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Legal document automation is essential to improve the traditional workflow of lawyers. Businesses are spending a huge budget to automate legal documents and improves productivity.<\/p>\n

Each time you establish a business relationship with a purchaser or supplier, you definitely want to document the rights and obligations of both parties. This ensures that both sides are on the same page when it comes to payments, timelines, and other deliverables. The same goes for every time you hire a new employee<\/a> or rent out your office space to a new tenant.<\/p>\n

But are you spending more time than necessary on legal administration?<\/strong> There are many legal documents that you may use regularly for managing business relationships; and the need to repeatedly <\/span>draft, check and edit documents can take up a significant slice of your time, especially for a fast-growing business. Not to mention you may be prone to make careless mistakes hence subjecting your business to unwanted risk.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Automate<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Did you know that it is possible to automate the process of putting together legal documentation?  <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Here are 4 key reasons why you should automate legal documents for your business:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Improve accuracy. <\/b>Document automation software ensures that any information you insert later is accurate, consistent, and in all the right places. <\/span>Built-in controls can make sure important details are not overlooked, or inconsistent answers entered. Certain mathematical calculations, or dates, can be calculated automatically reducing the risk of human error.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Reduce external legal spend. <\/b>With document automation, you can quickly and effortlessly come up with a first draft of the document on your own, before seeking professional advice from a lawyer who reviews your document.<\/li>\n
  3. Make full use of the precedents you have invested in.<\/b> We know that your document templates usually contain a lot of balloon comments, footnotes, or inline guidance which users have to delete, [along with the square brackets] and highlighting<\/mark>. Instead of having to scroll through a document painstakingly to make sure that all the fields have been correctly filled out, automating your frequently used precedents will make them simpler to use.<\/li>\n
  4. Improve efficiency & lower cost. <\/b>With document automation you can produce documents at 10 times the rate, particularly if you generate multiple documents from a single questionnaire or are just pulling in information from other systems. <\/span>If you have split your precedents into different versions (e.g. IT and non-IT services agreements), automation allows you to bring them back together so you have only one document to maintain. You can choose which version you want from a question, and all the relevant differences can be inserted or removed. If you change your mind later, you can come back and change the answer, and all the changes will flow through \u2013 there’s no need to start again with a fresh document.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    Source: LawHawk<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

    \"Employment<\/a><\/p>\n

    Document automation technology such as Zegal Document automation helps you produce legal documents 10x faster, keeps them accurate and consistent, and contain built-in controls to ensure <\/em>important details are not overlooked or entered inconsistently.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Start managing your legal needs with Zegal today.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Here are 3 types of documents that your business should consider automating:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    <\/span>1) Agreements for the supply of goods and services<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

    This is the core of your business and it is not a surprise that many companies would have multiple precedents in this area (e.g. long form\/short form, buyer\/customer\/balanced, IT\/Non-IT). Automation allows you to combine all these into a single document with questions that control which options are included. By having a menu of options the deal with issues such as intellectual property (IP) ownership, limitations of liability, and insurance, you can give your employees the flexibility to deal with the typical negotiation points that will come up. <\/span><\/p>\n

    Agreements that we recommend you automate include:- <\/span><\/p>\n