Getting stuck is the phenomenon of having a question with no answer. As we go about our days, we come across questions that need answering. If we have the answer, we don’t think much about it. But when we don’t have the answer, and don’t know how to get it, then it is a problem. Software, like amicus.work , provide their value in helping you avoid or solve these problems. Here is how we can be useful in addressing those difficult to answer questions that make our workdays longer: What needs to be done and who needs to do it? In an ideal world we would all have one task, which could be completed immediately before we would need to jump onto the next one. But we do not live in an ideal world. We often have to jump between tasks and miss things in the process of doing so. Structuring your workflows can make it easy to know what needs to be done, who is assigned to do it and what other things are on your plate. This reduces down time, avoid duplicated work and saves you from taking on...
Why is it so hard? Email is a great platform for asynchronous communication. Its roots go all the way back to the beginning of the internet with ARPANET. The engineers who put together ARPANET and the early email protocols were very smart, but they could not have foreseen all the possible applications computers and the internet would see in the future. And that is why finding documents in email chains is difficult. The sending and receiving of documents and document links along with the email messages, along with other features, were tacked on later. And for that reason they are not optimized for document retrieval. The problem is doubly difficult for law firms since not only do documents need to be assigned with particular email chains, they need to be assigned to clients and particular matters as well. So when you are having trouble finding a document for one of the matters from your client, it’s not you. It is not your junior. It is the email system. What are the options? If email i...