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Lawyers need to streamline their services. Lawgile is a tool that addresses this issue.

The world is changing at a fast pace. With the advances of technology, globalization, and a pandemic, there is a lot of uncertainty. This scenario is transforming the legal landscape. However, the way lawyers work hasn't adapted.

In his book “Tomorrow Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future” (2013), Professor Richard Susskind points out that clients want more results, whilst paying less. That means that lawyers need to become more efficient.

Lawgile is a Brazilian lawtech company that helps legal departments and Law Offices to overcome those challenges and become more customer centric with use of an Agile-based approach. Communication is crucial for law practice, but it can increase costs if not done correctly.  Lawgile conducted a survey with 170 lawyers about how they spend their time at work and found that around 50% of those surveyed spend 1 hour writing emails, 1 hour reading emails, and at least 2 hours on WhatsApp for work every day. Besides that, they spend around 1 hour on internal meetings every week. That means around 21 hours a week just spent on communication. Besides being time-consuming, this process is costly and takes away focus and concentration on what really matters: delivering value to clients. That happens because the team and managers have low visibility of the work of their peers.

Besides that, lawyers are still facing other challenges like:

●       When they need an update on a case, they have to contact the lawyers working on that case, through email, phone, or meetings.

●       Lawyers that still manage their day-to-day activities and deadlines through physical notebooks, which leads to a lack of transparency, and collaboration.

●       Decentralized communication makes it hard to find important information.

Lawgile proposes a shift in the way lawyers work, the use of Agile Methodologies. These methodologies revolutionized software, marketing, financing, among other industries. We can adapt the same principles to the legal industry, making law firms more efficient and effective. This project based approach is a good fit for law firms, because every case is different. Agile encourages teams to think about what they did well and what could have been better, to improve continuously.

Through a Kanban board in the Lawgile app, each member of the team has visibility of what others are doing, decreasing the need for calls and emails to check in on the work of others. Kanban is a visual tool and provides a high-level overview of all the cases that allow team members to think more strategically. By clicking on a card, all the detailed information and documents can be found.

Looking at the Kanban board, everyone knows what the priorities are, and is encouraged to offer help if a colleague is struggling to meet a deadline. Lawgile also centers all communication, documents and steps of a case, so lawyers don’t need to waste time searching for those details.

Lawgile creates metrics that give insight into productivity for each lawyer, possible bottlenecks in the work process, and how much each client demands from the team. Each team has specific needs, so the board and metrics are customizable.

Many companies are already thriving by using Lawgile to change the way they work. For example, the Brazilian law firm Hernandez & Balozzi adopted Lawgile and Agile methodologies. This decision attracted more clients, interested in innovative practices. Lawyers reported that with the help of Lawgile they feel less anxious about work, because they are sure they are not missing any deadlines and that the visibility of the work encourages them to not leave tasks to the last minute. They also use Lawgile metrics to understand how much they need to charge each customer.

Another case of success is Urbano Vitalino Advogados. They substituted a shared calendar by Lawgile and saw their revenue increase 35% in six months. Using the platform the team collaborates more, there is less need to send emails, and the work becomes more efficient.

Lawgile is changing the way lawyers work and collaborate. With a simple and visual platform that allows the team to focus on what generates value to customers and feel more relaxed.

The best way to understand Lawgile is trying it with your team. Register it here for a 30 day trial, with full access to all functionalities. Change the way you work and become more efficient.