How a 12-person law firm cut admin time by 45% in three weeks
A boutique commercial law firm was drowning in manual document prep, client follow-ups, and billing reconciliation. Their fee earners were spending nearly two hours a day on tasks that had nothing to do with law.
The challenge
The firm had no dedicated operations staff and couldn't justify hiring one. Every admin task fell on the lawyers themselves — drafting routine correspondence, chasing invoice approvals, and manually updating their CRM after every client call.
What we did
We mapped their top five time-draining workflows and automated all of them within three weeks. Document templates were connected to their CRM so client letters generated themselves. A billing automation pulled data from their time-tracking tool and pushed draft invoices for one-click approval. Follow-up emails were triggered automatically based on case status.
Results
I genuinely didn't think it would work this fast. Within a month, my team stopped complaining about admin. That alone was worth it.
— Managing Partner