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Affinity Consulting Group is an alliance representing the pinnacle of law office technology and practice consulting services for small and mid-sized law firms. Affinity is comprised of five of North America's leading independent consulting firms - Automated Horizons, Best Law Firm Solutions, HMU Consulting, InTouch Legal and Legal-Tech Solutions, Inc.

Today, Affinity consultants are nationally recognized and considered leaders in the field of law office technology and automation. Our team brings clients depth of experience and expertise resulting from a combined client base of several thousand law offices. Learn more about Affinity here...

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Recent Affinty Consulting Articles

  • LexisNexis Announces Maintenance Plan Requirement
    Users of the LexisNexis products PCLaw™ and Time Matters® and Billing Matters®  may have recently heard that LexisNexis is requiring customers to purchase or reinstate their Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP) by May 1, 2010. While news of additional software costs can sometimes be alarming, it’s important to remember that purchasing...
  • Word 2007 Tip: Simultaneously Viewing Multiple Parts of Your Document
    Sometimes it is helpful to view two different parts of your document at the same time.  In Word 2007, there are two ways to do this.  (1) Split Screen. The first way is to use the split screen view.  The split screen view “splits” the screen in two, and presents two...
  • External battery for your 3-cell netbook
    If you messed up and bought a netbook with the low-capacity 3-cell battery and are now stuck with just three hours of battery life instead of 6, 7, or even 9 hours you could have gotten from the optional 6-cell battery, all is not lost.  Starting Sunday, Feb. 7, Staples...
  • Free Webinar: Mindmapping for the Law Office: February 26, 2010, 1 p.m. EST
    Free Webinar February 26, 2010, 1 p.m. EST What is a mindmap? A mindmap is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mindmapping has been used for decades for task management, project management...
  • Why online backups are not enough
    Online data backups such as Mozy, Carbonite, IDrive, Amazon S3 and others provide excellent protection for your data.  We use Amazon S3 ourselves.  But, as this time, we still strongly recommend an on-site backup as the primary backup method and online backup only as a secondary solution.  Case in point,...
  • LexisNexis and Microsoft Cut Deal for MS Office Integration
    The ABA Journal reports that LexisNexis and Microsoft reached an agreement to integrate Lexis legal research in to Microsoft Office 2007 and the soon-to-be-released Office 2010.  According to the ABA article: Lexis will now be integrated into Microsoft Office products, allowing users to do legal and general research directly while working...
  • Affinity Gives Back – Columbus Office Works With Legal Aid
    On January 26th, Affinity Consulting’s Columbus office partnered with The Legal Aid Society of Columbus to offer a day-long free Microsoft Word training for 21 Legal Aid professionals. Lawyers use Word for the bulk of their daily work load – recent developments in this software enable more efficient means to...
  • End of an Era – Palm OS Devices Discontinued
    If you are like me, your first experience with a truly useful handheld PDA or smart phone was a Palm device.  That device ran the Palm operating system.  From the original PalmPilot to the Treo Pro, the Palm OS was simple and intuitive.  More importantly for lawyers, Palm OS devices...
  • 1099 Filings Due on 1/31
    If you haven’t submitted your 1099’s yet, consider using FILETAXES.COM. File Taxes is an easy to use, web based interface where the service will electronically file your 1099’s and your 1096 form for you and confirm everything by email. I’ve been using this service for over 7 years....
  • New IRS Mileage Rate is $.50 per mile for 2010
    In case you missed the early December official announcement, the 2010 IRS business mileage rate is reduced to 50 cents per mile to reflect lower transportation costs – mostly a drop in gas prices from 2009.  You may need to manually change this rate in your time/billing/accounting software.  If you...

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PCLaw - Front Office
February 11, 2010 (10:00 AM)

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February 11, 2010 (3:00 PM)

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February 16, 2010 (1:00 PM)

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February 18, 2010 (1:00 PM)

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