Free Your Staff: Automate These 5 Legal Tasks Today

If you're a Legal Administrative Assistant, Paralegal, or legal support staff, your day is likely filled with document prep, email follow-ups, chasing signatures and documents. These repetitive tasks take up valuable time and keep you from focusing on more meaningful work.

This blog shows you how to get that time back. We'll cover six everyday legal tasks you can automate to work more efficiently, reduce stress, and support your team with confidence.

1. Document Drafting and Assembly Automation

What these tools do: Platforms like Litera, Clio Draft , and Contract Express help legal teams create smart templates for legal documents. These templates pull in client and case information automatically.

How they help: Say goodbye to copying and pasting. Document automation reduces drafting time, limits errors, and frees you up to focus on client-facing work.

2. Legal E-Signature Tools

What these tools do: Tools like DocuSign , Adobe Acrobat Sign , and Dropbox Sign , let you send, sign, and store documents electronically—all from your computer.

How they help: You no longer need to print, scan, or chase signatures. E-signature software keeps the process smooth, fast, and trackable.

3. Automated Client Intake for Law Firms

What these tools do: Tools such as Typeform, and Gravity Forms collect client information before meetings and can trigger next steps in your legal workflow.

How they help: These forms reduce back-and-forth emails, eliminate double entry, and kick off new matters with less manual input.

4. Legal Time Tracking and Billing Software

What these tools do: Platforms like TimeSolv, and Toggl Track track your hours using timers or calendar syncing and create invoices in minutes.

How they help: Capture billable hours in real-time and save time at month-end with streamlined billing.

5. Legal Document Request Automation

What these tools do: Tracument automates document requests, whether you're retrieving records, sending files, or responding to third parties. It keeps everything organized in one secure place. Other tools like NetDocuments, and Worldox support document access and management workflows.

How they help: These tools eliminate faxing, manual follow-ups, and inbox clutter. You get real-time updates, easy tracking, and more time for priority tasks.

Why Legal Task Automation Matters

When you automate repetitive legal tasks, you reclaim hours every week, lower your stress, and support better client outcomes. Legal support staff can focus on meaningful work that uses their expertise—instead of being stuck in admin loops.

Try Tracument Free for 30 Days

Want to see how document automation can help your legal team? Book a call with Tracument and try our platform free for 30 days. We'll help you identify quick wins and show you how easy it is to integrate into your daily workflow.

Automate smarter. Reduce trapped time. Support your team.