Update to “Why Embrace Document Automation?” December 20, 2017It seems hard to believe that we wrote this original blog post nearly three years ago. Time flies. Yet even something done three weeks ago seems like three years ago, maybe more. Time really flies right now.It’s easy to feel like things are out of your control,
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15 Things You Could Be Doing Instead of Legal Paperwork. The Document Automation Edition.
We recently came across an article published a few years back on the software review site Capterra: “15 Things You Could Be Doing Instead of Legal Paperwork,” by Halden Ingwersen. The article is a hilariously irreverent look at how “Being a lawyer is ridiculously time-consuming.” Unlike many articles and reports on legal technology
The Best Way to Predict the Future (of Law) is to Create It
“The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It.”- Abraham Lincoln (or maybe Peter Drucker?)Another week, another study of legal departments – this time the Accenture 2019 Legal Risk Study. Titled: “Future Law . . . Balancing More with Less,” the study – just like the Deloitte study we covered
Document Automation Helps Close the Gap Between Legal Department Leaders and Their Teams
We’ve been getting more and more inquiries from corporate legal departments lately. It seems that they are starting to get the message that there’s a better way to practice law than to just keep reinventing wheels over and over again.That’s a good thing for them – and everyone – because it appears that there’s still
For Successful Legal Tech Adoption, Look to the User Experience
We’ve had a bit of fun with some of recent blog posts. We’ve even been able to quote Cher … more than once!But now it’s time for a more serious topic: how to get lawyers to actually use legal technology. Anyone can buy legal technology, but getting lawyers to actually use that technology is where
Fear is Still Not an Option at Woodpecker. And That Feeling is Still Not Mutual.
Earlier this year we wrote one of our most popular blog posts: “At Woodpecker, Fear is not an Option. Shockingly, the Feeling isn’t Always Mutual.” In this post, we discussed how a legacy document automation competitor was using fear to try to sell upgrades to their product, and we reaffirmed to you that
Failure Should Always Be an Option
“Failure is not an option”- Gene Krantz, NASA flight director in the movie “Apollo 13”Gene Krantz, who was the NASA flight director from the Gemini program through much of the Space Shuttle era, has confirmed that he never actually said “failure is not an option” during the real-life heroics needed to save Apollo 13. They
Free Yourself from Dependency on Your IT Team
Joe Patrice, of Above The Law and one of our speakers in our “Are Lawyers Luddites?” webinar earlier this year, is famous for his searing insights into the often gritty intersection between law and technology. Well, Joe has struck once again, this time with his latest screed “Have IT Departments Become Unlikely
Do You Believe in Life After HotDocs?
Our goal has always been to make your life better, to empower you to get back to what you actually enjoy doing and to do what you do best. We’ve sought to do this by creating the best document automation solution we could and then introducing the legal world to the idea that document automation
You Don’t Need Document Automation Software
Sometimes, we struggle to make what we want to say clear. And then, somebody comes along and say it for you. So thank you to Sahil Lavingia (@shl).Because you don’t need document automation software.You need more clients. You need them now.You need to keep the clients that you do have. You need to