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4 Processes That Take Up Too Much Time at a Small Law Firm

Noel Peel

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Noel Peel

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September 10, 2020

A recent article published by Fast Company claimed that the average CEO wastes about 70 percent of his or her time at work on inefficient, time-sucking tasks. Lawyers and CEOs aren’t much different, and the processes that bog down one professional often affect the other. With the amount of work lawyers like you are constantly balancing, it’s important to streamline processes and workflows wherever possible.

Here are four processes that take up too much time at small law firms and what you can do to avoid them:

  • Emailing: Answering emails as they come in can help keep your inbox under control, but it can also limit your focus and prevent you from making progress on projects that require a more intense thought process. Instead of fielding emails one-by-one, block off time in the morning and late afternoon for responding to the non-urgent emails you couldn’t get to throughout your day. This will help you waste less time in your inbox and focus on more pressing client matters.
  • Filing: Organizing, searching for and sorting through your clients’ paper files can take up a significant portion of your day, especially if they’re managed by multiple people at your firm. Implementing a case management program like Smokeball that allows you to store and manage documents electronically will enable you to find documents quickly and limit the time wasted on organizing and sorting.
  • Meetings: Regardless of the industry, business meetings are often an inefficient use of time. To prevent them from bogging down your small firm, make sure you and your colleagues create a meeting agenda; come fully prepared to discuss those points and try to not deviate from it.
  • Document Creation: Oftentimes, law firm staff devotes hours per week writing and re-creating documents for their clients. With Smokeball, lawyers and legal staff can easily create specialized templates and auto-populate them with their client’s information, making document creation fast and easy.

Wasting more than half of your workday doesn’t have to be a reality for your small law firm! By streamlining processes and implementing helpful technologies like Smokeball, your firm can make the most of the hours they spend at the office.

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