Using Technology to increase Work Satisfaction in Legal Industry

Abstract

Work satisfaction is a feeling of contentment among the employees which they gain out of their work or job. The accomplishments in the jobs of the employees lead them to feel satisfied in their work and motivate them further to do better.
The job that legal professionals have and the nature of it require extraneous physical and mental efforts; and dealing with high pressure makes the legal profession all the more challenging. The demand and expectations from a professional in the legal profession are also high. Such high expectations can lead to stress and strain and this sometime leads to job dissatisfaction. The paper will see the various reasons because of which the work satisfaction is low and will try to come up with solutions that can be implemented through technology to bring down the strain and stress.
The paper will see the trend in work satisfaction in the legal industry through a survey conducted among the lawyers working in the law firms, in the courts and in various law offices and would try to decipher the reasons behind the level of work satisfaction in the legal industry.
The paper will aim to understand work satisfaction among professionals in the legal industry, understand the reasons behind such it and will try to come up with solutions to increase the work satisfaction among lawyers. Such solution would majorly be those that can be implemented through technology in order to make the tasks of legal professionals easier. This will be done by thorough analysis and understandings of the reasons for low work satisfaction, identifying the gaps that can be filled and bringing the transformational changes to make the tasks of the legal professionals easier. The focus majorly would be to eliminate the focus of legal professionals from the mundane tasks in order for them to give importance to the tasks that are intellectual in nature and requires more attention.
The paper would consider free time available at the hands of these professionals and the income generated by them as the major parameters on which the work satisfaction of the lawyers would be gauged. These would be mentioned as the primary parameters. To help build the strength of the parameters taken, the data relating to the age of the lawyers, number of years of experience, number of working days, time off, time for recreational activities and the cities in which they live in are taken into account. Such parameters would be called the secondary parameters. The reasons for taking such parameters into account will be duly explained in detail in the course of discussion of this research paper.
The premise, thus, in discussing about the problem at hand and coming with practical solutions is that eliminating the mundane tasks would give better sense of accomplishments and would also reduce the time required to be given in the job to a great extent.
This would thus lead to greater satisfaction among the professionals in the legal industry.