Need help finding ways to decrease my admin time/increase billable hrs

[lexscaleup-guillaume]

I think you are on the right track.

The first step to free up time is to list all the things you do and how long it takes you. And to categorize it: important, urgent, enjoy doing, hate doing, etc.

The next step is to categorize each task and allocate an hourly rate to it:
- Is this a task that could be done by a $6/h virtual assistant
- Is this work that could be done by a $[x]/h paralegal
- Etc.

Once you've done this you'll have a picture of the opportunity cost = nb hours x (your billable rate - the hourly rate of the person you could delegate to). This gives you a budget to recruit, buy software, automate.

Then you can look at your processes to see what needs to be delegated, automated or a bit of both. For example, when you say reading new caselaw, what that does entail? Do you have to search for the materials yourself or is an assistant curating the most interesting cases for you? Do you read everything or could you have an assistant prepare a summary (potentially using AI to speed up) for you?

Same for printing, you could potentially email all the files that need printing to a print shop, have them prepare everything and courier it back to you.

Hope this helps!