If you look at the diagram I published at the start of this series, there’s a box on the left that isn’t technology at all. Your triage and risk rules. Your playbooks by matter type. Your precedents and knowledge
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Maximising AI Potential: The Importance of Information Architecture
Try this now, before you read any further. Open Copilot and ask it something like: “What is the current status of the [X] matter, and what are the top outstanding issues?” Use a real matter. Something live, that you’d struggle
One front door: legal intake and the matter register
Ask an in-house legal team how work reaches them, and the honest answer is usually: however the person felt like asking. An email to whoever they dealt with last time. A Teams message. Someone stopping a lawyer in the corridor.
You probably don't need a whole new legal operations platform
Here’s a test you can run in the next thirty seconds. Open Microsoft Copilot and ask it for the current status and top outstanding issues on a matter you’re working on right now. Then look carefully at what comes back
Should Your Law Firm Build Its Own AI?
I know a lot of law firms are starting to worry that they might be falling behind on AI and thinking they need to rush now to embed it throughout their practice.
Superlegal AI Law Firm: Rethinking Construction Contract Reviews
Quick Wins for Legal Teams – Self Service
I’m a big believer in walking before you run. The posts I have done most recently have all been about laying the foundations to accelerate from a good, stable base.Now that it is time to go faster, the next quick
Quick Wins for Legal Teams: Implementing Structured Digital Intake
In earlier posts, we’ve looked at setting up a more stable, scalable, and flexible SharePoint structure, implementing a tool to enable email and document management within SharePoint, and setting up a Microsoft Power App for Matter Management to
Streamline Legal Management with a Microsoft Power App
Now that you have your document and email management sorted, with a clear, well-structured SharePoint environment to work with, that will be what most individual lawyers need to get on with their work more effectively. There’s often not actually
Quick Wins to Streamline Document and Email Management in SharePoint
If you’ve been following my earlier posts from the past few days, you’ve got approval from key stakeholders, such as your IT and finance teams, to progress a few things that will make the most of your existing Microsoft