Administrative Training Curriculum

Welcome to SmartAdvocate, the State-of-the-Art, case management application!  Thank you for giving SmartAdvocate the opportunity to support your company through this project. We appreciate your commitment to this project and your willingness to work with our team through your implementation, training, go live and support thereafter. 

We perform our administrative onboarding sessions in 8 one hour sessions to allow your team to absorb the information provided and to perform the assigned material within your system which should be done soon after each session topics are explained.  The expectation is for this material to be completed and your team to be ready for the next sessions topics weekly.  

For your firm and your staff to make the best possible use of SmartAdvocate AND to take full advantage of its many features, adequate onboarding is essential. The onboarding time your Sales Associate recommends is based on our extensive knowledge of having onboarded many firms over an extended period of time. We want to emphasize in the strongest possible terms the importance of adequate onboarding. Don’t shortchange yourself and your firm when it comes to onboarding. It will end up hurting your firm in the long run.

Once you schedule administrative onboarding, a calendar invitation will be sent.  If you are able to attend the session, please be certain to accept the calendar invitation. This session will be held online remotely using Zoom where all users will be able to see the screen and participate in the conference call.  All users must use a reliable internet connection and a reliable phone connection to allow suitable access to the session.  Each session will be recorded and we will provide you the recording thereafter.

Our administrative sessions will cover the following topics with the expectation you will perform the implementation of the items immediately thereafter:

Session 1

  • Users

  • User Permissions for office roles

  • Case Roles, Titles and Firm Roles as necessary

User Configuration Video

Session 2

  • Case Groups

  • Case Incident Types

  • Case Wizard Configuration

  • Case Types

    • Statute of Limitations

    • Default Defendant

    • Default Staff

  • User Defined Fields (Intake Questions)

  • Quick Injuries

  • Paid Advertisements

  • Paid Advertisements Dashboard

Case Wizard Configuration Training Video

Session 3

  • Statuses (including sub-statuses, M1, M2, M3)

  • Stages

  • Stage Intervals

  • Status Intervals

  • Stage Dashboards

  • Closed Case Reasons

  • Closed Case Dashboard

  • Case Values & Disbursement Limits

  • Fee Structures

  • Setting Default Fee Structures

  • Refer-Out Firm Rules

  • Partner Law Firm Portal

Status Configuration Training Video

Session 4

  • Document Template Creation

  • Document Template Groups

  • Document Template Bundles

  • Document Categories/Subcategories

Document Configuration Training Video

Document Templates Training Video

Session 5

  • Item Templates

  • WorkPlan Management

  • WorkPlan Assignments

  • Task Categories

  • Task Groups

  • Task Templates

WorkPlans and Automation Workshop

Session 6

  • Email/Note/Appointment Templates

  • Text Message Templates

  • Automated Procedures

  • Note Types

  • Notes Overdue by Type Dashboard

  • Quick Notes

  • Intake Follow Up Dashboard

  • Client Contact Overdue Dashboard

  • Client Contact Frequencies

Automated Procedure Video

Note, Emails and Text Message Templates Training Video

Session 7

  • Firm Information

    • Firm Contact Card

  • Firm Offices

  • Appointment Activity Types

  • Adjourn/Cancel Reasons

  • Lien Types

  • Disbursement Types

  • Postage Costs

  • Collateral Types

  • Critical Deadline Types

  • Litigation Discovery Types

  • Litigation Deposition Types

  • Litigation Expert Specialties & Sub-Specialties

  • Contact Types

  • Contact Document Types

  • Medical Provider Specialties & Sub-Specialties

  • Medical Record Request Types

  • Medical Provider Specialties

  • Medical Record Request Types

  • Medical Record Follow Up Dashboards

Medical Configurations Training Video
Appointment, Critical Deadlines & Task Configurations Training Video
Contact Configurations Training Video

Litigation Configurations Training Video
Disbursements & Time Tracking Configurations Training Video

Session 8

  • Case Menu Configurator

  • Custom Panels

  • Case Tags

  • Documents Tags

 

Visit smartadvocate.com/support for other help options including how to access our Support Tracker and Daily Office Hours sessions.