{"id":139377,"date":"2025-12-19T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/5-reasons-law-firms-keep-undervaluing-their-administrative-backbone-and-how-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:05:04","slug":"5-reasons-law-firms-keep-undervaluing-their-administrative-backbone-and-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/5-reasons-law-firms-keep-undervaluing-their-administrative-backbone-and-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons Law Firms Keep Undervaluing Their Administrative Backbone and How to Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The firms investing in administrative strategy \u2014 and in the people who embody it \u2014 continue to be the ones turning innovation into true competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" 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