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All right, peeps, here’s the thing.

Right peeps, here is the deal…

So peeps, here is something I’ve noticed… 

Right peeps, so here’s the thing.

Right, peeps, here’s the thing.

So, peeps, here is the truth.

So peeps, here is the deal… 

Right peeps, here’s the deal.

Right peeps, so here’s the thing…

hen you work effectively with your assistant, it really helps you to focus on high value tasks and earn more revenue in your law firm. 

Okay peeps, so here’s the thing. I regularly speak to law firm owners and lawyers who are overworked, overwhelmed, and over it. 

As a law firm owner, you’ll rely on your instincts a lot.

Did you know that on average, male lawyers in small law firms earn $84,000 more than female lawyers in small law firms every year?

One of the challenges law firm owners have in growing their firms, is finding the time to work on their business.

If you want a 7 figure firm, you need a team of A Players.

Business plans are a bit like fitness plans.

As a law firm owner, do you often feel like you’re on your own when it comes to hiring staff?

When you’re growing a law firm, it’s only natural that you’ll make mistakes.

If you haven’t used automation before, it can seem a bit scary.

The way you handle your competitors can make a huge difference in your own firm.

wyers are not good at investing in the help they need. If entrepreneurial lawyers spent more of their hard-earned money on getting help (or buying their way out of negative experiences) they will:

As a lawyer, what do you actually do with each new client?

What is your growth plan for your law firm during this economic recession?

“There are four things that law firms need to get right in order to be able to do digital marketing successfully”

So how much of a role does luck play in determining success? What about self-confidence? 

In my latest vid I’m sharing the secret of creating a powerful, valuable brand that will win you new, ideal clients and let you scale your law firm to seven figures. Not bad for a 6 minute watch, right? 

Last week we had the most amazing and productive 2-day strategic planning session – and now the team and I are back and ready to smash out the 2020 goals we set.

Respect, recognition, validation, affirmation. Call it what you will, most of us enjoy having it and (lawyers especially) work blimmin’ hard to earn it.

What does Christmas mean to you? For most lawyers (along with carols, client functions and frenzied online shopping to avoid the malls) Christmas means their law firm’s revenue takes a nose dive. 

I sent out an email the other day, inviting some savvy lawyers to take part in a program I’m running.

Okay entrepreneurial lawyers, quick question…

It’s happened. The thing that strikes terror into the hearts of even the most organised lawyers every year. The Christmas displays are going up! The countdown is on.

Recently Automio’s CEO + Founder, Claudia King

What the legal industry might look like in a decade depends very much on who’s telling the story.

There are more than half a dozen ways you can make money from your legal expertise.

You know I love me some automation.

Raise your hand if you want to:

Perfectionism – so highly prized in traditional law firms

In this socially linked-up, online age, connecting with like-minded people is easier than ever and can pay big dividends (last year I joined an online

I’ve got some super-exciting Automio news to share.

As an entrepreneurial lawyer, you’re confronted with these two things:

Let’s get this straight – ambition, success and seven-figures are NOT dirty words.

One of the biggest gripes I hear from lawyers is that they are doing the wrong work for clients that just aren’t right for them, and it’s making them miserable.

Q3 of 2019 is here! 

Can we talk about your hectic lawyer life for a sec?

Most lawyers I speak to give away their power to time.

Are you confused by the terms growing and scaling?

I’m going to start with the good news:

I spend a lot of time talking to entrepreneurial lawyers, and I’ve started to notice key similarities about the challenges they face.

Scaling your law firm isn’t just about having the right to-do list.

Starting next week, Automio law firm customers can use a range of popular Australian and NZ legal bots for free.

Usually I talk about target clients, online legal solutions and branding when it comes to scaling your law firm.

The first quarter of 2019 is done and dusted.

Our new API is here.

Author: Adel-Alexander Aldilemi is a content writer at Valuer.Ai. He considers himself an avid traveler, as he has lived across two continents and is currently studying humanities

Are you tired of taking any and every client that comes your way, even if you don’t want to? The way to solve this problem

In mid 2013 I was convinced I was a failure.

Create beautiful legal documents with our improved document creator

A pre-launch will help to provide validation that your online legal solution meets the needs of your clients.

If you own a law firm, you need to be creating and leveraging intellectual property – these are the two words that will increase your firm’s revenue more than anything else.

Automio users have been asking for a faster, more engaging and interactive interviewer.

You’ve probably seen entrepreneurial law firm owners enter the legal world and scale their firms and create an audience super fast.

Do you look at the law firms that are crushing it in the online world and wonder how they’re doing it?

Recovering lawyer and tech entrepreneur Claudia King on the story of Automio and her vision for the future of the legal industry.

Around the world, the professional services industry is abuzz with talk about automation, innovation and artificial intelligence (AI).

