4 AI-Powered Hacks to Maximize Law Firm Productivity

4 AI-Powered Hacks to Maximize Law Firm Productivity

10.21.2024

By Sammi Jones

Whether your firm is looking to automate routine tasks or streamline traditionally time-intensive operations, AI empowers legal professionals to reclaim time and focus on higher-value activities, like delivering outstanding outcomes for clients.

Below are four AI-powered strategies that help law firms overcome common challenges and boost efficiency.

Challenge 1: Sifting Through Lengthy Documents

Are you spending hours scouring lengthy legal documents for must-know points? You’re not alone. Lawyers often spend excessive amounts of time locating specific information within extensive legal documents.

AI Hack 1

Leverage legal AI tools that streamline document reviews and generate must-know summaries of case facts. For law firms that are eager to reduce manual document management efforts, look for AI software that delivers precise and concise document summaries quickly.

Software to Leverage

MyCase IQ’s Document Summaries feature scans legal documents to quickly identify and summarize key points, allowing lawyers to spend more time with their clients.

Legalyze.ai generates document summaries from PDFs and other file types, and its AI-assisted analysis works alongside legal teams to answer questions about case documents. Plus, the software integrates with MyCase so firms can sync documents in seconds.

Benefits

• Enhances document management and your search process
• Passes cost savings onto clients
• Ensures your firm stays competitive

Challenge 2: Proofreading & Editing Copy

Prescribe or proscribe? Ensure or insure? The point is moot…or is it mute? For lawyers,  accurate written communications are vital to maintaining a professional, reputable firm and ensuring cases run through the system smoothly and without delay or loss of credibility with the courts. However, editing legal documents can steal time away from more meaningful work, like winning cases for clients.

AI Hack 2

Take your written words to peak precision with legal AI software that summarizes text, suggests edits, translates copy, and strengthens your writing.

Software to Leverage

MyCase IQ Text Editing aids in refining legal documents and helps teams quickly detect and fix grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, adjust tone of voice, and tailor messages to recipients.

Bonus tip: Look for a tool that uses advanced language processing algorithms to ensure your text meets high legal writing standards. MyCase IQ Text Editing also checks this box.

Benefits

• Streamlines your editing
• Ensures client communications are clear and free of legal jargon
• Frees up more time to invest in high-value work

Challenge 3: Translating Text Into Different Languages

For firms working with international clients, good communication—in any language—is key to encouraging a collaborative relationship and keeping clients satisfied. However, language barriers can be roadblocks to productivity and serving clients effectively.

AI Hack 3

Use AI to facilitate seamless communication with clients in their preferred language. The right AI technology helps firms remove language barriers to ensure clear communications with clients. Look for software that can easily translate messages, text messages, and task descriptions from English.

Software to Leverage

MyCase IQ Intelligent Translations makes it a breeze for lawyers and teams to connect with clients in their preferred language. The tool communicates from English to multiple other languages (and vice versa), and users simply write a message, and it’s instantly translated.

Benefits

• Provides real-time translations across multiple languages
• Enhances the client experience with seamless communications
• Reduces translator costs

Challenge 4: Drafting Discovery Requests & Responses

Is your team constantly crafting discovery responses? Are you spending more time reading discovery requests than you are on optimizing the client experience? A workload full of repetitive, tedious discovery tasks isn’t the best way to optimize your productivity.

AI Hack 4

Use AI to automate the preparation of discovery requests and response documents. Brief drafting and analysis AI tools assist with the drafting of legal documents by improving writing and suggesting edits. Look for a tool that can create first drafts of documentation such as demand letters or discovery demands.

Software to Leverage

Briefpoint automates repetitive aspects of drafting legal documents—particularly discovery documents—to expedite the process and improve efficiency. The platform can suggest and write tailored content, and it includes features designed to improve productivity.

Benefits

• Reduces drafting time to save hours
• Eliminates repetitive work and boosts firm efficiency
• Reduces chances for errors and missed court filing by optimizing organization

Transform Your Practice With MyCase

Ready to move beyond task-based lawyering to focus on strategic success? With trusted AI solutions built seamlessly into MyCase to meet your specific needs, your firm can maximize every minute to spend time on what matters most: your clients. Request a free 10-day trial of MyCase today.