The ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center has posted a great and comprehensive article about Software-as-a-Service and web based practice management for law firms.  It is a great article for any firm considering a move to legal SaaS.  A brief snippet from their introduction:

…there are a number of drawbacks to traditional legal software: substantial up front licensing costs, hardware upgrades, steep learning curves, high training costs, and the need for expensive consultants or IT staff to install, configure, and maintain the software. Recently, however, a new alternative has begun to surface that may offer many of the productivity and efficiency benefits of traditional legal software with fewer (or at least, different) drawbacks: Software as a Service (”SaaS”).

Follow this link to read FYI: Software as a Service (SaaS) for Lawyers.