The internet has become an integral part of our work, entertainment, and interactions with others. But last time you typed in a web address to access your email or social media of choice, did you think about how it all works? The web browser and applications you rely on daily impacts your speed, security, and overall experience—perhaps more than you know.
There are many benefits to becoming your own boss. Obviously, the potential for a higher income and not answering to higher ups are top of the list. You can decide what clients you take on, choose to specify in a certain area of the law, set your prices how you want, and you can build something from the ground up based on your values.
All that said, there are some changes you can expect when starting your own law firm. Once you take the leap, you’re no longer just a lawyer. You’re a business owner first and foremost. Which means your job now comes with all the business operations and tasks that keep your doors open (yes, that means business plans, cash flow forecasts, accounting and more!). You won’t be able to “just practice the law” anymore, and the growth of your law firm lies at your feet.
Woodpecker is thrilled to announce its new direct integration with MyCase, the leading legal case management software. MyCase was built specifically to support the workflows of law firms, and its user-friendly design is driven by the insights and feedback from the people who use MyCase daily. This new integration gives Woodpecker customers, who are also using MyCase, the ability to create client documents right in MyCase using Woodpecker templates and MyCase client data.
Legal document automation is a system or workflow that helps create electronic documents using data already collected. It is used to speed up the drafting process, so you can focus on activities that move the needle, reduce margin for human error, and maintain/increase profit margins.
In this essential guide, we’re going to walk you through what document automation is, the benefits for law firms like yours, how to choose the right software for you, and how to ensure the implementation is a success.
Many lawyers liken client interviews to a first date. Using the same analogy, in today's digital first world, you could compare a client interview form to an online dating profile. The interview form gives you information about a potential client before you meet them, and forms part of your intake process. It allows you to screen leads to see if they’re a good fit for your services, and ensure there are no conflicts.
In this article, we discuss the importance of high-quality interview form templates, how you can use them to streamline your client intake process, and what questions you should ask to enhance the customer experience.
It may not seem like creating a document or calendaring an event takes much time—but those tasks add up. In this article, we’ll share how to add more automation to your document workflows by connecting Woodpecker document automation and other applications, such as Outlook, using Zapier. It’s really easy to do, and when you add more automation, you’re able to handle more work with in less time with fewer errors, without tapping into valuable human capital.
Woodpecker is thrilled to announce its new direct integration with MyCase, the leading legal case management software. MyCase was built specifically to support the workflows of law firms, and its user-friendly design is driven by the insights and feedback from the people who use MyCase daily. This new integration gives Woodpecker customers, who are also using MyCase, the ability to create client documents right in MyCase using Woodpecker templates and MyCase client data.
Administrative tasks can take up 48% of an attorney’s time. Automated templates drastically reduce time spent on repetitive tasks so you can be more responsive to clients and log more billable work to increase the firm’s revenue.
The most logical place to start is a quick win to create momentum and speed up the shift from manual processes to automation. Generating invoices is one of those recurring, time-intensive, and sometimes repetitive tasks that can be quickly and can easily be automated with technology such as Woodpecker’s Word add-in.
Woodpecker founder and CEO, Alex Melehy, recently met with Bob Ambrogi as a guest on Bob’s How It Works series.
How It Works is a series of short, sponsored videos in which Bob, a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster, participates in hands-on product demos.
During the demos, Bob asks the questions he thinks his readers (lawyers) would ask, differentiating these demos from one might you watch on a website, or during a sales consultation, as they include a lawyer’s perspective.
Watch the video as Bob learns about Woodpecker’s document automation and how easy it is to set up an end-to-end workflow, using online intake forms that automatically create client documents.
Doom-and-gloom, “be afraid” headlines used by some legacy document automation companies get attention. But our customers – and the legal industry as a whole – are being driven by a higher purpose: to do better. To do better for their clients. To do better to compete as a firm. To do better for people in need. To do better, sometimes, for children who have nothing else.
At Woodpecker, our goal is to make your life better, to empower you to get back to what you actually enjoy doing and to what you do best. If we make your life better, all of our customers’ lives better, we will be a better company. You win, we win.
If only every document automation company believed in this idea too. But some don’t. They believe in making you afraid . . .
Manually producing paperwork is not only inefficient and error-prone—it prevents your firm from competing in the evolving legal marketplace. Whether you invest in a comprehensive document management system or opt for low-cost solution like Woodpecker, there are numerous reasons to standardize your legal documents with smart templates.
We work hard to ensure that we provide our users with the best legal document automation tool that we possibly can, and folks are taking notice! Zapier, has named Woodpecker the best free Microsoft Office add-in, and we're beyond excited to see that our efforts are getting attention.
There’s something eternally frustrating about non-standard, customer-facing documents in an organization—especially when you’re the one that has to deal with the confusion first hand.
