12 Ways LexWorkplace Will Help Your Firm Do More With Less

In our experience, law firms of all sizes have the same challenges with managing documents and email.

Which of these sound familliar?

If so, you should really take a look at LexWorkplace.

This innovative new document management platform has taken the legal industry by storm and is gaining recognition for its advanced features and functionalities.

In this article, we’ll dive into 12 ways LexWorkplace will help your firm do more with less. From secure external sharing to favorite and recent documents at your fingertips, you’ll quickly see how this platform will change the way you work.

Let’s get started.

1. Search and Find The Documents You Need

Manually searching for the document or email you need is a huge pain.  What’s more, most basic filesystems allow you to search by file name only.  Not very useful.

LexWorkplace is like having Google Search for your firm’s documents, data and email.  With LexWorkplace’s full-text search, you can search within the content of every document in the system, in seconds.  You can search by:

2. Save Emails to Matters (Where Your Team Can Access Them)

You may have a perfectly organized Outlook inbox, organized by client and matter… but that’s not very useful for the rest of your firm.

With LexWorkplace you can easily save client or case-related emails to the appropriate matter, right from Outlook. The benefits of this approach include:

3. Code and Categorize Documents

LexWorkplace allows you to categorize and code documents by optionally assigning various properties, such as type, status, and multiple tags, to each document. This provides a clear understanding of the context and purpose of each document, making it easier to identify which documents you need to work on next.

Coding key documents in this way also makes it possible to search and filter documents by any of these properties, allowing you to find what you need quickly.  In this way, LexWorkplace helps you stay organized and saves you time, freeing you up to focus on more important tasks and move your matter forward.

4. Securely Share Documents

LexWorkplace makes sharing documents with clients and outside parties easy and secure. You can share a document (or multiple folders with many documents) with an outside party in just a few clicks. You can always see what was sent, when, and by who… as well as whether or not your recipient has downloaded the document(s).

This is a much better method of sharing files that old-fashioned email attachments, because:

5. Work the Same Way on Windows or Mac

The big problem with most document management products is that they only work on Windows computers… yet more and more law firms use Mac computers in the office (or at a minimum from home).

The long-standing work-around to this for Mac users is to run Windows on a virtual machine using Parallels, involving a full installation of Windows on their Mac computer. This is often slow, clunky, and expensive, making it difficult to use the software effectively.

By contrast, all components of LexWorkplace, including add-ins, work natively on Macs, no Parallels or other clunky work-arounds required.  With LexWorkplace, law firms can work with their preferred computer platform, without sacrificing the tools they need to manage their cases efficiently.

6. Seamless Practice Management Integration

Law firms often struggle with managing multiple software platforms for different aspects of their practice, such as practice management, document management, and more. The process of switching between systems, inputting the same data in multiple places, and juggling multiple logins can be time-consuming and frustrating.

LexWorkplace solves this problem with its Clio Manage integration. This integration allows you to pull and link matters from Clio Manage to LexWorkplace in just a few clicks, eliminating the need for duplicate data entry and maintaining a link between the same matter in each application.

7. Automatic Versioning

If you’re like a lot of legal professionals, you manually maintain versions of documents by performing a Save-As, then name the document “Document – V2,” , “-V3”, and so on.

This is very manual, error-prone and leaves your folders a cluttered mess.

With LexWorkplace, a new version of each document is created every time a document is changed, automating this process for you while avoiding duplicate copies of the same document in your folder view.

This automated version management also includes:

8. Matter Docs and Firm Docs in the Same System

Another recurring problem we see plaguing law firms is:  Different kinds of data and documents in different systems.  For instance:  Maybe you keep your client/matter documents in your practice management software, but keep internal firm documents in a cloud storage app like Dropbox or OneDrive.

Not with LexWorkplace.  Our software includes a space called Firm Documents, where you can store business documents, internal information, HR files, financial files, marketing and more–anything not related to a client or matter.

9. Favorite and Recent Documents at Your Fingertips

When working on a particular case or project, do you often find yourself in and out of the same handful of documents many, many times?

LexWorkplace keeps relevant and recent documents just a click away, no matter where you are in the software.

10. Meet Compliance Requirements

LexWorkplace is the data security and compliance easy-button, with these features built-in:

11. Quickly Peek at Documents/Email (Preview)

Sometimes you just need a quick glance at a document or email:  Maybe to grab a phone number, email address or account number.  Or maybe you want to make sure you’re looking at the right document before opening it outright.

With LexWorkplace, you can see a full-text preview of any document or email, in one click.

Just click the eye icon and a full-text preview sidebar will open in LexWorkplace instantly, without opening the full document and its application (Word, Outlook, etc.)

12. Limit Who Can Create Clients & Matters

If your firm uses (or has used) basic file systems such as a local file server (AKA “The S:\ Drive”), OneDrive or Dropbox, you know that anyone can create new folders anywhere.  Which means, inevitably, over time, your folder structure (once so tidy) becomes an incomprehensible mess.

We call this the “Wild West” of folders and sub-folders.

No more.  With LexWorkplace, every document and email must be stored in a Client/Matter (or in Firm Documents).  And you can limit what users in your firm can create new Clients and Matters,  eliminating proliferation of empty, “bogus” client/matters.

Closing the Loop

Modern law firms need modern tools to best serve their clients.

LexWorkplace is a powerful yet easy-to-use legal document management platform.  From secure sharing, to full-text search to automated version management, LexWorkplace has everything you need to streamline your work and improve your bottom line.

If you’re ready to see what LexWorkplace can do for your firm, we encourage you to watch the 5-minute demo below, watch the full LexWorkplace Walk-Through, or book a one-on-one demo, and experience the difference for yourself.