Continuing Education of the Bar Offers Integration of Essential Forms with Smokeball's Case Management Software

Partnership enables small law firms to seamlessly create California Judicial Council forms and save them directly to one centralized, cloud-based legal software interface

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Mar 15, 2018, 10:00 ET

OAKLAND, Calif. and CHICAGO, March 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), California's leading law publisher and continuing legal education provider, announced today a partnership with Smokeball, a leader in cloud-based case management software, to integrate its Essential Forms product and expand Smokeball's suite of practice management tools.

Starting today, attorneys who choose to integrate the two applications will be able to create and edit Essential Forms and save them directly to Smokeball's case management software. Essential Forms, a flagship software product of CEB, enables legal professionals to easily and efficiently complete, print, and save over thousands of California Judicial Council Forms. It features shrink-to-fit fonts, custom form groups, custom fields, and a database that auto-populates new forms with shared data. With Essential Forms' e-Filing capability, attorneys can send documents directly and securely from their computers to the courthouse.

"CEB was founded to help California attorneys succeed in the practice of law by providing them with the information and tools most relevant to their area of practice, and we believe this combination of Essential Forms with Smokeball offers attorneys an extremely powerful productivity tool," said Kelly Lake, chief executive officer and executive director of CEB. "By listening to our customers who talk about the demands of modern practice, we are finding new ways to integrate our content with software that can save attorneys valuable time and allow them to focus on serving their clients."

This two-way product integration will enable the auto-population of California Judicial Council Forms with matter information already entered in Smokeball's software, and completed forms will be linked to the relevant case for easy retrieval and organization. Access to Essential Forms' Judicial Council Forms and all firm documentation is available using Smokeball's centralized interface, which can be shared with other attorneys and legal professionals to improve collaboration.

"Smokeball's primary goal is to increase the productivity and profitability of small law firms, and we see this partnership with CEB's Essential Forms product as a perfect fit," said Jane Oxley, president of Smokeball. "By integrating our powerful case management software with Essential Forms' trusted library of Judicial Council Forms, California firms now have a truly integrated case management software that powers productivity, organization and profitability like never before. We're excited to continue leading small law firms into the future with the best legal technology and tools available."

The complete Judicial Council Forms library will be accessible from the Matter Details page in Smokeball. Attorneys can easily search the library by form name or form number, then select any California Judicial Council form with the click of a button. All matter information will be automatically populated in seconds and law firms can file with confidence knowing the forms are always up-to-date and court approved. To learn more visit www.smokeball.com/essential-forms/.

About Continuing Education of the Bar
Continuing Education of the Bar is the premier source of California legal research, guidance, and continuing education for all California lawyers, from solo practitioners to AmLAW 100 firms. Its print and digital resources, including OnLaw®, are renowned for their authoritative content and feature expert step-by-step guidance from experienced California lawyers and judges. CEB was founded in 1947, as a program of the University of California and is the state's first CLE provider. Find more information about how CEB makes legal research as efficient and accurate as possible, visit http://www.ceb.com.

About Smokeball
Smokeball is the first and only complete cloud-based legal practice management software that automatically records time and activity for you. Whether you bill hourly, fixed fee, or on contingency, Smokeball provides you the insights you need to run a more productive, organized and profitable law firm. Plus, with over 14,000 automated forms, industry-leading integrations and a dedicated account management team, managing your law firm has never been easier. For more information about Smokeball, visit https://www.smokeball.com/.

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