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Law firms: problems we solve

28 problems law firms bring us, each with the cause, what it costs and what we build to fix it.

Law firms problems

28 articles

Why Does Every Conflict Check at Our Firm Mean Emailing the Whole Office?

Law firms

Law firm conflict checks that rely on an all-staff email and a name search miss things. How we build a searchable conflict check that keeps your sign-off.

How Do We Stop Fee Earners Reconstructing Their Time Every Friday Afternoon?

Law firms

Fee earners who record time from memory at the end of the week lose chargeable work. How we build time capture for law firms from emails, calls and documents.

Why Are We Still Chasing Clients for Passport Photos Before We Can Start Work?

Law firms

Chasing clients for ID and address documents stalls new matters. How we automate law firm client ID check requests, reminders and the record on the file.

Why Does Every Hearing Bundle Mean a Paralegal Renumbering PDFs at Midnight?

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Court bundles built by hand mean late nights, broken page numbers and index errors. How we automate law firm bundle preparation from your document system.

How Do We Know When a Matter Is About to Go Over the Fee Estimate We Gave?

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Fee estimates get exceeded because nobody compares WIP to the estimate until billing. How we build costs estimate alerts and client updates for law firms.

Why Do New Client Enquiries Bounce Between Departments Before Anyone Calls Back?

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Law firm enquiries sent to a general inbox get passed between teams and go cold. How we route enquiries by practice area and track every callback.

Why Does Every Client Care Letter Start From Someone Else's Old Letter?

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Client care letters copied from old matters carry the wrong names, fees and terms. How we build a law firm engagement letter generator from your own templates.

How Do We Stop Missing Dates From Directions Orders That Someone Typed Into Outlook?

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Directions orders get read and their dates typed into diaries by hand. How we extract law firm court deadlines into your system with a second-person check.

Why Do We Have Hundreds of Finished Matters Still Showing as Open?

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Finished matters stay open because file closure has too many small steps. How we automate law firm file closing, balance checks, letters and archive dates.

Can We Stop Relying on a Spreadsheet to Track Undertakings Given by Our Staff?

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Undertakings tracked in a spreadsheet get missed when a fee earner forgets to log one. How we build a law firm undertakings register tied to each matter.

How Much Are We Paying Out on Clients' Behalf That Never Makes It Onto a Bill?

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Court fees, search fees and counsel's fees paid on office account get missed at billing. How we build law firm disbursement tracking that reaches every bill.

Why Does So Much Recorded Time Sit Unbilled Until Someone Chases It?

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Recorded time sits as WIP for months because billing depends on fee earners remembering. How we build law firm billing prompts, draft bills and lock-up views.

How Do We Work Through Years of Small Balances Left on Client Account?

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Small residual balances on client account build up on old matters. How we help law firm accounts teams trace, contact and track residual balances to a close.

How Do We Stop Clients Ringing Fee Earners Just to Ask What Is Happening?

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Clients ring fee earners for updates because they cannot see progress. How we build law firm matter update messages and a client view from your own records.

Why Do Fee Earners Keep Using an Old Version of Our Standard Documents?

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Precedents saved on desktops and old matters mean out-of-date drafting gets reused. How we build a law firm precedent bank with versions, owners and search.

Why Is Half the Correspondence on Our Files Still Sitting in Fee Earners' Inboxes?

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When emails stay in personal inboxes, law firm matter files are incomplete. How we build email filing that suggests the matter and files with one click.

How Do We Find an Original Will in Our Strongroom Quickly and Know Who Has Taken It Out?

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Original wills and deeds tracked on cards or an old spreadsheet are hard to find. How we build a law firm deeds register with barcodes, movements and search.

How Do We Keep Track of What We Have Sent to Counsel and What We Owe Chambers?

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Instructions to counsel and chambers' fee notes get lost across inboxes. How we build law firm tracking for briefs, deadlines, fees agreed and fee notes.

How Do We Run File Reviews That Actually Find the Problems on Our Matters?

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File reviews by random sample and paper checklists miss risky matters. How we build law firm file review selection, checklists and follow-up tracking.

How Do We Hand Over a Leaving Fee Earner's Caseload Without Anything Being Dropped?

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When a fee earner leaves, dozens of matters need moving with dates, undertakings and emails. How we build a law firm caseload handover pack from your data.

How Do We Keep Track of Client Complaints So None of Them Runs Past Our Own Deadlines?

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Complaints logged in a spreadsheet slip past the firm's own response deadlines. How we build a law firm complaints log with dates, owners and a full record.

Which Accountants, Agents and Former Clients Actually Send Us Work?

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Law firms rarely know which referrers send the most work because the source is never recorded. How we build referral tracking from enquiry to fees billed.

How Do We Keep Track of Every Bank and Pension Letter on an Estate Administration?

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Estate administration means dozens of letters to banks, pensions and insurers, and chasing replies. How we build probate asset tracking for law firms.

How Do We Stop Paralegals Spending Weeks Listing a Client's Documents for Disclosure?

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Building a disclosure list means listing, dating and de-duplicating thousands of documents. How we automate the mechanical part for law firm litigation teams.

Why Are Fee Earners Starting Work Before the Client Has Paid Money on Account?

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Requests for money on account are sent late and chased by hand, so work starts unfunded. How we build law firm payment requests, links and reminders.

Why Are Letters Waiting Days in the Typing Queue Before They Go Out?

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Dictation queues leave letters waiting while secretaries type from scratch. How we build law firm transcription drafts that secretaries check and format.

How Do We Know if an Existing Client Has Been Added to a Sanctions List Since We Took Them On?

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Clients screened once at onboarding are rarely rechecked when sanctions lists change. How we build law firm sanctions rescreening with a review queue.

Why Do Our Client Questionnaires Always Come Back With Half the Answers Missing?

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Word and PDF questionnaires for wills, family and employment matters come back incomplete. How we build law firm online forms that ask only what applies.