For small firms
Take on more matters without hiring
You already have juniors. What you do not have is partner time to check their work. Every lawyer in the firm has their own Miss Lucy, so what reaches a partner has been researched and had its citations checked — and there is less to catch, on more matters, with the team you already have.
Your day right now
- Good briefs come in and you turn some away, because there aren’t enough hours on the team to take them.
- A junior’s draft comes back and a partner still has to read every line of it — the cites, the structure, whether the law is even current. That checking is your most expensive hour of the day.
- The weaker the first draft, the more of it the partner rewrites, and the work quietly moves back up to the person it was delegated away from.
- Another hire means months of cost before they are productive, and the volume to justify it isn’t steady yet.
What changes
- Every lawyer in the firm gets their own Miss Lucy, so the drafts that reach a partner have already been researched and had their citations checked.
- There is less for the partner to catch. Checking a draft that started right is a different job from repairing one that didn’t.
- Juniors hand up better work and learn from it, instead of a partner silently rewriting the draft and everyone losing the lesson.
- You can say yes to the brief you would have turned away, because it now fits inside the team you already have.
More matters, same team
| What you do | Today | With Miss Lucy |
|---|---|---|
| Checking a junior’s draft | A partner reads every line and re-checks every cite | Researched and cite-checked before it reaches the partner |
| Taking on a new matter | Turned away when the team is at capacity | Accepted, with the intake drafted in minutes |
| Researching a point of law | Hours of a senior lawyer’s billable day | Minutes, which frees the seniors to review instead |
| A draft that comes back weak | The partner rewrites it and the delegation was pointless | A solid first draft, so the work stays where you put it |
The cheapest way to grow a small firm is not another salary. It is getting more out of the lawyers you already have, and spending less partner time fixing what comes back up.
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