MG Legal Ops

Paralegal daily rundown

Ask for this when: you are starting your day and want to know what is due, what is missing from a calendar, and what needs filing - dates first.

"What's on my plate today?" "Give me my daily rundown." "What's due in the next two weeks?"

If your firm's account lists you as a paralegal, "morning brief" gets you this version.

What it shows you

A short read, in this order:

  • Due today and over the next two weeks: tasks due today, then every court date and deadline in date order with the matter number. Anything with nothing logged on the matter yet is flagged as a prompt to look, never as a claim that the work is undone.
  • Calendar gaps: Clio dates that are not on your Outlook calendar, and Outlook meetings with no Clio counterpart, with an offer to put them on both.
  • Filing: how many emails are unfiled with a clear matter, how many need a look, and the ones from people who are not Clio contacts counted separately so they do not read as a backlog.
  • Quiet matters: open files with no recorded activity past the firm's threshold, longest first, with an offer to draft a check-in for the attorney to review.
  • Your own time, only if you record time in Clio: possible missing entries this week.

It ends with two or three concrete next steps drawn from what it found, and does nothing until you pick one.

What it can't do

  • It reads your own mailbox, calendar, and Clio account. An attorney's inbox is not in it unless it is shared with you in Outlook.
  • It is a summary. The full lists live in the filing, billing, and calendar-sync guides; ask for them by name.
  • It never files, calendars, or drafts as part of the rundown. Each of those is its own "show me first, then yes".