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Gartner’s latest prediction landed last week with a headline that legal technology vendors will be quoting for years: legal tech budgets will double by 2028. If you are a GC, managing partner, or director of legal operations, you are probably already fielding calls from vendors who want to be part of that spending.

In the bustling world of legal practices, where many documents could be the linchpin of a case, efficient document management is not just a convenience — it’s a necessity. Yet, many law firms find themselves entangled in the chaos of outdated document management practices and systems, where vital information is often buried in physical file cabinets or lost in disorganized digital folders scattered across multiple applications.

There’s a moment most legal professionals know well. It’s 10:00pm. The closing is tomorrow morning. One document changed. And now someone, usually a paralegal, is rebuilding the entire binder from scratch.

He came to the session having done something unusual. He’d gone back through 14 months of coaching notes, fed them into an AI tool, and asked a hard question: Where am I not progressing?

You built a law firm. You hired attorneys. You built a team around you. And you are still — still — the one who catches the error before it goes out. Still the one on the call. Still the one buried in the file. And the story you tell yourself is some version of: I just need a better system. A better process. More time in my calendar. Here’s what nobody is telling you: the problem isn’t your calendar. The problem isn’t your team. The issue isn’t even you; It’s the architecture.

We work with and listen to the concerns of a lot of accounting firms. And it’s clear that succession planning is something owners know they should address, but few have a clear strategy for how to approach it.

Inspired by my Kenyan safari, "Field Notes" are my observations from the field where my clients and I work — coaching sessions. Each field note is drawn from actual client sessions and gives insight into the personal evolution of my clients.

Over the years, we’ve seen the same pattern with many firms we’ve worked with. Firm owners know they won’t run the business forever. Still, succession planning is often delayed far longer than it should be.