Templating for Lawyers

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docassemble

Yeah, I've recommended <a href="https://docassemble.org/" rel="nofollow">https://docassemble.org/</a> to a lot of friends in the lawyer space. They use it a lot to generate some automate template software.

#Document Automation #Document Management #Document Assembly 15 social mentions

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Draftable Compare

<a href="https://draftable.com/" rel="nofollow">https://draftable.com/</a> <a href="https://api.draftable.com/examples" rel="nofollow">https://api.draftable.com/examples</a> is a secret weapon I've used frequently as a non-lawyer, including to silver-platter documents for counsel and to review things sent by external parties: you can give it two versions of a contract, and it automatically derives a redline, meaning that as long as you have sane file naming schemes, you essentially have `git diff` for contracts without ever needing the overhead of managing a repository. It's remarkably robust and has self-hosted options.<p>Thinking more broadly about tools for lawyers, I feel like too many attempts have fallen into the trap of "we need to disrupt everything and remove all rote work." From the lawyers I've talked to, the common thread is that they just want better visibility and a second pair of eyes; they'll be responsible for their work product at the end of the day and will need to type changes manually, but if something could help them find the "gotcha" buried on page 93 with slightly greater speed and reliability (or, to wit, find all typos from Word's automatic numbering), without requiring a full change in toolkit, it could meaningfully improve quality of life for counsel and clients alike.

#File Management #Merge Tools #Diff And Merge Tools 3 social mentions