09/02/2026
Before assuming a legal team needs more people, it can be useful to look at what is consuming the capacity it already has.
How much time goes to finding information, following up, entering the same data more than once, checking status, or manually moving work from one person to the next?
Sometimes additional staffing is the answer. Sometimes the workflow itself is quietly using hours that could be spent on higher-value work.
The first step is understanding where the time actually goes.
