The Process Street

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Having an operations manual may not be glamorous, but preventing the disasters caused by human error and bad processes can save your business and even (in extreme circumstances) millions of lives. In this Process Street article, we’ll be covering: What is an operations manual? How to create an operations manual.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From court filings to client communications, every aspect of a law firm’s operations must run like a well-oiled machine. While these off-the-shelf solutions may work for some industries, they frequently struggle to meet the unique demands and nuances of a law firm’s operations.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By leveraging legal workflow automation to optimize operations, law offices can unlock a host of benefits that enhance efficiency, accuracy, collaboration, and overall success. The problem is that many of these tasks require a lot of collaboration and manual sequential steps.

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CARET Legal

MAY 1, 2024

Smarter Case Reviews Traditionally, case reviews have been a tedious process, with legal professionals having to manually go through a multitude of documents to extract relevant information. AI is changing this scenario, providing a more efficient and effective way of conducting case reviews.

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Lawyers have harnessed technology to do tasks faster than they manually did before and to use modern platforms to market themselves. They have not, as a whole, even increased their hours of operation to the public, as has the conservative banking industry. Manufacturers always have a manual of practical information.

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CARET Legal

MAY 8, 2024

Keep your whole firm optimized with legal document management software Billing and Invoicing The billing and invoicing process is often manual, requiring lawyers to calculate billable hours and create invoices themselves. Repetitive Tasks Repetitive tasks, such as data entry and creating standard legal documents, are often done manually.

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Rocket Matter

AUGUST 15, 2023

And if you overstate your expenses, even by accident, you open yourself up to an IRS audit—which nobody has time for. Expense tracking used to be a manual task for businesses. On your quest for the right payment processor, look for features that streamline and support the way law firms operate. Maybe it’s running reports.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2022

From 1819 to 1969, the US operated Native American boarding schools across 37 states. The schools operated under a joint goal of cultural assimilation and territorial dispossession of Indigenous peoples by forced relocation. Native American children who resisted these methodologies suffered punishment, including corporal punishment.

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CARET Legal

MAY 3, 2024

Outdated law firm operations are causing firms to lose the top-tier talent they’ve invested significant time and resources in training. By using templates and auto-fill features, these systems can populate documents with relevant information, reducing manual data entry and the risk of errors. Ready to take the first step?

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The Process Street

MARCH 25, 2023

Gerber uses the franchise model to demonstrate how a business does this: Franchises are prototype businesses that are operated in terms of well-documented systems , i.e., there are manuals describing in minute detail how to run the business. This is why systemizing your business makes even more sense today than it did back in 1986.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Traditional law firm operations — processing paper invoices, sending and collecting paper checks, and handling billing data manually — can at best cause bottlenecks and at worst, result in delayed cash flow. Using invoice templates for common cases can greatly reduce manual work and increase staff efficiency.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But that’s just one small example of the hours of forgiven revenue that come with manual time-tracking, hurting your firm and your attorneys. High overhead Imagine: When keeping time the manual way, when a lawyer opens a client email, they have to jot that down. Yes, this is the worst-case scenario, but it isn’t far-fetched.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

The Department of Justice alleged that Boeing did not adequately communicate essential details of MCAS’ operation to the AEG and failed to include such information in airplane manuals and pilot-training materials.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 24, 2024

Industry-leading law firm technology also includes other tools such as document management systems, a secure email client, and accounting software, offering a comprehensive solution for managing a law firm’s operations. This reduces manual labor and human errors, resulting in a significant increase in efficiency and accuracy.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

The Public Notice reminds broadcasters to check all their EAS operations at their facilities before the upcoming test. Stations should be checking their EAS encoders and decoders now to be sure that all is working properly to transmit and receive this test.

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InHouseOps

MAY 24, 2023

There are also broader recommendations such as using OGCs and an instruction manual, not an engagement agreement, which are very different documents. The engagement letter outlines the terms associated with representing the Company (i.e. accruals, budgets),” Hansen says.

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Knackly

MARCH 27, 2023

Document automation is a revolutionary concept that has changed the way businesses, governments, and organizations operate. As a result, document automation can save time, money, and effort by reducing manual labor associated with document preparation and editing while ensuring data capture accuracy.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 2, 2023

From Automated Processes to AI-powered Change for the Legal Sector Past attempts to automate the processing of large amounts of legal data or lessen the impact of a heavy manual workload have been limited. However, manual labor is both time consuming and resource intensive. Fortunately, modern technology has risen to the challenge.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 8, 2021

General counsel is largely operating in a solo capacity, with the goal of gaining transparency into spend. E-billing and spend management software are essential tools for meeting today’s growing pressures to cut costs and operate more efficiently by making data actionable. Effectively Managing Operations (Stage Three).

