Will Outlook work as a stand alone program for a law firm?

[want2btrue]

I work in a small law firm and we use a rather expensive case load management
software specifically for lawyers. I am aware of a local, large law firm,
who claims to use only micrsoft outlook. Someone who once worked here and
now works there, said that our "fancy" management software is cumbersome,
slow, clunky, and not efficient. She said that their "fancy" firm only uses
Outlook and that it is ridiculously easy and efficient. Does anyone else
have any thoughts on this? It is time to upgrade our current system and it
is not cheap. If Outlook is more efficient, I'm curious to check it out for
my boss' review. Thanks. My email is (e-mail address removed).

 

[VanguardLH]

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I work in a small law firm and we use a rather expensive case load
management
software specifically for lawyers. I am aware of a local, large law
firm,
who claims to use only micrsoft outlook. Someone who once worked
here and
now works there, said that our "fancy" management software is
cumbersome,
slow, clunky, and not efficient. She said that their "fancy" firm
only uses
Outlook and that it is ridiculously easy and efficient. Does anyone
else
have any thoughts on this? It is time to upgrade our current system
and it
is not cheap. If Outlook is more efficient, I'm curious to check it
out for
my boss' review. Thanks. My email is (e-mail address removed).

You can download a trial version of Outlook. It is very likely that
you are using a contracted and/or custom-coded vertical application
with which no one here would have experience so they cannot provide
you with a comparison. You can check how Outlook works yourself.
However, they may be coordination features in your vertical program
that would require including the use of the Exchange mail server.

You might want to install it under a VM (VMWare Server and Virtual PC
are free) to prevent polluting your production environment(s) with
trialware.

 

[want2btrue]

Thank you so very much; this gives me a start.

However, I wasn't actually trying to compare Outlook features with our
current legal caseload management software. I was just wondering if a lot of
lawyers successfully use outlook by itself. That includes the integration
of calendaring, contacts, and correspondence. I've heard you can just click
the client contact, drag & drop it into the correspondence format, etc.
Thanks!!!
I really appreciate input in this matter.

 

[VanguardLH]

Thank you so very much; this gives me a start.

However, I wasn't actually trying to compare Outlook features with
our
current legal caseload management software. I was just wondering if
a lot of
lawyers successfully use outlook by itself. That includes the
integration
of calendaring, contacts, and correspondence. I've heard you can
just click
the client contact, drag & drop it into the correspondence format,
etc.
Thanks!!!
I really appreciate input in this matter.

You are asking the wrong group. Instead of asking a populace of
Outlook users as to how many of those are lawyers using Outlook, ask
in a law/legal group whose populace consists of [professed] lawyers to
find out from that community as to how many use Outlook.