3 areas to bring automation to your law firm
We’re hearing a lot about it these days. Law firms need to automate to stay competitive. But what should I automate? How do I automate? What do I need to know when automating? Automation is important because it has many benefits for your firm and staff. By automating the low value, boring and repetitive work, you can have your staff focus on the higher value work, such as making client contact.
Also, no one wants to do the boring stuff. But it has to get done. By automating the boring and repetitive tasks, your staff will be happier, have less burn out, and will be more likely to stay at your law firm.
Here are three areas you can bring automation into your law practice
1. Replace manual data entry
Manual data entry tasks are boring, mundane, and repetitive. They’re also high target areas where costly mistakes can be made. I still remember when a member of my staff mixed up the address of a deposition. He had entered it correctly into the notice to the client, but not in our calendar. I found myself having driven to the wrong side of Los Angeles before the mistake was realized and the deposition canceled.
If a more accurate machine can read and input data into my system or at least help enter data only once and have it go everywhere, instead of entering the data everywhere, it can significantly minimize mistakes.
It can also minimize the time and “brain-drain” my staff has to engage in when entering data manually.
2. Data Extraction
If I can use a machine to extract data from documents automatically, that can increase my staff’s accuracy and reduce their time. This saves money, time, and helps avoid potentially costly mistakes. A solution that automatically extracts data and helps you transfer that data to where you want can be a huge benefit.
3. Analytics
Analytic tools that help provide immediate and fast analysis and data can help law firms make better and quicker decisions. Rather than manual exporting custom fields to google sheets and attempting to make charts, having a solution that provides instant analysis can be very useful.
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