In my next column, I'll take a look at several more benefits
of document assembly systems, as well as several tips lawyers can use to introduce them to their practices.
There are pros and cons to creating your
own document assembly system versus buying / subscribing to a commercial system which are beyond the scope of this article.
They estimate as moderate the effect of automation on «Case Administration» (contract review systems), «Document Drafting» (
document assembly systems for internal use, or offered directly to consumers à la LegalZoom), «Due Diligence» (document review systems), «Legal Analysis Strategy» (prediction software) and «Legal Research» (more on this later).
Pre-internet business thinking saw
document assembly systems as internal efficiency tools mainly for law firms; post-Internet, we can see that this technology is a power vehicle for making legal know - how widely available on an online basis.
Those products include our California -, Florida -, and Texas -
specific document assembly systems along with our special purpose PowerPacks and our practice management software (Small Office Suite).
While neither constitutes a full -
blown document assembly system, Quick Parts and AutoText can, with either a couple of mouse clicks or a few keystrokes, save you from mumbling to yourself, «Where did I use that last?»
Posts cover the blogger's thoughts on contract drafting and contract automation, critique
other document assembly systems and otherwise explore language in legal contracts.
The fellow would work closely with NJP's staff on such tasks as screening the RFP's and
comparing document assembly systems, help to build the logic trees for assembly and create a testing program to test the forms.
We charge very little for it and 90 % of the work is done
through document assembly systems that we have where we can generate annual minutes and a corporate summary sheet and a little audit questionnaire, legal audit questionnaire for a very reasonable price.
There's no better illustration of this evolution within a single organisation than Ford Motor Company, which not only uses labour automation to assemble its vehicles, but is now also beginning to use document automation to assemble its legal contracts (using the
Exari document assembly system).
While other contract creation and
document assembly systems require templates to be created in a complex, proprietary, or xml based computer language, Contract Express Author employs an easy to use, lawyer - developed, legal mark - up notation which has the effect of turning static Word legal forms directly into dynamic web - based questionnaires.
He is particularly interested in work being done to
create document assembly systems; he admires the work of the Practical Lawyer Company, an English company (with a New York office).
«Senior partners can transfer work down to more junior staff who can benefit from expertise — legal rules, calculations, legal knowledge — that's codified in
the document assembly system,» says Doug Simpson, CEO of automated document drafting developer Legal Systematics, Inc..
While she suspects few companies offer that for
document assembly systems, «You want time to figure out if it's going to work for you,» she says.
First and foremost, Pathagoras is a «plain - text based»
document assembly system.
First and foremost, you and your staff can expect to learn how to use ProDoc,
our document assembly system.
«Practice management» includes case / matter management systems, time / billing / accounting systems, document and email management systems,
document assembly systems, and any other applications you may use.
Although Legal Files is designed to handle any type of case, the firm has found that the software's built - in
document assembly system is especially helpful for the firm's intensive workers» compensation cases.