics for if/then/else statements, explains what nested if/then/else statements are for, and how to use if/then/else statements in documents that include paragraph numbering.

Settlement Disbursement using Smokeball Billing

Want to learn how to track Settlement Disbursements through Smokeball Billing? Join Senior Trainer Sara Sultan as she answers that question as well as how to cut checks from Smokeball Billing for Disbursement and how to print reports showing how the Settlement was disbursed.

Using Smokeball Reports to Get a Better View of Your Firm

Join Client Trainer Roberto Martell Jr. as he hosts a webinar focused on the reporting available in Smokeball. He will guide you through the various reporting options in Smokeball.

Smokeball Billing Reports

Ever wondered how much each timekeeper is billing and collecting each month? How far behind are your clients in their payments? Who has money in Trust? Join Trainer Zac Meyer as he answers these questions and more on what you need to know about Smokeball Billing Reports.

Smokeball Integrations: LawToolBox

Having trouble keeping up with all of the Court Rules? Senior Trainer Sara Sultan will show you how the integration with LawToolBox can help alleviate the stress. You will learn how to activate the integration apply rule sets as all day calendar events or tasks.

Save Time with the Smokeball and Family Law Software Integration

Join Smokeball Client Trainer Roberto Martell Jr. as he shows off the integration between Smokeball and Family Law Software. Family Law Software can access matter information in Smokeball to populate calculations and reports, saving time and minimizing errors.

Smokeball Integrations: Quickbooks and LawPay

Join trainer Zac Meyer as we walk through the process to setting up these two key integrations and the benefits of using them in Smokeball Billing.

Smokeball Integrations: Lawmatics

Using Lawmatics? Senior Trainer Sara Sultan will show you how to utilize our integration with Lawmatics. You will learn how to set up the integration as well as what items will sync from Lawmatics to Smokeball.

Real Estate Tips and Tricks for Using Smokeball

Learn tips and tricks for Real Estate Residential Buy and Sell matters from our Client Trainer, Roberto Martell Jr. In this session you will learn best practices for tracking transaction details, securely sharing financial information with your clients, and utilizing automated title company forms.

Using Smokeball Closing Statements for Illinois Real Estate

Attention all Illinois Real Estate Attorneys… learn how to use the Closing Statement in Smokeball to save time! Senior Trainer Sara Sultan will show you how to customize the closing statement, how to create a template for a buyer’s side closing statement, and how to utilize our built in calculators.

Utilizar Los Detalles del Asunto de Lesiones Personales para Simplificar sus Declaraciones de Liquidación

Únase al entrenador de clientes Roberto Martell Jr. para un seminario web en el que aprenderá cómo usar Smokeball para simplificar la gestión de especialidades médicas y armar rápidamente declaraciones de liquidación para casos de lesiones personales.

Automated Email Templates in Smokeball

Tired of copying and pasting your frequently used text in emails? Join Trainer Roberto Martell Jr. as he guides you through using the forms and templates library to streamline your email template usage with Smokeball.

A Sneak Peek at the New Smokeball Home Dashboard

With Smokeball version 8.0, we are upgrading the Smokeball home screen with a powerful new home dashboard. Join us to get a sneak preview of the next generation of Smokeball!

Our Community and You!

Join Smokeball Trainer Roy Clifton as we explore our Community! A place for Smokeball users to connect, share ideas, learn and grow!

Save Time with Matter Templates in Smokeball

When you have multiple matters that require the same information every time, then Matter templates can help you. Join Client Trainer, Eric, as we look at how you can use Matter Templates to save time configuring your matters.

Spring Cleaning for the Forms and Templates Library

Get organized with our Senior Trainer, Sara Sultan, as she helps to make the Forms & Templates Library easier to navigate for your firm. We will go over best practices for when to copy vs. make a shortcut, how to create new folders and how to associate matters with Form and Template Library folders you make!

Frequently Asked Questions: Leads, Matters, and Facilitating Client Intake

Join Smokeball Trainer Roberto Martell Jr. as he guides you through the most frequently asked questions about Smokeball Lead Management features.