By investing your time wisely and looking beyond trading hours for dollars, you could be earning money with your legal expertise in ways that you haven’t thought about before.

Global Legal Solutions (GLS) is an international legal industry disrupter. The GLS team is committed to removing time and cost as barriers to any business globally

Try our Confidentiality Agreement Bot

We have recently completed an exciting project for a law firm customer that involved creating a Will Bot in several languages – English, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Punjabi.

Lawyers are often concerned about how long it takes to successfully start using automation at their firm.

We are beyond excited to be featured by Forbes in their article 60 Women-Led Startups That Are Shaking Up Tech Around The Globe. Since the article

As more law firms start to sell legal services online, law firms are wondering whether they should create a separate online brand to sell those online services.

Recovering lawyer, mum, and tech entrepreneur: Claudia King on the importance of finding your spirit animals in the law

Innovation and the legal industry haven’t always gone hand in hand.

One of the most requested Automio features is finally here!

We celebrated Automio’s first birthday last week at our HQ in New Plymouth, NZ.

With Automio’s continuing expansion throughout Australia and New Zealand, we reckon it’s time to introduce you to our super-friendly customer success team. The fabulous frontliners

We’ve spent the last few months focusing on a number of things that we call customer love.

In the course of helping our customers automate interviews and documents, we deal with many “flavours” of law firm website.

It’s 2018 but most lawyers still work like it’s 1999.

There’s a big gap between how lawyers deliver legal services and what clients want and need from their lawyers.

What do your clients really think about you? And where do they want your law firm to take them?

We launched Automio a year ago with a vision to make quality legal help available to everyone, everywhere.

Hi, my name is Olivia, and I’m a recovering lawyer. 

At this point in the evolution of modern business, every opportunity remaining to lawyers involves risk.

I get rejected.  A lot. 

Holo-conferencing, hiring iGen lawyers, and statutes written in code…are you ready for a glimpse into the future of the legal profession?

Automio’s Customer Success Manager, Olivia Wensley, bravely writes about her experiences with sexual harassment in law firms.

Lawyer Bots are providing legal help and access to justice to the masses.

This is the fourth and final blog post in our four-part series called How To Eliminate the Bottlenecks At Your Law Firm.

When people would ask my business partner and father, Dennis King, what his succession plan was, he’d jokingly reply with a one word answer: “Claudia”.

If someone says they’re a tech entrepreneur and they don’t have a blog, are they even a tech entrepreneur …?

It’s a scary thought that runs through our minds when us lawyers hear the word automation.

Learn how to capitalise on your law firm’s intellectual property to stay ahead of the wave of change.

I have always believed that if you don’t ask, you don’t get.

Your law firm is profitable just as it is – so why invest in automation?

When the word “lawyer” springs to mind, it is often not associated with innovation and technology.

It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a lawyer.

Carrying out legal services for clients takes time, and there are only so many hours in the day you can sell.

Happy New Year peeps! This time of year is fantastic for reflection and planning. Here are some questions for you to consider

Billy Bot, Robot Lawyer Lisa, DoNotPay – these are a few of the cool bots out there that give legal help. But many lawyers don’t

This is our second blog post in our four-part series called How To Eliminate the Bottlenecks At Your Law Firm.

This month we’re running a four-part series on eliminating the bottlenecks at your law firm.

Lawyers have long used precedents and document assemblies to create client documents without reinventing the wheel every time.

Most businesses have begun to use technology to automate workflows, often to the point where no human intervention is required for straightforward transactions.

Innovation and the legal industry haven’t always gone hand in hand.

Many lawyers have a set of beliefs about how lawyers should act and do their legal work.

Improving speed and accuracy will mean a competitive advantag

Sarah Jones, the fabulous lawyer

you know what I’m excited about? The change in the air. The buzz. The nervous energy.

The responses I received to my article How I Survived the Death of My Business Partner were so moving.

Two months ago we launched the Automio smart document marketplace.

One of the more random things I’ve been getting asked by people is for advice on how, like me, they can transition from lawyer to working in a legal tech start-up.

Last week I was very honoured to win an individual award at the Janders Dean and LexisNexis Legal Innovation Index 2017 for my work with Automio.

I ventured out of Taranaki last week to meet with a number of our customers and potential customers (close the deal Zac).

Andrew Simmonds, the evil lawyer In this series we ask lawyers and others in the legal industry what their law firms are doing with legal

As my time being a lawyer and a director of a law firm comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on the highs and lows of my legal career.

Happy Hour

At the time of writing, I’m on holiday with my family in the Cook Islands.

In my first blog I set dual goals of blogging (1) regularly and (2) about stuff that would be useful to you.

How I refocused my brain to use hustle mode for the greater good of my legal business.