Five Ways for Legal Professionals to Boost Productivity: Tip #5

Our fifth and final installment on how you can improve your productivity in the industrious law firm or legal department environment is:

Leverage Technology

download ebookIndeed, a great way to boost productivity is to make use of legal software tools and technology solutions. Take a look around your firm. Are people handling tedious administrative or business tasks? If so, those are ripe opportunities to leverage technology and automate those tasks thereby saving time and money. Indeed, a great way to boost productivity is to make use of legal software tools and technology solutions. Take a look around your firm. Are people handling tedious administrative or business tasks? If so, those are ripe opportunities to leverage technology and automate those tasks thereby saving time and money.

Consider this sage advice: perhaps the most productive thing you can do, if nothing else, is to eliminate non-value add “filler” tasks that don’t contribute to driving results. Audit your to-do list or take an inventory of your daily habits and routine to discern whether or not you’re focused on the right things. If you’re saying, “but it’s my job to do some of these things” then your goal might be to reduce them or better manage them by scheduling these tasks during a time that you typically experience a productivity lull, say 3 o’clock in the afternoon…

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