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Create a master list: Check your calendar. Next, group like tasks together: Phone calls to make, emails to write, documents to draft, errands that will take you away from your desk, and so on. Are there emails you can draft? First step? Write down upcoming meetings, deadlines and other commitments. Assets you can gather?
While the term “virtual” law firm may sound like everyone works 100% remotely, it’s not about where you are working. It’s about how you work together and how you deliver your legal services. Is everyone consistently using online calendaring tools? Draft New Office Policies.
Many paralegals have now migrated to the work-from-home status permanently or part-time. Many paralegals have also experienced “burnout” due to the pressures of the times while lacking some tools to sustain productivity and efficiency in our newly set up home offices. Billable Hour Boot Camp.
For instance, when you’re juggling multiple cases and deadlines, you can create a task for drafting a motion, assign it to a paralegal, and set a deadline. This integration also works in reverse, so events added to your external calendars will appear in your mobile practice management software.
Dennis Kennedy and I also use Teams to facilitate our podcast and bookwriting efforts, and we used Teams to write the latest edition of our book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies, WorkfromHome Edition.” DS : I rarely use collaborative tools for significant draftingwork.
Dealing with The New Stressors of Remote Work. While remote work has removed some serious stressors, such as long commutes, it has also added some new ones to the mix. For example, when workingfromhome, legal practitioners might struggle to separate their work lives from their home lives.
Scanning – Use scanning apps like Abby Fine Scanner, Adobe Scan, Apple Notes, and Evernote Scannable to create a PDF from your smartphone. Scheduling – Use the scheduling features of Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar to arrange meetings, assign office space, or book conference rooms.
For instance, there are no commutes, no traffic, very little waiting, and if a client misses an appointment, it doesn’t take much to close our calendar and get back to work. Beyond those, I do have a few tools that I absolutely love and make any attorney’s life easier, especially a virtual attorney: Calendaring Software .
Everyone gives a different explanation—ranging from the pre-recorded phone greetings you hear when you call your pharmacy to the remote worker drafting your Facebook posts to the work-from-home paralegal who onboards newly retained clients. Calendaring. Inbox and calendar management. Inbox management.
Invest in universal access If we’re honest, the ability to workfrom anywhere plays a significant role in many attorneys’ decisions to open a solo firm. While cloud-based computing programs like Outlook and Google Drive make workingfromhome or the beach easier for everyone, they aren’t designed for law firms.
For the documents and spreadsheets that accompany any project, invite your team to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Sharepoint to work on documents simultaneously and securely. You’ll find this to be much easier than printing, red-lining, and repeating on every draft. How to get it going. How to get it going.
But, they may be able to work remotely at various times around those responsibilities. An estate lawyer, on the other hand, will typically have fewer in-person commitments and may be able to workfromhome much more often. In fact, there are many benefits to lawyers working remotely. Calendaring.
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