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 12, 2024

Manual invoicing and those dreaded end-of-month billing processes can make accounts receivable a drag, though. Your invoicing process will operate on autopilot while you focus your precious time on what matters most: your clients. Start accepting payments online!

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2021

Apple will match content against an unreadable database of known CSAM image hashes provided by child safety organizations that will be stored in the operating system of users’ devices. Where a match is found, a cryptographic safety voucher encoding the match will be uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image.

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The Process Street

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

They can help you save time by eliminating a lot of the repetitive manual tasks that are part of your core workflows and business processes. Benefits of using webhooks to automate recurring work If you’re looking for ways to improve your business operations, automation is a powerful tool that can have a big impact.

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Cenza

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This is clear evidence of how AI application in legal operations can benefit a legal team and the organization. It should ideally be easy to use, requiring little effort to learn its features and operations. As they automate most of the manual, time-intensive tasks, much productive time is saved for strategic priorities.

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Rocket Matter

MAY 9, 2023

And when it’s all done manually, there’s a lot of room for error. Download free guide Higher productivity Creating and sending invoices, receiving and entering payments, and making deposits manually is an incredibly time-consuming process. Automating your invoices reduces the margins for error, though.

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Rocket Matter

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On your quest for the right payment processor, look for features that streamline and support the way law firms operate. When you use many separate online payment processors, they don’t “talk” to each other, leading you to have to manually track down and add up invoices and payments. Start accepting payments online! Non-compliance.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 7, 2021

Legal operations has existed for longer than one might think. Technology wasn’t prevalent, so the job was primarily focused on making sure the day-to-day operations of the legal organization ran efficiently. In this series of three articles, we will explore the importance and immediacy of understanding your legal operations.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 22, 2021

If law firm attorneys and staff hate manual time tracking – and, honestly, how could they not? The passive timekeeper feature available in Smokeball works for internal Smokeball operations, as well as with integrated software, like Microsoft 365. All such captured time is pending until the user manually finalizes it.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Commingling client funds with the firm’s operation account, failure to maintain three-way reconciliation and poor record-keeping, in general, are the most common mistakes lawyers make. Structuring their retainers so fees are deposited directly into their operating accounts simplifies their financial management obligations.

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The Process Street

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mistakes like will happen if you don’t have pre-established customer success operations to act as a form of process control. Make customer success operations your top priority by building and optimizing repeatable processes. Why you need to start thinking about your customer success operations. Let’s begin!

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The Process Street

APRIL 17, 2023

A kinder view is that it’s just how info security operates (there’s no one-size-fits-all fix). Similarly, workflow automation software like Process Street can help you lower operational costs by streamlining tasks like security and performance reviews into handy, simple checklists that can be used as evidence in a SOC 2 audit.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 13, 2023

With automation, your software completes these tasks for you (without pulling you away from any of your high-value work). Legal practice automation, specifically, is part of legal practice management software , which helps law firms operate their business more efficiently.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Manual Docketing . Many firms use docketing software to save time and promote team collaboration, but some old-school firms still use a manual docketing process. This involves calculating deadlines manually and scheduling them on a digital or paper calendar. . Unfortunately, manual docketing is clunky and time-consuming.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

FDA’s view is stated in the agency’s Investigation Operations Manual, and it is one with which a number of practitioners disagree. Walsh — The question of whether FDA has authority to take pictures during an inspection of a facility has bounced around the food and drug bar for many years.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 11, 2021

Our third and final installment in the maturity model series tackles the future of legal operations. In our first piece we introduced the maturity model concept , defining the five distinct operational levels that legal departments may achieve as they strive to meet the needs of their organizations. The future is data.

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Cenza

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Gone are the hesitant moves towards digitizing CLM operations. Remote Access: Organizations that have always been on the cusp of digitizing their legal operations have taken the plunge to adopt CLM software swiftly – owing to the pandemic. As legal contracts have several reasons to be mired in disagreements and litigation.

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The Process Street

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While thousands of restaurants are using BentoBox to power their digital experience for customers, including websites, online ordering, gift cards and more, BentoBox uses Process Street for key processes like customer onboarding and employee onboarding to smoothly scale their operations. Using Process Street to scale business operations.

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InHouseBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

With survey responses from 252 in-house counsel and legal operations professionals across 22 countries, this report presents the types of legal technology organizations are using and their perceived effectiveness, purchasing behavior, and top technology challenges. Key Takeaway #5: The top challenge is software interoperability.

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