We get it. Your inbox is messier than Trump's foreign policy. Your phone has more unread notifications than your Grandma's Facebook account. Staying on top of it all is tough. While it seems like you (or your Head of Innovation) have got all the latest legal tech, we think you should focus on tools which help you stay on top of basic tasks.

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Post it notes are a great way of keeping things at the front of your mind. Apps like Post-it Plus can record and keep all those post-its in one place, once you've finished brainstorming.

We are pretty sure you will be using something like Slack to manage projects, but consider branching out to add Visual Studio to create work boards. Each piece of work becomes a task which you can assign to yourself or others, and move from Pending, to Active, to Resolved as you progress. Its a fantastic way to visualise your workflow and stay on top of everything.

Everyone keeps telling us it's the end of the billable hour. Unfortunately for you, that means your workload has doubled. You have spent too many nights hunched over a spreadsheet angrily muttering at bad narratives, questionable cost projections and overrunning budgets. Clearly you need a knight in shining legal tech.

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If scoping projects and creating fee arrangements fills you with dread, then your first stop should obviously be Clocktimizer. While we're clearly biased, we also have some very satisfied customers who can testify that our tool provides historically accurate fee quotes without the headache. For those of you tearing your hair out checking narratives, we can also identify 'vague' descriptions and single them out. So no longer will you spend your nights nursing an unhealthy coffee addiction and pages of time sheets.

If billing clients is your least favourite task (and in turn avoiding the metaphorical Scylla and Charybdis that are procurement rules and fee arrangements) then Clio should be on your list too. Whilst you could hardly call Clio a new contender, their billing management systems are clearly not global yet. So reduce time wasted on ensuring billing compliance and spend it on something more fun. Like planning the next office Friday drinks.

Unless you are starring in the next Marvel movie, you're unlikely to have the superhuman organisational abilities needed to keep on top of all of your matters without help. Thankfully, legal tech exists to combat the moment of panic you get when you wake up at 3am convinced that you've forgotten to file an important document or send off an urgent contract. We advise you invest in case management technology.

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Case management systems are nothing new. If this is news to you then we think you're really going to enjoy other revelations, like emails and the internet. However there are a number of different solutions and where one fails to hit the mark, there are a number of alternatives ready to jump in and snap up your business. Big hitters like PracticePanther and Clio are used globally to manage the thousand different moving parts involved in legal practice. However, newer, more focused options are also available. Docyard is specifically designed to manage corporate or commercial transactions. HighQ helps increase client engagement by providing a secure platform to work and share directly with clients. Great options are only a Google away.

No one has fond memories of trawling through Westlaw or LexisNexis to support your hastily scrawled essay exploring the finer points of criminal law. Thankfully most of us have been able to leave those heady days of (plenty of) drinking and (considerably less) studying behind. It seems, however, that this is still the reality for you. We feel your pain. As such we advise you invest some time finding legal tech tools to support everything from checking citations, to reviewing contracts. So you can return to the university-era work/play balance.

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First and foremost, if you're still manually checking citations, we have to question your sanity. If you fear that citation checkers are all prohibitively priced, then think again. EVA, ROSS's latest AI application is available for free. Simply create a profile, drag and drop in your brief and get working. Alternatively CARA (clearly litigation innovators have a thing for girl's names as acronyms) was voted the American Association of Law Libraries new product of the year (2017).

If you want to get more information of the quality of the brief itself, then there are also tools available to you. Judicata combines great AI with a beautiful interface to give you the edge in litigation matters. Finally, if you want advice on the likely outcome of your case, then legal tech is well on the way to helping here too. In a recent test of Case Crunch, lawyers could only successfully predict the outcomes of financial product mis-selling claims in 62% of cases, compared to the AI's 87%. Those of you looking to ensure your document review goes smoothly also need not worry. From Luminance to Kira there are a host of contract review programs designed to take the hassle out of reviews.

Clearly you are up to speed on the day to day ways legal tech can support you. Colour us impressed! Unfortunately, practising law involves more than just practising law. As a business you're looking to find ways to improve your service, identify efficiencies and become more profitable. To do that you need good data. Which is where legal tech comes in.

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Funnily enough, Clocktimizer offers a wealth of data for those looking to dive into the business of law. The Clocktimizer application offers profitability insights on the client, practice group and matter level. Clocktimizer Can help identify high cost, high volume processes, which offer the best reward for efficiency measures. Clocktimizer can also help target innovation by identifying which timekeepers would benefit the most from, say, an automated citation checker.

The second important thing to invest in is data capture. There are many BI solutions, and many ways of modelling data to determine whether correlation is in fact causation. Whether reducing the time it takes to reply to a client's email results in better recovery rates. The key is to ensure you are first recording that data. So we would advise you start by building a picture of the data streams you work with, and assessing whether they offer the full picture. If not, work out what information you would like to know and get recording it!