How AI Can Solve Immigration Lawyers’ Biggest Challenges

The Modern Law Firm series delves into how AI can streamline your law firm — whether it’s by saving you time and money, eliminating mistakes and redundancies or making your workflow more efficient. 

The work of an immigration lawyer can be very rewarding—helping people navigate a complicated system can make you feel proud of the work you do. But at the same time, the system presents many challenges like time-consuming processes and staying organized. And that’s not even getting into the changes to immigration law that can upend cases.

While artificial intelligence cannot help lawyers on that front, it can help make their jobs simpler. Read on to learn how AI can tackle some of the biggest challenges that immigration lawyers face. 

5 Challenges that AI Can Solve for Immigration Lawyers

Artificial intelligence can help you create a more robust workflow and save lawyers, paralegals and other team members precious time. But it doesn’t stop at just that. 

Long Work Hours

Lawyers can have long work hours—especially if they’re juggling several cases at once. AI tools can free up some of your time by helping with client onboarding, customer support and workflow automation. At Noodle, for example, clients are automatically walked through each step of their case eliminating time spent on admin-related back-and-forth communication.

Errors

Errors can lead to serious consequences, like having to start the process over (which is time-consuming) or a case denial. AI can analyze forms and highlight missing or erroneous information and communicate that to the client with minimal input from your end.

Organization

Remaining organized can prove difficult. One small deviation from your normal routine can snowball into chaos. If you struggle with disorganization, AI can help keep you on task. Noodle, for example, provides a daily brief that gives you an overview of your firm's performance and upcoming tasks for the day.

Flexibility

Your clients may not always be available during work hours. Therefore being flexible is important. AI can help keep the momentum going even after you have signed off—and no, you don’t need to return to your computer to help clients. With Noodle, AI can leave them a list of tasks they need to complete. They can also receive 24 hour customer service via a chatbot trained on your unique business.

Client Relationships

Your clients may feel anxious as you work on their cases. To help give them peace of mind, you need to be extra communicative. But this can be difficult for you and your team to accomplish as you juggle many tasks. This is the perfect place for AI to step in.

An AI-powered CRM can engage your clients via email or text at just the right time to ensure they feel you're on top of their case.