3 WAYS TO ELEVATE YOUR LAW FIRM

Attorneys, lawyers, paralegals, law firms, how do you distinguish yourselves from the law office across the hall, down the street or on the other side of town?

Of course, it starts with providing excellent service and delivering results for your clients. Besides talent, experience, skill, passion and other internal resources, tools are another lever to even the odds and further enhance your firm. Technology is a powerful tool that can really assist legal professionals and ultimately help their clientele.

So without further ado, here are 3 ways to elevate your law firm:

1. Streamline Research

Due diligence is paramount to ensure the success of a case, and it all starts with solid preparation. The more time that can be saved during the research process can allow legal teams to prepare arguments, double-check work, implement additional case research which all helps to increase the chances of a positive result for customers. Plus, the extra time saved by expediting the research process can allow lawyers to focus on other highly-billable activities.

There are now robust platforms that can intuitively narrow down your search topics, offer legal suggestions, fast track case searches, filter specific criteria, automate annotation and sidebar tasks and even flag keycite overruling risks.

There are a few solutions in the market that can offer some of these features and the industry leading platform is Westlaw Edge . An up-to-date and organized collection of case-law, statutes, rules and regulations with quick verification on whether a case/legislation is good law. See what you can do with Westlaw Edge - YouTube

2. Standardize Precedents

Many experienced lawyers will have years, even decades of documents that can be used for their precedents but they may not be completely current and up-to-date. Using tools that offer templates, how-to legal guides and detailed checklists that are all curated by professional lawyer teams will help to standardize your precedents while accelerating the drafting process.

This type of solution is like having an extremely experienced lawyer down the hall at your disposal anytime and can be delivered by platforms like Practical Law . Expert legal content with time-saving templates, how-to guidance and legal checklists to accelerate the drafting process. How to Use Practical Law - YouTube

3. Utilize a CRM

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools are no longer just for sales organizations, the medical and legal industries are now using CRM's to keep track of their customers and all their key details. CRM's are key for housing all your client profiles, their contact information, products and services they've purchased and the history of communication with them. In addition, CRM's are great for creating tasks and automating workflows so that an inquiry or even a follow up is never missed. As well, robust CRM solutions can create a comfortable two-way street of correspondence and offer a better customer experience.

A great solution for achieving this elevated experience with clients that has been developed exclusively for legal professionals is with High Q . Connect your legal professionals and clients using an intelligent solution that improves client satisfaction, increases profitability, and leverages unmatched expertise: High Q

Bonus time! A fourth way to elevate your firm is make sure that your website is on point. Ensure that the lawyers, practice areas and support team are all up to date and consider including biographies of all your staff as well. Beyond that, sharing case studies, your community involvement, charity work and any special initiatives along with having a slick looking website that is clear, concise and above all, user friendly, will improve online engagement with your firm.

Hopefully these takeaways can further elevate your firm... For more ideas and strategies that could potentially benefit your legal practice, please feel free to reach out directly!

Daniel Joseph - [email protected]

ABOUT THE WRITER... Daniel is an eighteen year sales professional, professional actor, filmmaker, Hip Hop Artist, Public Speaker and Published Author with two books, "Me, My Dreams And I" and "Wise Words From A Father" , along with several published magazine article features.