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Essential Strategies for Transparent Legal Time Tracking and Client Communication

Rocket Matter

In short, you need it to maintain a positive client relationship. Here are six strategies to keep your time-tracking client-centered. 1. But these (excellent) reasons aren’t the only reasons to time track. If attorneys use the same time entry labels for tasks, it will be clearer to clients.

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Jacqueline Schafer on Writing Briefs at the Speed of AI: How ClearBrief is Transforming Legal Drafting

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

By leveraging AI to handle tedious tasks like cite-checking, lawyers can focus their time on high-value analysis and strategy. So but I hear we have another Schwartz. I was living in Seattle at the time, and I was working on my first pro bono asylum case. Like we’re I love the strategy. And he believed my client. And we won.

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Thoughts on Promises and Challenges of AI in Legal after Yesterday’s AI Summit at Harvard Law School

Above the Law - Technology

Even though the themes generally tracked those I’ve already seen raised in other forums and articles, the insights that came out of the summit were enlightening and thought-provoking, especially given the bona fides of those who were there. And speak frankly they did.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . Most states implement rule changes in batches, two or four times per year. The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. Causes of Missed Deadlines.

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The Rising Cost of Legal Services: Insights from 10 Years of Data from CounselLink’s Kristina Satkunas

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

There are seven as the title would imply, there are seven key metrics that we track every year. So there are seven seven metrics that we have consistently tracked over those years so that we can track the trends of them. And I think we’re seeing or hearing about both of those things today. Greg Lambert 3:58 Yeah.

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A Look at Client-Side AI-Powered Legal Spend Analytics Tools

Ron Friedmann

From both what I read in mainstream media and experiences I regularly hear from friends, neither doctors nor patients have benefited from that disruption.] Prior to his arrival, there was not a single system to track legal spend. Brad focused on freeing up lawyers to spend more time on strategy and innovation for the company.

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How to Stop ‘Rough-Drafting’ and Learn to Speak with Precision During Presentations

Attorney at Work

” When you hear yourself starting sentences over, help yourself bring that sentence to an end by doing three things. We often listen to lawyers who speak so fast that they cannot monitor their speech in real-time. End sentences decisively , so listeners hear that the end is approaching. You should hear silence.

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