HotDocs Document Automation Blog
What do red curry and large law have in common? Firoz Dattu of AdvanceLaw sheds some light on “Yelp-ification”
In a recent conference at Harvard Law School, Firoz Dattu, CEO of AdvanceLaw, pointed to the “Yelp-ification of the legal industry” as a specific disruptor of large law practices.
Glenn Rawdon of LSC Talks Document Assembly at the White House
HotDocs, a Gartner best-of-breed vendor for document assembly in 2013 and a Cool Vendor for Content Management in 2014, is the platform on which LSC-funded entities automate the production of legal documents.
Gamification or Process Automation: D. Casey Flaherty of Kia Motors Explains What Really Works
In describing what might get him to switch law firms, Flaherty describes a powerful expert system that Kia built and deployed itself, a HotDocs-based system that enables his internal clients to “access an automated questionnaire that enables them to generate the contract themselves.
Proud to be a Gartner Cool Vendor
We at HotDocs are extremely proud that our company has been named one of Gartner’s Cool Vendors for Content Management in its 2014 report.
Skunkworks and Large Law: Disrupting Your Own Business Model
Anyone connected to the legal services industry is aware of the widespread malaise: commoditization that took root in small law decades ago has now worked its way to the top; Am Law firms are feeling pressure to change pricing policies; some firms are shedding partners who are then opening leaner, meaner boutique firms; high-tech vendors
HotDocs Cloud Services: Delivering Interviews in Actionstep Workflows
HotDocs Cloud Services is a Document Generation Platform as a Service (DGPaaS) designed to deliver interactive HotDocs interviews into 3rd-party applications targeting vertical niches.
What is Contract Generation Software?
Contract generation is a common application of document generation software (document assembly software).
Disruption in the Legal Services Industry: Embrace Innovation
In the wake of the Weil, Gotshal downsizing in 2013, Barry Wolf, the firm’s Executive Partner, referred to the current economic environment for law firms as the new normal—what could best be described as an oversupply of legal services that was forcing law firms to adapt in a number of ways, including creatively dealing with
HotDocs Is Not Directly Affected by Heartbleed
HeartBleed is the name given to a bug/vulnerability discovered recently in OpenSSL’s implementation of the HTTPS/TLS protocol.
HotDocs Cloud Services: Paving the Way for a New Breed of Platform Provider
It’s been more than three years, now, since we began developing the HotDocs cloud stack, an integrated group of technologies that not only fortifies HotDocs’ position as the heavyweight of the document generation (document assembly) space but also position HotDocs as a key player in the ECM market.
HotDocs, a Standard for Document Generation among ECM Vendors
According to Gartner, ECM is a technology class that spans five key functionalities: content generation, content processing, content distribution, content storage, and content access .
Document Agility: An Embodiment of the HotDocs Cloud Services Vision
When we envisioned HotDocs Cloud Services, a Document Generation Platform as a Service (DGPaaS), in the fall of 2010, the idea was to enable 3rd-party web developers targeting specific niche markets to deliver complex, cloud-based HotDocs interviews indigenously within their own applications.