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Automate your civil law practice with Gavel. Streamline client intake, generate demand letters and court documents faster, and improve accuracy across every case.
Easy intake and document automation to auto-populate your templates.
Navigating disputes between individuals or organizations requires you to practice tact and superior interpersonal skills, as well as knowledge of the law. One day, you may be dealing with a medical malpractice suit or breach of contract, and the next, you may be brushing up on your personal injury law, family law, libel and slander precedents, or tenants' rights. That can mean lots of time-consuming legal research.
That makes civil law ideal for legal document automation.
Gavel offers legal software that removes many administrative tasks that go hand-in-hand with legal practice, freeing you up to spend your billable hours working with clients and preparing for court. More than just document management software, Gavel allows you to generate workflows that automatically create documents you need for your civil law case. Gavel is changing the legal industry by using smart workflows to greatly reduce data entry tasks, allowing your law office to focus on improving the client experience.
Our automation software allows either you or your client to fill out a questionnaire customized to the needs of your case. A template tagged with the fields you’ve included in the workflow lets you automatically complete a document with the information you gather from your questionnaire. So, for example, with our automation tools, you can automatically gather a defendant's contact information and use it to generate a Summons or a Demand Letter. Once information is gathered, you only need to press a button to generate the necessary documents. This functionality lets you spend more time on client relationships and streamlines repetitive tasks so you can spend less time on document drafting.
A civil law case may require you to deal with many documents, including demand letters, settlement agreements, summonses, court motions, interrogatories, and appeal notices. Gavel's workflow automation makes it easier to produce all the documents you need and ensure your case details are accurate.
Gavel’s automation software performs many routine tasks in gathering client information and document drafting, freeing you to spend more time on more valuable legal work. However, this legal technology is about more than just speed. Using a single legal workflow to generate all the documents needed for your case reduces human error, helping cases move through the court faster and ultimately improving client satisfaction.
Gavel automation also helps standardize your work, reducing the risk of missing important clauses and ensuring all your clients get the same attention to detail and consistency. Automation also helps you lower operational costs, as you can handle more cases without hiring additional staff. Reduce the costs that come with errors and missed deadlines, and streamline:
Collect information quickly and accurately. Gavel's custom workflows ask your client the right questions to gather all the information you need, then automatically output it as useful legal work documents. Set up your questionnaire with explanations and embedded videos to guide your client. Use Gavel’s conditional logic only to ask the client questions about their situation. You only need to enter data once, streamlining your client intake and ensuring accuracy.
Speed up drafting. You can use existing templates or create new custom templates with Gavel to generate various output documents. Create custom templates for notices, settlement negotiation documents, contracts and agreements, discovery documents, pleadings, and anything else you need, and the information generated in the workflow will be transferred over to those documents seamlessly. Gavel’s Microsoft Word Add-in lets you tag where you want your documents to be auto-populated inside Word itself, so you don’t have to jump back and forth between different software. Also, our Blueprint artificial intelligence can read your templates and suggest questions for your questionnaire to guarantee you get all the information you need.
Improve client satisfaction. Gavel’s workflows allow you to incorporate guidance throughout the intake process. Explanation texts and info bubbles help your client understand the information you need, and you can even embed videos where deeper explanation is needed. Plus, you can use Gavel to generate informational documents that you can give clients as guides so that they have a better understanding of the legal process.
Increase revenue. Gavel also allows you to productize your legal offerings. For example, you could build online software for clients to create their demand letters and settlement agreements based on answers provided in a real-time workflow. This opens up a stream of passive income for your law firm, and also allows you to reach a whole new potential client base.
Gavel gives you:
Automation is one of the hottest legal trends right now, and Gavel has the features you need to automate your civil law practice:
Gavel’s automation capabilities have transformed the way hundreds of legal firms practice.
For example, Streeter Law Firm has used Gavel to create a streamlined customer intake process that helps clients generate an entire estate plan, from the engagement letter to the final documents, in around 30 minutes. The simplicity of the templates has also helped clients understand their estate planning, increasing customer satisfaction and leading to more referrals.
Hello Divorce has become one of the leading online divorce providers in the US by creating productized services on Gavel. The software allows clients to create their divorce plan online in minutes, not only generating revenue for the firm but also improving access to justice for clients who may not be able to afford traditional representation.
Studies show that Gavel can cut the time law firms spend drafting by up to 90%. Those significant time savings can then be used to improve client satisfaction and case outcomes.
Gavel’s features are ideal for the complex issues lawyers sometimes face when practicing civil law. Here are some of the ways Gavel can help.
I want to automate my client intake, but I don’t have time. Can I hire someone to build it for me?
Yes! We pride ourselves on easy-to-use software, but you also have access to Gavel document automators (“Gavel Experts”) who can help build your vision for you. Vetted for their expertise, critical thinking, quality, and efficiency, Gavel Expert rates start as low as $35/hour.
Does Gavel offer help throughout the building process?
Yes. Gavel’s award-winning customer team provides unlimited and speedy support for all customers. Contact Gavel via phone, live screenshare, email, or even via the Slack community for immediate support. Gavel also provides live training and a 24/7 knowledge center.
How secure is Gavel?
Security is our primary concern, given that we serve legal customers. All customers are set up on segregated encrypted databases. All data centers are managed in accordance with leading data security standards, including SOC 1 - 3, PCI DSS Level 1, and ISO 9001 / ISO 27001. Gavel regularly undergoes third-party security and penetration testing and is compliant with local privacy laws and regulations.
See gavel.io/security for more details.
I want to automate the creation of demand letters, but I don’t know how to start.. Where can I find premade forms?
Check out our No-Setup Automated Forms here. These can get you up and running on Gavel right away.
The complexity of civil law, with its demand for a wide variety of documents, makes it a perfect fit for automation. Start a free trial today and see how Gavel can save time and help you grow your practice while better serving your clients.
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