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DocStoc Redux

By Doug ⋅ December 6, 2007 ⋅ One comment

A few weeks ago I posted my review of DocStoc, a user generated community where you can find and share professional documents. My biggest complaint was that it was full of amateurish information and copywritten materials. DocStoc was sponsoring a contest for who could post the most documents. There was a flood of documents. One [...]

DocStoc Disaster

By Doug ⋅ November 14, 2007 ⋅ Please Leave a Comment

I saw DocStoc a few weeks ago and dismissed it. It seems to gathered a little more traction since the post by Matt Homann on the [non]billable hour: A You-Tube for Legal Docs? Check out DocStock. Matt calls it the “You-Tube of legal documents.” I think that it a correct assessment since I found it [...]

Document Assembly Update and Problems

By Doug ⋅ November 14, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Document assembly is a powerful tool that we are starting to deploy across my firm. Document assembly is a wonderful and powerful knowledge management tool. We recently deployed HotDocs Server. I found the desktop version of HotDocs to be powerful, but a pain in the neck to install, maintain and train attorneys on how to [...]

Wikis and Legal Agreements

By Doug ⋅ October 15, 2007 ⋅ One comment

With my current fascination with wikis, I wondered if you could use one to draft a legal agreement. No, I thought. That’s just crazy. Well someone is crazier than me. Tractis.com has set up a library of legal agreements, using wikis to draft them. They have also layered on document management and signature tracking. Like [...]

Real-Time Document Collaboration

By Doug ⋅ June 8, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Are lawyers ready for real-time document collaboration? Brett Burney thinks they are: Time for Lawyers to Collaborate in Real Time. I do not agree. Drafting documents in a transaction is much more about negotiation than collaboration. I want to control drafting and control a negotiation posture. Mr. Burney mentions using WebEx and other online meetings [...]

Disrupting conventional law firm business models using document assembly

By Doug ⋅ March 12, 2007 ⋅ Please Leave a Comment

Darryl Mountain published an article on document assembly Disrupting conventional law firm business models using document assembly in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology. He identifies three barriers to the adoption of document assembly: 1. Shortage of Right People, 2. Inadequate Capital and 3. Rules against the Unauthorized Practice of law. Although his [...]