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How legal automation helps lawyers

By The Colleges of Law
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Technology is constantly evolving, making it challenging for professionals to keep up with trends and necessary advancements. The legal system is not immune to this issue, as lawyers need to continuously develop and evolve their reasoning and approach to problems to align with modern solutions.

Including modern technology in the legal field could improve many of its systems, especially in the way cases are handled. As a result, tech companies have begun introducing an array of innovations that can improve legal practice and help lawyers provide better, more efficient services to their clients. These innovations are known as legal automation

Legal automation is a software category that automates the management, creation, and approval of legal cases by streamlining legal processes and augmenting lawyer productivity. It involves a range of templates for documents lawyers use as they conduct their practice.

Legal document automation is designed to allow lawyers to speed up their workflows, spend less time on repetitive cycles, and gather information more efficiently by using the software to generate templates. Solutions such as this can be compared to an accountant using an accelerated version of Microsoft Excel to work out their sums as opposed to using a pen and paper to do math.

In law, lawyers and firms often need to process and create a variety of forms for each client, many of which use repetitive language. The legal document automation software presents questionnaires to lawyers and uses the information to build the forms and complex documents that they require for workflows, all while protecting sensitive client information. This way, a legal practitioner can build documents and case files within shorter periods of time.

The legal document automation software does not require any special coding skills—every lawyer can use it with ease.

Legal process automation uses AI and robotics to assist in performing the process of data collection and the mundane tasks involved in case compilation necessary to a legal process. Specifically, it aids law firms in compiling larger data with more efficiency and greater accuracy than humans can attain.

The main advantages of using legal process automation are:

  • More time and resources available to other tasks and client communications
  • Completing large case files more quickly
  • Increasing profitability of lawyers and firms

A legal workflow, like any other workflow, is simply the processes by which a legal case or data passes through from its initiation to its completion. Legal workflow automation, including document and process automation, is an innovation that automates all processes of a legal case. These technological advancements solve issues in delayed processes, number of errors, and efficiency of legal practitioners.

The advantages of adopting automated legal workflow are countless. By embracing machine learning, firms will achieve exceptional legal practice and proficient services.

At The Colleges of Law, we merge the old with the new to build the next generation of excellent legal practitioners. Our graduates are prepared to practice in the modern world—embracing technology and increasing efficiency, productivity, and quality of service to the ever-increasing pool of legal clientele.

For more insight into technological solutions in the field of law, read our article on “What is legal tech?”

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