Clio 4 Key Programming
Latarsha Dorrance
Take the example of David, who became a lawyer after a career as a high school physics teacher. When he first became a lawyer, his background in science and technology was apparent in how he was drawn to looking at case files and data from a different perspective.
David also shared a story about how a former student of his used basic programming skills to make it easier for his firm to deal with data. David had recently taught the student how to take multiple spreadsheets and bring them together into a big table based on common columns.
Computer science courses that are designed specifically for lawyers can help funnel the broad range of programming skills into those that are most directly relevant to practicing law. Choose a route that accommodates your interest, time, and availability. Here are a few ideas:
Take a course at your local university. Check out your local college or university to see if they offer a coding for lawyers course. Some of these courses might also be offered online, as well.
If you want to start by building your legal technology knowledge base, these webinars on the topics of understanding legal tech competence, how to embrace technology for long-term success at your firm, and how to use automation to increase efficiency at your firm are good starting points.
We're the world's leading provider of cloud-based legal software. With Clio's low-barrier and affordable solutions, lawyers can manage and grow their firms more effectively, more profitably, and with better client experiences. We're redefining how lawyers manage their firms by equipping them with essential tools to run their firms securely from any device, anywhere.
By attending conference sessions in person, lawyers can earn these important credits while deriving significant value from the conference programming. Presentations that are eligible are noted with an asterisk (*) on the online agenda and are subject to approval from bar associations and law societies across the United States and Canada.
A marriage of Clio explorer and clio cli offers extended capabilities for working with Creatio. The Clio explorer makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy Creatio applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click operations with environment package schemas.
This is an essay about hospitality and the ways we must question frameworks telling us to welcome the queer in educational contexts. I will show how educational scholarship as well as programming for schools, teachers and students have emphasized the interconnected concepts of hospitality and welcome as a way of keeping queer bodies legislatively, physically and psychically safe. While acknowledging the importance of hospitality as a starting point, I examine its limits with the hope of showing how it might foreclose curiosity. I argue that one fundamental problem with hospitality and welcome toward the queer is the way these phenomena can disembody individual and mutual existence. My goal is not primarily to critique extant efforts at queering education but rather to offer an alternate vision of the relationship between queerness and education that takes the body seriously. An aspect of my aim is indeed to provoke; while I understand that an embodied vision for education is unlikely to come to fruition with any alacrity, I wonder if urging queer educational discourse and even programming in this direction might create new possibilities for mutual coexistence and discovery.
Clio Stearns is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of New Hampshire. She is working on a dissertation about social and emotional learning. Her research interests include psychoanalysis and childhood studies. A graduate of Bank Street's Childhood Education and Literacy program, she has published previous work in Curriculum Inquiry, Democracy and Education, and Pedagogy, Society and Culture.
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If you know anything about passive programming, you know it includes fun programs for people of all ages! Paula Willey and Andria L. Amaral, authors of The Passive Programming Playbook: 101 Ways to Get Library Customers Off the Sidelines (Libraries Unlimited), offer this off-the-shelf program to get you started. Simply read, download, or print the instructions. Then download and print the animal images and facts for immediate use in your library.
Penn is an active member of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council. The Council is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and recognize purchasing leadership that accelerates the transition to a prosperous and sustainable future.
A comprehensive review and bidding process gives Penn insight into which suppliers best match University requirements, including sustainability goals. The Penn Managed Print Services (MPS) Program has contracted four suppliers to provide print equipment, supplies, service, and associated MPS software tools to Penn customers. Through these partnerships, we can help Penn customers significantly reduce office printing costs and gain control of their printer fleet.
Laboratory needs are well considered by Penn Procurement Services. With access to vendors who focus on reusing or refurbishing equipment and with recycling programs and other services and programs like Green Labs, Penn is helping to reduce operational costs and promote sustainability.
From April 20 - 26, the campus community continued an annual tradition of celebrating Earth Week at Penn, with Penn Sustainability again serving as a hub of programming and promotion. Inspired by the Earth Week at Penn 2024 theme of Restore & Regenerate, student clubs, academic departments, staff offices, and school green teams organized over 40 events championing environmental causes and advancing climate action.
In over a year developing Apollo, Clio spent more than 600 hours and 60 days visiting law firms, consulting with clients, conducting user testing, and monitoring feedback from customer surveys and interactions. It encompasses a new design, faster performance and some 220 feature improvements.
Clio has also created a new version of its API (application programming interface) that will allow it to better connect its ecosystem of integration partners, and it has launched a new App Directory to make it easier for its customers to find integrations appropriate to their practice.
For now, Clio subscribers have the option of toggling between the legacy and Apollo versions of the software via a toggle switch in the navigation bar. Eventually, that toggle switch will disappear and all users will default to the new version.
One notable improvement in Apollo is global navigation. The navigation panel now sits on the left of the screen, instead of the top as before, where you can access tasks with a single click. The panel is collapsible to give you more screen real estate.
Another time-saving feature of the new design is global create. Wherever you are in the application, the Create New button is available at the top right of the screen. Click it to quickly add a new matter, contact, task, time entry, expense entry or just about anything else that can be done within Clio.
Timekeeping has been enhanced by allowing users to start the timer with a single click, without having to enter any matter details. Also, a new Timekeeper button, accessible from anywhere in the application, allows you to quickly see and edit all your time entries and totals for the day (or you can toggle back through prior days). Click any entry to start a new timer for same matter.
A new Activities page shows all your activities in a data table. Columns in the table can be resized, hidden and added to create the view you like. Activity can be filtered by date ranges, keywords, matter, firm user, and other fields.
The Matters page now also displays as a data table with configurable and collapsible columns. The Create New Matter page has been condensed so that all fields fit within a single page. The top of the page is where you enter standard information about the case. Expandable sections farther down on the page let you add billing preferences, custom fields, automated tasks, and related contacts.
A key differentiator of Clio over other practice management platforms is its integrations with third-party applications that extend its capabilities. At its September conference, Clio announced 12 new integration partners, bringing the total to more than 70. It also launched a new App Directory to make it easier for users to find applications that match their practice needs.
These integrations cover a range of categories, from accounting and client intake, to e-discovery and legal research, to timekeeping and workforce management. Note, however, that most of these third-party integrations require their own subscriptions, in addition to the Clio subscription.
In addition to Apollo, Clio is working to finish another development project, which it calls Hermes, and which will be a secure, mobile-optimized communication platform for lawyers and their clients. Think of it as a legal-specific variation on communication applications such as WhatsApp or Slack.
The application will enable lawyers to securely message with colleagues and clients, initiate secure video chats, exchange documents, and more, from mobile or desktop. Clio was demonstrating a prototype version at its conference in September but had not announced a final release date.
Most lawyers would want at least the Boutique plan, which includes integrated credit card processing, accounting integrations, and Office 365 Business & Enterprise integration. The Elite plan adds court-rules calendaring and other features.
Bob Ambrogi is a lawyer and journalist who has been writing and speaking about legal technology and innovation for more than two decades. He writes the award-winning blogLawSites, is a columnist for Above theLaw, hosts the podcast about legal innovation, LawNext, and hosts the weekly legal tech journalists' roundtable,Legaltech Week.