How Filevine Helped a PI Attorney Centralize and Scale (Full Transcript)

[00:00:07] Speaker 1: I'm Ryan McKean. I am an attorney. I have practiced law for 20 years. I have been in the personal injury space for probably 23 years. At this point, I'm most well known for founding and leading Connecticut trial firm to $100 million jury verdict. I have since stepped back from that firm. I now live in the consultant space helping lawyers from around the world grow their firms the way we were able to grow ours. And I'm an adjunct professor of law at University of Connecticut, where I teach legal entrepreneurship. And I have the world's tiniest PI practice, also powered by Filevine. I have about seven cases right now and then keep it very small. Filevine changed my business radically, because it was the first time where I could have the beginnings of all my information in one place. And that was incredibly powerful to me, because before some things would live in Gmail, my texts would live on my cell phone, documents would live in Dropbox, and there was no centralized way to understand anything. There was also no centralized way for to really organize my task flow to understand what needed to be done to do those things. And this is 2017. So document automation was a really big thing at this time as well. And being able to automate form documents, and Filevine did not have at this point, even a customs editor. So what it would grow into doing and being and housing my data, housing my tasks, allowing me to scale very efficiently, was incredibly critical. The biggest thing is, and look, I do consulting now. So I get this, like, you know, a lot more than like 99% of the people that you talk to. So you're probably operating up here. I'm not even talking like Ken Elliott level, we're excluding outliers, right? But I'm talking like, you know, a lot more than oftentimes the lawyers and, you know, understand that the problems that they're trying to solve are beyond just tech. So you're like, Oh, you can upload this here. And you can do this, really spend time, you know, on these calls, why would you want to do that? Or how would that be interesting? Also explain, you know, to me, I think for Filevine, explain you do some new feature, what is the problem that you're trying to solve for? You know, don't just announce like, Oh, this is really cool. And you know, you know, deeply what the problem is, but explain the problem. Like we're enforcing, because I can tell you as both a law firm owner, and a consultant, like, we are in a disruptive age, things are changing very, very fast. Filevine, what it is this year, versus even last year is completely different. And I'm sure when we go to Lex summit in the fall, we're gonna hear things that can be like, it's gonna be completely different again. And that's a forever thing. So understand that, slow it down. Listen, explain, and explain what, why Filevine built this. Transcribed by https://otter.ai