Curcio Law Offices

Smokeball acts as an unnamed paralegal, driving efficiency for this Chicago personal injury firm.

Gillespie Law Group

With Smokeball as her “second brain,” a busy family law firm owner doesn’t fear growing her practice.

Cervantes Chatt & Prince

Smokeball transformed a developing real estate firm into a coordinated, efficient practice with two locations.

Wechsler Becker

Smokeball paid for itself in two months through streamlined processes and enhanced invoicing, bringing peace of mind to a Seattle family law firm.

Murphy Legal

A 16-person, multi-office firm works like they’re all in the same office thanks to Smokeball.

Camino Law Firm

Smokeball helps a family law firm prioritize their clients and staff while doubling revenue.

Martinez Law Firm

Smokeball provides project and practice management for a Florida real estate firm now making more revenue than they ever thought possible.

Raxter Law

Smokeball’s efficiencies and automations saves a California probate firm 70 hours a week.

Generation Law

An estate planning firm secures their future with Smokeball

Bernicky Law Firm

A solo practitioner grows into an eight-person firm using Smokeball’s client communication and automation features.

Gort Law

Smokeball’s automatic time tracking solved a solo practitioner’s biggest roadblock.

Coogan Gallagher Law Firm

Coogan Gallagher founding partner Jim Coogan gets 2.5 more days out of his week with Smokeball.

Dodd and Wambold

A 40-year-old firm transforms from manual to automated, seeing 70% time-savings on billing alone.

Tracey Wood & Associates

With Smokeball, a revolving-door criminal defense firm retains legal assistants and grew its staff 30%.

Nick Davis Law Firm

Savvy paralegal, Tracy Sebesta, is 25% more productive in Smokeball

Pillsbury Law Firm

Smokeball is life-changing for Pillsbury Law Firm paralegal Tiffany Davenport

Law Office of Kenneth Stevan Bürgi

A veteran practitioner takes his firm to the next level with Smokeball, streamlining his systems and increasing billables.

Williams & Williams Attorneys at Law

With Smokeball case management, a family-run practice is poised for another century of success

Klose and Associates

A solo practitioner excels with Smokeball as an integral part of his firm.

Texas Trial Lawyers

Smokeball supported Texas Trial Lawyers’ rapid growth from 10 to 400 active matters in just five years.

Sarkisian Sarkisian & Associates

With Smokeball, Sarkisian Sarkisian stays connected — from anywhere.

Berg and Berg Law Firm

Smokeball gives Berg & Berg time to focus on their most important asset: their clients.

Tacoma Injury Law Group

With Smokeball, a personal injury firm accomplishes critical tasks in minutes — not days.

John Zachara

After signing with Smokeball, John Zachara's practice experienced one of its best years to date—and dramatically improved client response time.

Strohschein Law Group

Smokeball has helped Strohschein Law Group provide better client service and advance their practice into the next generation.

Stecklein & Rapp

A Kansas City consumer law firm completely revolutionized the way they practice with Smokeball.

Reagan, Melton & Delaney, L.L.P.

A family law firm uses Smokeball for truly seamless document automation, document management, and email management.

Boyd & Kummer

Smokeball seamlessly integrates with a litigation firm's daily workflow to save them countless hours.

Tharp & Associates

With help from Smokeball, a real estate attorney runs his firm flawlessly, without additional employees.

Marker & Crannell

Smokeball helps a personal injury firm deliver fast results and customized treatment to their clients.

The Law Offices of Lora Matthews Fausett

Smokeball allows the Law Offices of Lora Matthews Fausett to access their matters from anywhere and on a variety of devices, including tablets and smartphones.

Watson LLP

Documents that used to take Coleman Watson up to five hours to draft now take as little as ten minutes with Smokeball’s document automation tool.

Cottonwood Law Group

With Smokeball's automatic time tracking, a general practice captures 30% more staff time.

Letisha Luecking Orlet, PC

Smokeball has increased Letisha Luecking Orlet’s productivity, efficiency, and billable hours.