Of course, then there were only a handful of contenders, all with basically the same features. So it was easy to put them side by side and decide, with a reasonable degree of certainty, which was best. Its Practice and Office Management category yields another 32. Corporate counsel and specific practice areas have other products.
Truth be told, anybody can make a case management program.
Just create some kind of useful database with legal-specific fields, give it a catchy name and slap a price tag on it. They may be adequate products, but often not much thought or planning is put into how to support, expand and market them. One or two of those might make a top-10 list one day, but most will languish forever in a handful of offices or even disappear completely. The successful, market-leading case management providers generally started out the same way but have taken a far more professional approach to developing, expanding, marketing and supporting their products as comprehensive solutions for different practice types and styles. Case management software should be the central hub of your law office technology system.