6 Key Reasons Why Law Firms are Switching to a VoIP Phone System

Lawyers know better than anyone that while presentation, preparation and strategy are important, ultimately the strength of a case – or conversely, the weakness – is about the facts.

With this in mind, below we present the fact-based reasons why a growing number of law firms are switching to a VoIP phone system:

1. Substantial Cost Savings: While each law firm is different, the cost savings can easily reach – and often exceed – 50 percent a year compared to a conventional landline phone system. This is because there are no expensive trunk lines to rent, no pricey maintenance packages to purchase, zero long distance fees, much lower costs for a toll-free or additional numbers (including across the state/out-of-state), and the list goes on.
   
   
2. Total Mobility: Lawyers no longer have to wait until they get back to the office to see if there’s a voicemail. With a VoIP phone system, they can have calls routed to their smartphone, or any landline – including a home phone.
   
3. Look Big – but Stay Lean: With features like auto-attendant to professionally greet and direct callers, toll-free numbers, unique extensions for various staff members and more, law firms with a VoIP phone system get to look like a big practice, but can stay lean and keep costs low.  
   
   
4. Video Conferencing: Meeting face-to-face with clients is important, but it’s often not practical, cost-effective, or logistically possible. However, with a VoIP phone system, lawyers can launch a video conference and connect with clients (or any other party) through the web.
   
   
5. Seamless Scaleability: Scaling up or down with a conventional phone system is tedious and costly. However, with a VoIP phone system, it is as simply as adding licenses or letting them expire. The process takes seconds, can be done online at any time, and is very cost-effective.
   
   
6. Disaster Recovery: During a power outage or natural disaster, law firms that use a conventional landline phone system may be cut off from their clients -- which can be alarming, and may even result in losing clients. However, a VoIP phone system uses a geographically dispersed cloud infrastructure. There is no single point of failure, which means that even in the event of a local power outage the system stays online, and lawyers and staff can access it via their smartphone, or from another location that isn’t affected by the power outage.

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