Alex McLaughlin: Common Sense Legal Tech for Your Law Firm

Description

In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Alex McLaughlin discuss:

Legal tech at every law firm size.
Challenges lawyers are having with and without legal technology.
The evolution of the legal technology landscape.
Utilizing tech for a better work-life balance and to better serve clients.

Key Takeaways:

Find the right technology that works for you, customize it to your firm, and get the proper training so it can work for you and help, not hinder your day-to-day business.
If you have too many technology systems, it makes it more difficult to bring on new staff without long training times and frustration for both employer and employee.
Your mind and your focus are the best things you can give to your clients.
When you break out of a high-focus space, it can take up to 15 minutes to get back into that working space.

"If you don't have a system to store that data, reference it, and make use of it, that's how you get lost in a project - you miss a deadline, you blow a statute. That's where legal tech has stepped in and is helping to pull all of those loose threads together, tie them up, and allow you to have one place to look at your case." — Alex McLaughlin

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Episode References:

Book: A World Without Email by Cal Newport
Book: Getting Things Done by David Allen

About Alex McLaughlin: Alex McLaughlin is a Senior Director of Product at Filevine, innovating on the core features that make law firms more efficient and profitable. Alex has worked across a broad domain at Filevine from Document management to permissions and billing tools. He comes from a technical background working as an IT director for a plaintiff and Mass Tort practice and previously has worked on some of the largest cases in the country. He brings a unique blend of product management, technical knowledge, and industry expertise that allows Filevine to build for the future of legal tech.

Connect with Alex McLaughlin:

Website: https://www.filevine.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-mclaughlin-a6515318/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/filevine/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amclaughlin2005

Twitter: https://twitter.com/filevine

Connect with Steve Fretzin:

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Twitter: @stevefretzin

Instagram: @fretzinsteve

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Website: Fretzin.com