Gavel vs. Clio Draft (formerly LawYaw): The Clear Winner in Powerful Document Automation
Gavel gives you more robust document automation capability combined with customizable client-facing features.
“We were able to do an entire estate plan in 30 minutes. I was running around the office telling everyone about how magical Gavel is.”
Jessica Streeter, Partner at Streeter Law Firm
Advanced Logic
Gavel's conditional logic supports complex rules and exceptions, improving accuracy.
Repeating Items
Only Gavel supports repeating "lists" of items, which are critical for most legal automation.
Client-Facing Functionality
Send secure intake links where clients can enter and save their data in a secure portal.
Clio Manage Integration
Gavel lets you automate with Clio fields. Voted 'Best Integration' by Clio.
Practice at the top of your law
license. Automate the rest.
Gavel makes drafting even your most complex documents simple. Our powerful automation reduces time spent on document drafting and client intake by 90%, letting you focus on practicing law.
Save Time
Creating an estate planning packet reportedly takes around six hours. Use one of Gavel’s templates or automate your own to save 90% of the time spent drafting.
Increase Accuracy
Gavel eliminates common drafting mistakes with advanced logic that ensures correct clauses, automatic formatting, dynamic calculations, and date handling.
Delight Clients
Make client intake effortless with secure, branded questionnaires. Gavel’s client intake portal allows clients to input data that can directly fill your documents.
Gavel
Clio Draft (formerly LawYaw)
Advanced Logic
Powerful logic (and/or & if/then), plus numerical and date calculations
Advanced Logic
Only if/then logic
Repeating Items
Repeating Items
Client-Facing
Intake forms and secure portal
Client-Facing
Clio Integration
Award-winning #1 integration
Clio Integration
Sold separately from Clio
Ease of Use
Ease of Use
Zapier Integration
Zapier Integration
Templating Service
Starts at $35/hr
Templating Service
Starts at $75/hr
Public API
Public API
Customer Support
Email, phone, screenshare
Customer Support
Email only
Pricing
Word and PDF automation
Pricing
Word automation only
Docusign Integration
Docusign Integration
Customer Ratings
4.7 Lawyerist, Top 10 on Capterra
Customer Ratings
4.4 Lawyerist, < Top 10 on Capterra