Automate Office Work
Episodes
44. Simple Wiki
Contributed by Lukas
You just need a simple place for your department to be able to give constant data that people can find and contribute to. Like a simple Wiki.
43. Automating Privacy Compliance
Contributed by Lukas
I'm joined by Marianne and Roel who decided to found Awesome Compliance Technology. Literally. We'll hear how they went from dream to reality and wha...
42. Live Group Chat
Contributed by Lukas
Group chat with a diverse group of professionals all working in legal tech. Come hear all kinds of ideas about where legal technology is going and ho...
41. Building Your Dream
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a dream for how your work should look? All in one place in a single platform? Everything connected? Organized? Automated? Here's how to g...
40. Beautiful SharePoint Pages
Contributed by Lukas
Your company has SharePoint. But you're severely limited in what you can put on a page. Wouldn't it be nice if you could make it exactly how you want...
39. Employee Photos
Contributed by Lukas
Here's how to automate something really complex. A portal for employee photos. We will automate every part of this. No more spreadsheets. No more ema...
38. Onboarding
Contributed by Lukas
Be honest. Could your onboarding process use some improving? Here's how to automate it.
37. Thinking Like a Programmer
Contributed by Lukas
The programmer's mindset is great to have when building solutions. Programmer's often get it by learning to code. But the thing is, you don't have to...
36. Beautiful Solutions
Contributed by Lukas
Creating a solution that functions beautifully while also looking beautiful can be difficult. You may think that you weren't born with artistic skill...
35. Monthly Reports
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest pains in office work: Monthly reports. You're a manager and you have to report up the chain what your team worked on for the month...
34. Mapping Out a Solution: a Case Study
Contributed by Lukas
You've identified your problem. Now how do you know what a good solution looks like? Map it out. You can then go build it or evaluate existing produc...
33. My First Automation
Contributed by Lukas
Here's where it all started for me. I studied computers and then studied law. And then realized I had a super power to automate a huge amount of my w...
32. Department Lists
Contributed by Lukas
In a previous episode "Automating People Stuff" we talked about creating a list of people in a department that maintains itself as people join and le...
31. A Conversation with Emma Kelly: Skeptically Optimistic
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in on an intriguing conversation about the proper use of AI. Not exactly the how of using new technology, but the why and what it means for us...
30. SharePoint
Contributed by Lukas
You think you know SharePoint. Think again. Learn how to use it on steroids. It's the technology used behind Teams and OneDrive and the place to stor...
29. Decision Trees
Contributed by Lukas
Decision trees can be very useful in all kinds of scenarios. Instead of guiding your user face-to-face every time, automate the experience and empowe...
28. Design with Peter Hornsby
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down to talk with Peter Hornsby about design. What is it? What are the benefits of design? How do we incorporate design principals into the ma...
27. Mailing Lists
Contributed by Lukas
Has your boss ever asked you to email a section of your department? Perhaps all the product managers. Or all the administrative assistants. Or all th...
26. Vendor Maps
Contributed by Lukas
You manage the list of vendors for your department. Now how do you get department members to use the existing vendors instead of asking to onboard ev...
25. Automating Legal with Sare Brownhill
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down for a conversation with Sare Brownhill. Sare spent two decades in the legal industry working in various law firms in the UK. In January o...
15. Donation Requests: a complex automation example
Contributed by Lukas
In many companies, Compliance tracks donation requests in a spreadsheet. And emails. Lots and lots of emails. Perhaps even months of emails. The smal...
54. How to Start an Automation Company
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a year and a half since I started my own company. I meet with another entrepreneur and we reflect on our journeys of how we got started.
53. The Anti-Innovation Playbook
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes seeing something from its opposite gives insights. Here's the playbook to stop innovation in its tracks.
52. One Year of Podcasting
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a year since since I started podcasting. It's time to look back and reflect.
51. What We Can Learn From the Military About Innovation
Contributed by Lukas
My guest Shelley Bauer is a process improvement expert. What her experience in the military taught her about innovation is fascinating.
50. Build Versus Buy
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest decisions when putting in place tools is whetehr to build or buy. It's actually a false choice. We actually always do a mix of bot...
49. Start Where You Are With Arshita Anand
Contributed by Lukas
I sit down with Arshita Anand, a lawyer from India, and we discuss how organizations can start using technology.
