What’s the difference between a successful and mediocre estate planning attorney? Increasingly, it’s a matter of law firm technology. If your firm operates with aging, less than ideal, software and equipment, you could be sacrificing some degree of competitiveness. Here are a few reasons you might be making slow progress on your firm’s tech end:

Even the best writers fall victim to typos and mistakes. As an estate planning attorney, these can hurt your practice’s reputation and have a number of other consequences. For example, they could also create tax issues for your clients and put you at risk of legal action. If you consistently find errors and typos in your legal documents, it might be time to invest in estate planning software that helps craft critical documents like wills and trusts.

Believe it or not, 43% of Americans don’t have an estate plan. While the advantages of a will or trust might seem obvious to you as an estate planning attorney, a sizeable minority of Americans don’t recognize the value.

Even when the topic does cross their mind, misconceptions about estate planning abound. The most common one is that the average person doesn’t need an estate plan. Of the 43% of Americans who don’t have a plan in place, more than one third (37%) haven’t addressed the issue because they don’t believe they have sufficient assets to warrant an estate plan. Another 29% said they weren’t wealthy enough to even consider it.