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Office 2007 is unlike any Microsoft upgrade since Windows 95 was released because the change is revolutionary -- not evolutionary. To determine if Office 2007 is right for your firm or department, we worked first-hand with several legal administrators and attorneys. Presented here are the top five compelling reasons your firm or department can benefit from Office 2007.

The 2008 Partners' Breakfast Roundtable, hosted by Rafte & Company, brought many interesting & pertinent topics. In April, Retaining Women in the Legal Profession, July tackled The Billable Hour, October was about Planning for Tomorrow discussing the issue of Client Succession, and December closed out the year with Getting Paid for Services Rendered. Due to Hurricane Ike we hosted our 1st Legal Technology Roundtable to discuss Preparing & Recovering from a hurricane.

Rafte & Company President Dena Rafte participated as a panelist in a terrific session entitled, "Understanding the Lawyer-Client Relationship" during ILTA ’07, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. This was an important conversation and Dena, who established Rafte & Company 24 years ago, said she was honored to be selected to participate. She says that creating a client-focused firm is essential for law firm success as more firms implement strategic ...

Without the understanding, support and active involvement of a strong legal administrator in helping drive change, initiatives designed to make it easy for clients to do business with a law firm frequently fail to live up to their potential. This is critically important today because forward-looking firms have realized that they need to constantly change and innovate to satisfy rapidly evolving client demands.

This article was originally published in the Houston Business Journal's February 10, 2006 print edition. Click here to view the published version. Legal case management software is a valuable tool that law firms use to manage legal cases efficiently. However, while the application provides attorneys with a convenient method of effectively managing client and case information, there is a clear disconnect in many law firms that occurs at the point of implementation. Data from the 2004-2005 ...

A feature article in the Dec. 23, 2005 edition of the Houston Business Journal examines Rafte & Company's expansion from providing legal technology consulting services to providing comprehensive legal business consulting services to help law firms grow in the midst of tough competition.

As Hurricane Rita threatens the Texas Coast, we're disappointed by the lack of coordination to help shape standards for future preparedness efforts. Hopefully professional services firms will benefit as other industies devise disaster recovery and business continuity standards to help companies gauge their preparedness.

When most computer users opened their e-mail application this morning, they had to wade through junk e-mail that was waiting to be sifted, sorted and deleted. To make the problem worse, they’ll probably have to do the same thing again tomorrow. Spending time wading through offers for mortgages, watches, drugs or computers.

Many law firms measure their fiscal success in billable hours. But when those billable hours are used for nonbillable tasks, the fiscal health of the firm suffers. That was the case with many of our legal clients when attorneys and staff at the firm were using valuable time sorting and sifting through spam. Houston-based Coats Rose Yale Ryman Lee decided it was time to address the issue and engaged Rafte & Company to assist. The volume of incoming mail was taxing the firm’s Novell GroupWise