48. Educational Platform
Contributed by Lukas
Once you can build systems you can build anything. Even a system to teach people to build such systems.
47. Organizational Health Check
Contributed by Lukas
Is your organization fit enough to handle change, innovation, and automation? In this episode, we’ll run an organizational health check to spot str...
46. Innovating the Right Way With Victoria Lee
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation is hard. Here's how to approach it the right way.
45. Cutting Slack with Kevin Keller
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Keller is a builder in the legal tech space. He's out there getting his hands dirty using the tools available. Join us as we hear what he's up ...
55. What Vendors Wish Legal Tech Buyers Knew
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a big gap between what buyers expect and what vendors experience. We’re breaking down the unspoken truths that could save you time, money...
57. What is Value?
Contributed by Lukas
What is value, really? In this episode, we break down why most office work isn’t actually valuable — and how to tell the difference between real ...
56. From Spreadsheets to Work Platform
Contributed by Lukas
Does your work involve managing a bunch of spreadsheets that are all connected? A change in one impacts several others? Here's how to create the righ...
24. AI Is Not the Answer to Everything
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down for a conversation with Michael Thompson and discuss how to properly use AI. Michael is the head of Legal Operations at the international...
23. Team Responsibilities
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You're reaching out to me because my colleauge is on extended vacation? Well you'll just have to wait until they get back because no one on the rest ...
22. Batch Documents
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you or a team of people tasked with manually sending out thousands of documents for signature that are basically the same and some of them have s...
21. An Approvals Platform that Isn't Email
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Approvals can pop up at any place in a process. Do you have a way to capture them that isn't email and spreadsheets? Let's automate it.
20. Trainings. One department platform for them all.
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you meet with groups of people to train them from time to time. Over Teams? You know you can record the training and make it available? All those ...
19. Email. It's killing your productivity.
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's time we discuss your email habits. It's killing your productivity. This is an intervention.
18. Ideas
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ideas aren’t just sparks. They’re the rocket fuel for growth, transformation, and competitive edge. Yet too many organizations let these game-cha...
17. Playbooks
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After you have your templates in order, the next thing you'll want are playbooks. A place for people working with your templates to get the answers t...
16. Biographies
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Automation can be used to connect and bring people together. In the last episode we went over an automated org chart. And when you clicked on a perso...
14. Org Charts
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Org charts are a pain to manually update—so why not automate them?
13. A conversation with Jonathan Williams about the future of legal work and legal technology
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with Jonathan Williams from legal tech company Leya for a conversation. We have so many common interests the conversation is sure to be i...
12. Automating People Stuff
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything starts with people. From the moment someone joins your department, you can set up automations that listen for this, adds them to a SharePo...
11. My ideal contracts repository I built in Outlook and SharePoint
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me show you the repository I built that works exactly where I work. Accompanying article at https://automateofficework.com/products/contracts
10. Repository
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The repository is often a major part of workflows, usually at the end. When work is all done, there is often a need for a permanent place to keep wor...
9. Let's get rid of your spreadsheet chaos
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a spreadsheet you use for data tracking and it's driving you nuts? Let's get you to the right solution.
8. Getting to know the host, Justin
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for me to share more about myself and my journey of automating as a corporate lawyer.
7. Processes: A deep dive
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You must structure your work as a process for computers to best be able to do the work. But what are the essential parts of a process and how does it...
6. Templates: Bringing it all together
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the third and final discussion about templates. This week we bring it all together and go through the steps how you can get your templates in...
5. Template Libraries
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 20min discussion about how to build a template library for your department. Justin shows what he built in SharePoint that is reflected into Outlook...
4. Templates: How to structure them for automation and how .docx files work
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first session on Templates, Justin shows how to structure contract templates in Word. This makes it easier for humans to work with them. Then...
3. Turning Intake Forms into a Request Platform
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justin shows how to stop using Excel and Outlook when managing your work that is initiated with intake form in a request platform. He demonstrates th...
2. Automation Starts with Intake
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the host, Justin, as he goes through the benefits of intake forms. Starting with paper, progressing to smart PDF's and ideally ending with a web...
1. Getting Started Automating in the Microsoft Environment
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the host Justin Turman as he shows how to get started automating using Microsoft Power Automate and SharePoint. Justin was a corporate lawyer fo...