Time for Some New Thinking: Changing how Organizations Create Transactional Documents

Ron MacInnis is a long-time document automation entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Document Agility. Ron had previously founded and led AccuDraft, a document generation company serving financial services organizations, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters. Document Agility is a SaaS application designed to facilitate collaborative document generation for organizations of all sizes....

With Technology Platforms, It’s All About the Ecosystem

So let’s say you’re shopping for a new tablet device. The decision goes beyond which piece of hardware you happen to like the best. You also have to consider the ecosystem you’ll be buying into. Now if it happens that you want the device primarily for reading books, an Amazon Kindle or Barnes and Noble...

LegalTech New York: the HotDocs Ecosystem in Action

Having recently returned from LegalTech New York, three particular meetings that I was involved in stand out, primarily because they each validated a core supposition of the HotDocs cloud-based ecosystem: if we build it, they will come. HotDocs–with it’s million+ users, 60% market share (ILTA 2013 Tech survey), best-of-breed badge from Gartner for ECM in...

Two Law Firm Applications for HotDocs Cloud Services

HotDocs Cloud Services, the industry leading document generation platform, has a clear and distinct value proposition: better documents in less time and for less money than any other method and delivered on demand in any organization’s custom environments—web pages or applications. For law firms, Cloud Services may be applied any number of different ways, but...

HotDocs is Cool, and We’re Not the Only Ones Who Think So

In a recent call, John Dixon, head of Gartner’s BPM group, was explaining what he and his team of analysts were looking for in the New Year—technologies that enable organizations to do things that simply couldn’t be done before. Genuine innovation and authentic disruption was what he was describing, and it was music to my...

HotDocs Confidential – The Silent Partner of Innovation

As with any other person who is responsible for a company’s brand and marketing, I am always keen to promote the successes that our customers have when using our product. In roles within other business to business organisations, I have found this process relatively straightforward, with customers delighted to benefit from the promotional aspects of...

The “New Normal” Calls for an Old Standard

Pretty much everyone associated with the US legal industry now understands what Barry Wolf, Executive Partner at Weil, Gotshal meant when he referred to the “new normal”—a surplus of legal services resulting from a downturn in business from large clients. The term “the new normal” has now become almost synonymous with AFAs (Alternative Fee Arrangements),...

Data Security for Data at Rest: Not an Issue with HotDocs Cloud Services

A recent survey published on LTN shows that law firm CIOs are becoming increasingly more concerned about data security (“2013 Am Law Tech Survey: Data Security Fears Rise”). While data security regarding cloud technologies has always been a concern, I for one believed such concerns would be in decline by late 2013, rather than on...

Risk and AFAs: a Perfect Storm for Law Firms

Today’s law firms face unprecedented risk coming from multiple directions. Compounding the risk problem is pressure on firms to implement AFAs (Alternative Fee Arrangements), a term which is often code for fixed-fee pricing. Independently, each of these trends presents a difficult problem. When combined, they represent a sort of perfect storm for legal practices. While...

Document Generation for BPM: The HotDocs/BPM Suite Connection

BPM (Business Process Management) is a hot topic these days because it offers adopters a structured technology path to improved efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

Building Interactive, Data-Gathering Forms for BPM-Defined Workflows

BPM suites provide functionality for building data-gathering forms within workflows. But some workflows, especially those that involve the generation of complex legal documents, require data-gathering forms that are more complex than what virtually any BPM suite can handle.

What’s Different about HotDocs?

With the variety of document generation products on the market, we get asked frequently, “What’s different about HotDocs?” There are several quick answers we could give, ranging from “we invented the concept of document generation” to “we have the most powerful platform available.” Just the same, a more detailed response is probably in order. The...