How often do you change your phone? Do you only change it when it’s damaged? And when you get a new phone, do you buy a phone with the same specifications or u upscale?

The answers are obvious. The intention here is not to discuss a phone but to use the example to draw attention to your law firm’s technical infrastructure which is also important.

Using just a time-sheet is like using a basic phone used to make calls and messages. But guess what, you can do a lot better than that. In fact, up-scaling is can get your work done a lot easier. In legal industry and legal-tech, it can save you as the CTC of a handful of employees and optimize the productivity. For the practitioners, it is equally important to update the way they manage their firm and their schedule as that of their knowledge. Lawyers who use management tools and calendars are undoubtedly taking an edge over the traditional diary users. To further stand out of the rest, those who are using exclusive practice automation tool is moving two steps further.

It has been noticed that the law practitioners, using automation solution are ready to pay a price for the solution with regular updates and feature adds, as the premium paid is fractional compared to the returns. Also unlike your phone, here update do not cost.
Having said it all, I would like you to mention some of the areas of your firm management that can be automated:

• Business Development
• Task Management
• Invoicing
• Expense Management
• Knowledge Management
• Analytics
• HRMS

The scope of up-scaling is a lot, but with the currently available technology in the market, if your practice management tool provides you efficiency in the mentioned fields, you may not have any problem in your practice.