“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” When Billy Ocean put a label on that in 1985, the U.S. was on the edge of a technology revolution. After more than two decades of technology growth, that song might go like this: “When the going gets tough, the tough get technology.”

It’s no secret that technology is a good investment in lean economic times. Software can help keep a company or law practice in the black and enable them to hit the ground running when the economy grows fat. For a lawyer, that means investing in practice management software to manage clients, log time entries, track matters and tasks, and create and distribute bills as well as calendaring and trust accounting.