How Law Firms Can Cut Legal Research Time Without Compromising Accuracy
Introduction Legal research occupies a central place in good legal practice, and for many law firms, it has also long been one of the major time-consuming activities. There are just more case law to dig through, changing statutes to worry about, and increasingly demanding client expectations to live up to. Partners and associates are investing many hours jumping between databases, fine-tuning their queries, verifying their cites, and authenticating their precedents. While accuracy is still important, the emphasis to improve speed is making a big issue clear: how do you accelerate research efforts without compromising its quality? This isn’t simply an issue with “day-to-day” operations, but a competitive one as well. If a company relies upon outdated research procedures, as is often seen with manual research, it is a threat because it can lead to inefficiency, cost, and time associated with delivering research, as well as a race to deliver research that can prevent spotting major cases ...
