Turning precedents into templates that assemble from structured answers, so juniors cannot start from a five year old draft.
6 document automation products
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Document automation and court form filling, formerly Lawyaw.
Document automation from Thomson Reuters, common in larger firms.
Document automation and client-facing workflows, formerly Documate.
Document assembly with a long track record in large template libraries.
Legal automation and self-service tools built by legal teams without code.
Template automation that works inside Microsoft Word.
What does document automation actually save?
The drafting time is the obvious saving and usually the smaller one. The bigger return is having one current version of every document, so a junior cannot start from a five year old draft that nobody has updated since the law changed. Firms that measure this usually find the risk reduction worth more than the hours.
How much work is it to set up?
More than vendors imply, and it depends entirely on how standardised your precedents already are. If every fee earner has their own version of the same document, the real project is agreeing one version, and the software is the easy part. Start with the three documents you produce most often rather than the whole library.
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