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Inbox Intuition: Do You Need to Draft Your Own Emails Anymore?

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  Artificial intelligence is invading your email inbox, in the same way that it’s marauding against the rest of your life .   And so, you’re making the decision – actively, every day: Do I give in, or try to hold out?     In some cases, it’s certainly worth it to hold out .   In others, it may be worthwhile to just surrender to the flow.     One of those latter cases may just well be sitting inside your email inbox.     Lawyers are buried in emails, generally .   I know, because t hey all complain about it to me – usually via email !   And yeah , I get it: samesies .     But, if there’s one thing that AI is good at, it is writing almost like us .   So, if you feel like you’re buried in email messages (I know you do), you can deploy artificial intelligence tools to draft email responses for you .   Not necessarily to send – you can ( and, probably should ) revise the final...

Let the Games Begin: Competition Among Team Members Is Healthy

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If there’s one thing that humanity has taught us, from gladiatorial contests to Beast Games, it’s that homo sapiens love to compete against each other.     Competition can be a healthy way for people to work out their drive to succeed – and, modern competition is much safer than, say: smashing someone in the face with a mace.     As a law firm owner, you can access the best of what gladiatorial co mbat had to offer, without all that messy bloodshed.     When you set KPIs for your law firm, you can filter those in a number of ways.  You can establish firmwide KPIs, or you can focus those KPIs on groups or individuals within the firm.     That’s how you unlock competition, when you get groups or individuals competing against each other, to hit the best numbers.     No swords, no sandals.     Gamification works in side of law firms, too.     Plus, the best part is that, since everyone is still on the same t...