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Let associates move forward without losing control of the matter
Associates progress through full rereads.
- Partners review every document end to end.
- The same corrections come back from one matter to the next.
- Associates learn what was expected of them at review time.
Work goes back and gets done again.
2023 · Employment law firm, Paris · 11 partners · 32 associates
Associates turned to partners for recurring tasks: finding a precedent, a template, a letter, a procedural detail. 54% of internal requests were recurring, and 29% needed less than fifteen minutes of legal reasoning. Partners spent about 7 hours a week on them.
We built a resource library in SharePoint and Teams, where each resource says when to use it, how, its limits and when to ask for approval. An escalation route handles non-standard situations. In six months, requests needing a partner fell from 54% to 31%, partner time from 7 to 3 hours a week, and 76% of associates use the library.
An associate progresses when they know what is expected and where to find good examples. Templates, planned review points and regular feedback replace full re-reads.
Structured templates and forms, review built into production.
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