By Legal Futures Associate Document Direct
In a world where time really is money, how much of your working day is spent on tasks that don’t directly generate revenue?
For many legal professionals, document production, transcription and administrative work quietly consume hours that could be better spent on client relationships, or business development.
It’s time to shift the balance.
Typing up attendance notes, formatting documents or refining long reports are essential tasks – but they don’t need to be carried out by fee earners. When lawyers spend time on document production and admin, they’re pulled away from the work only they can do: advising clients, progressing matters and generating income.
The numbers quickly add up:
- Just one hour a day spent on admin or typing equals five hours a week
- That’s over 250 hours a year
- More than six full working weeks lost to non-billable work
- Applying a reasonable charge out rate gives you £75,000
Now imagine redirecting that time and money into strengthening client relationships, meeting introducers, attending events or developing strategies to win more of the work you want. The result is often more consistent, sustainable growth.
How Document Direct can help
Document Direct support law firms by taking document production and transcription off the desks of fee earners, without adding complexity or fixed cost. With secure, pay-as-you-go access to experienced legal typists, firms can dictate or submit work as needed and receive accurate, client-ready documents quickly – including out-of-hours and at peak times.
The result is fewer bottlenecks, faster turnaround, and fee earners freed up to focus on chargeable work, client care and business development. Many firms tell us it feels less like outsourcing and more like having an extension of their in-house team – one that understands legal terminology, house style and deadlines.
On a normal metric of typing and composition of work, Document Direct would complete the amount of typing highlighted above for much less than £10,000.
Contact us today to see how Document Direct can help reduce typing and document production time and give fee earners more time for billable and business-development work.
