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AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
AI Legal Case Management is a weekly podcast for solicitors, law firm owners, partners and practice managers in England and Wales. Every Thursday Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sits as a fee-paid county court judge, takes one problem that costs firms money or puts them at risk, from unbilled time and missed limitation dates to open undertakings, client complaints and fixed fees that run past their scope. Each episode sets out what the SRA Code of Conduct and the courts…
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AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AIThe fee earner who leaves with what the file never held: fee earner resignation and file handover
A senior associate in private client resigns on a Monday with three months' notice, and the first file on her list shows a meeting with the executors in her…
- AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
The fixed fee that ran past its scope: fixed fee scope and the SRA Transparency Rules
A purchase quoted at a fixed fee for a freehold house turns up an extension built in breach of a covenant, and fourteen hours go on a fee priced for six…
- AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
The client who went quiet and then complained: client complaints and the files that go quiet
The third email in seven weeks arrives from the executor of an estate that has waited fourteen weeks on a pension provider. The file is in order, every chase…
- AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
The undertaking still open on a closed file: solicitors' undertakings after completion
A letter arrives eighteen months after completion. The seller's mortgage is still on the register, the undertaking to redeem it sits in an email on a closed…
- AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
The file nobody has opened for a month: unless orders and relief from sanctions
An unless order arrives on a Monday morning, and the file behind it has not moved in seven weeks. Saqib Khan, who owned a law firm for fourteen years and sits…
- AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
The date that lived in one person's head: limitation dates and missed deadlines
A client rings to ask whether her claim has been issued, the solicitor running it is on leave, and the limitation date sits in pencil in a notebook in a desk…
- AI Legal Case Management: ten minutes on running a law firm with AI
The time your firm never billed: unrecorded time and lost billing
Every fee earner in your firm did something chargeable this morning that nobody will ever bill. A four minute call, an email answered on the train, a quick…