How to Automate Personal Injury Law Cases
You can make your personal injury law firm more efficient with AI.
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.
As the legal field continues to embrace artificial intelligence, we see how the technology is useful in different branches of law. From immigration to bankruptcy, AI is helping automate the monotonous work that legal teams had to complete before. The same goes for personal injury law.
Learn more about how personal injury law firms can automate tasks and run a more efficient organization.
4 Benefits of Automation for Personal Injury Firms
There are several ways your law firm can benefit from automation, including:
1. Standardized Processes
Using AI tools means that the programs will follow a set of steps in the same way every single time. As humans, we might try to take shortcuts or forget one steps and have to come back to it. But AI tools can ensure that you are doing the same thing, every time.
2. Saves Time
Automation tools can take over and complete timely tasks much more quickly than humans. This means you can move through cases at a faster pace, without sacrificing accuracy.
3. Saves Money
Similarly, you can save money. For example, if you’re a fledgling firm that is not ready to hire full-time help, AI might be able to fill some of these gaps until that time comes.
4. Notifications
AI can send automatic notifications when there’s any change in a case. This means that every party is aware of each update and knows what they must do to keep the case moving along.
6 Ways to Automate Personal Injury Cases
It can take a long time to reach a judgement in a personal injury case, but it doesn’t mean that it should be an uphill batte to get to that point. Here are just a few ways that AI can automate your workflows.
1. Case Initiation
When you start working with a client, AI can help initiate the case. For example, if you decide to represent someone, you can send them a contract. Once they sign it, AI can ask for their information or specific documents so you can make progress on the case without needing to message clients.
2. Booking Meetings
If you need to meet in person with clients, you can let AI handle it. Instead of working with your team to figure out your schedule, an automated tool with access to your calendar can give clients your availability.
3. PDF Fill
Automated tools can also fill out PDFs. It can take information and transfer it over to the correct box on a form. This can reduce errors as well as manual labor.
4. Document Management
AI can sort, retrieve and even file documents for you. This can keep you organized as you work on a case with your clients and your team. Even the most diligent teams might make mistakes or have inconsistencies that can make it difficult to find a file when you need it. AI can help minimize those moments.
5. Settlement Calculations
Looking at each individual case and different factors that can influence the outcome, AI can also calculate settlements.
6. Review
When you stare at something for too long, it’s hard to see it clearly. For example, if you misspelled the name “Brian” as “Brain,” you might not catch it. But AI can review your work and catch mistakes that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Are AI and Automation Right for Your Personal Injury Firm?
The beauty about AI is that you can make it work for you. You can implement the tools and features you think are most beneficial for your firm. There are also a few things you can do to guarantee that you continue to provide top-notch service, including:
- Double-check your work.
- Review your systems regularly.
- Clearly delineate how your firm will use AI tools.
- Train your team members.