7 reasons why law firms are implementing automation in their law firms
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.
1. Save Time
A big reason to bring automation into your law firm is to save time. There may be some initial time investment up front to learn the software solution, but once implemented, if it can save hours per day, it’s a great time investment. Ultimately the more time you save, the more money you save.
2. Save Money
Speaking of money, by saving time you save money. You have lower expenses engaging because a machine is doing the work your staff used to do. Additionally, you save money by not having to go back and fix mistakes. If a machine can do something more accurately and faster, it’s a mistake not to be using it.
3. Lower Turnover of Staff
One of the biggest reasons for employees leaving are feeling burnt out or not doing purposeful work. One of the biggest burnouts is doing boring, repetitive and mundane work. By automating the boring stuff, your staff can focus on higher value work. Thus, they are less likely to quit.
4. Better Client Experience
With more time and resources freed up, you and your staff can focus on servicing the clients. They can make that one extra call per day, have a little more confidence they can deliver for the client, and will have more energy to do the higher value work.
5. Less Error
Data entry mistakes are one of the biggest areas of human error in a law firm. By automating this process as much as possible, your firm will have less mistakes that can be costly and need to be cleaned up later.
6. Greater Efficiency
If it takes an employee to produce 1 unit of output for 1 hour of work by working manually, but they can produce 3 units of output for 1 hour of work with the help of an automation tool, it becomes a no-brainer to get that automation tool working with your system.
7. Scale Faster
The ability of a firm to grow and scale is directly correlated with their ability to handle the incoming number of cases. By having automation tools that help service the cases, the firm can handle more cases. Even better, they can grow without the need to hire extra staff.