Where I really think this is going and I where think it's really kind of cool is for something
like document assembly.
«The point is, if this project or service costs, in the hourly world, $ 3,000 [before you implement new technology], it may make sense for you to set a flat fee of $ 1,750, or $ 1,500, and then employ tools
like document assembly [software],» Calloway says.
Not exact matches
But two obstacles stand in the way of moving from something
like the WSGR term sheet generator to a broad - based
document -
assembly initiative for drafting contracts.
It's not the only blog focused on
document assembly issues (and not the only one run by someone who'd
like to sell you something)-- see, for instance, Bashablog and the Exari blog — but based on very early returns, it appears as though Martin will attempt to contribute legitimate thoughts on the issues, rather than merely run a continuous advertisement for his company.
I also kind of — I
like to call it a poor man's
document assembly or
document origination program because you don't have to have — you can get some of the benefits of those more expensive and comprehensive programs with this little tool that just kind of lives on your desktop and you just enter the characters and the beauty of it and what makes it I think better than just using the Microsoft Word equivalent is that you can use it — it's cross-platform, so you can use it in any software package that you happened to be running,
like if you're in Clio or whatever your timekeeping software is, if you've got the shortcuts set up properly in TextExpander you can use it in your time entries and it will carry — it will expand the text literally to fit the criteria that you set forth and that will greatly cut down on your time spent entering time.
I love tools
like that, and getting to the point where there are some actual user - friendly tools for
document assembly, that feels
like the holy grail to me.
Peter accepted his products» ambivalent reception from the legal world gracefully as ever with quips such as «
Document Assembly for lawyers is
like heaven; where they want to be, but not just yet».
Problem is that law firms with large practices would
like to set up the
document assembly process so that the text is inserted into the forms without the need for the paralegal to stop the process if necessary and then complete the schedule as required when the text exceeds the form field length.
Document assembly systems let you enter a value (
like a client's name) once in a given dialog.
And that among these large firms more than twice as many will charge their clients for photocopies and «long distance phone calls» (really) than incorporate cost - saving strategies
like predictive coding for electronic discovery or
document assembly software for contract drafting.
Robots have taken many of the
assembly - line jobs previously occupied by humans, and now it looks
like computers may be able to take over what amounts to legal
assembly - line work:
document review.
Google, if you want your M&A contracts to be free of shortcomings of the sort manifest in the Google — Motorola merger agreement, I suggest that you enlist some
like - minded companies and form a consortium to create a rigorous set of
document -
assembly M&A templates.
The author discusses how technologies
like practice systems, work product retrieval,
document assembly, and interactive checklists help people work smarter.
Nevertheless, Peter accepted his amazing legal software tools» ambivalent reception from the legal world gracefully as ever with quips such as «
Document Assembly for lawyers is
like heaven; where they want to be, but not just yet».