October 2013 Arizona Attorney Magazine coverIf your office is anything like ours, you’re deep into planning for 2014. Budgets, tools, hardware, software, goals, strategy: All of these and more are up for consideration.

That’s one of the reasons we dedicate a lot of our October issue pages to practice management software. That tool—what we call PMS—truly has become the engine that drives law practice.

It was the cover story in the October Arizona Attorney Magazine. You can start reading here.

If you’re busy, you may want to jump to what we fondly call The Big List. That’s where the rubber hits the road, software-wise.

Our coverage written by Susan Traylor also should be on your must-read list. And I would add to that a useful FAQ over at The Lawyerist. Here, Sam Glover answers some of your compelling PMS questions in a concise blog post.

What is working in your office? Have you gone to the cloud and are loving it? Or has it been more nightmarish than that?

Write to me at arizona.attorney@azbar.org.