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Discover how business law firms—especially small and solo practices—can boost efficiency, accuracy, and profits with legal document automation. Learn how Gavel streamlines client intake, contract drafting, and complex workflows without any coding required.
Easy intake and document automation to auto-populate your templates.
Business law is an important area of law, even for law firms in other fields. Running a legal practice requires you to understand how business law affects your own firm, after all.
Business law includes many different areas, such as employment law, contract law, tax law, business litigation, commercial transactions, intellectual property rights, bankruptcy, consumer protection, and more. That means legal professionals operating in this area need a broad base of experience and expertise. It also means serving clients that range from small startups to giant corporations.
Several specific challenges come with business law. You need to keep up with constantly changing laws and regulations across various business areas and jurisdictions, including corporate law, intellectual property, tax law, and employment law. Clients need quick turnaround times, clear client communication, and cost-effective legal solutions, even when dealing with complex issues. Additionally, you need to effectively communicate complex legal concepts to clients from many different backgrounds, who may have a limited understanding of the law.
With all this, you need to accurately draft and negotiate contracts to protect your clients’ interests and mitigate risks. That’s why business law is an area of law that can benefit greatly from the use of redline software and document automation tools.
Operating a business law firm means dealing with extensive documentation, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, partnership agreements, employment agreements, nondisclosure agreements, sales contracts, business licenses, and more. Your document management practices need to be top-notch, and if you're not careful, document creation and completion can suck up hours of your time. Gavel allows you to streamline these time-consuming, repetitive tasks—reducing human error and allowing you to spend more billable hours on improving the client experience.
Gavel is a software platform that allows you to build workflows that simplify client intake and document generation. Our automation software lets you tag a document template with the fields you’ll need for gathering information. Those fields are incorporated in a questionnaire that either you or the client can complete, reducing the time you spend inputting the same information across multiple documents. You can include legal guidance through info bubbles, explanations, and even videos inside your workflows to help clients complete the questionnaire correctly. Once completed, the workflow is one click away from generating a fully completed legal work product.
Gavel also lets you build custom solutions to scale and monetize your legal services. You can productize legal services like shareholder agreement drafting or employment contracts, creating a source of passive income and enhancing profitability.
Business law firm automation helps ensure contracts, agreements, and other documents are automatically filled out with perfect accuracy, so you can spend more time working with your clients on their requirements.
When drafting shareholder agreements, employee handbooks, nondisclosure employment agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and other documents, accuracy is everything. Often, creating and maintaining a business requires huge amounts of documentation, and when copying the same information from one form to another, it's easy for human error to creep in. Gavel’s automation solutions can perform these routine tasks for you, taking human error out of the equation and freeing up more time to spend on client relationships.
Gavel’s automated systems can help you quickly and accurately create:
Streamline client intake with custom workflows and logic-based questionnaires. You can fill these out yourself based on information the client gives you, or you can have the client fill them out themselves. Info bubbles and videos can guide your client through the process to make sure that all information is accurate and nothing is missed. Accuracy and consistency are the key to generating enforceable business documents, and Gavel helps you achieve this accuracy and consistency while simplifying basic administrative tasks.
Speed up drafting by using custom templates to create the forms you need. You can use existing forms or templates to provide the necessary clauses and language, then customize them based on the answers provided in the workflow. With the MS Word add-in, you can set conditions for specific documents, right in Word. For example, if answers in the workflow demonstrate that there is more than one investor in the company, you can set the workflow to ask for details about each investor and display a paragraph specifying the number of investors in the generated documents. Your workflow will only ask for (or show) extra information if it’s needed, making it more streamlined and easy for clients to complete and for you to ensure the final document reflects your legal expertise.
Gavel also uses advancements in artificial intelligence to make our automation software even more powerful. Our Blueprint AI tool can scan your existing PDFs and Word files to figure out what fields you will need for your workflow. This makes data entry easier and removes more mundane tasks and manual processes for your team members.
Produce all necessary documents simultaneously by specifying the output documents for each workflow. Gavel can generate specific documents depending on the answers provided in the workflow. Our custom templates can use conditional logic to add clauses in paragraphs based on answers given by the client. For example, a sole proprietorship doesn't need a partnership agreement, while a multi-member LLC might. Likewise, a limited company will require a shareholder agreement, while a private company may not. Gavel can add paragraphs and clauses you have already created to agreements based on the answers provided in the workflow, making sure that nothing is missed and that you have all the necessary legal terms for each different kind of document.
Improve client understanding and satisfaction by incorporating guidance and advice right into your intake process. You can create info bubbles and explanations or even videos that can guide the client through the workflow and explain why you need the information you do. Plus, you can use Gavel to create informational output documents that will explain key aspects of business law so that your client can stay informed in this sometimes complex practice area.
Generate revenue through productized legal services. You can create templates for common business documents like nondisclosure agreements, contractor agreements, service agreements, discovery letters, and many other business law documents. These documents can be customized with your law firm branding and color scheme and provided to clients online, creating a stream of passive revenue through legal workflow automation and expanding your client base.
Gavel gives you:
Gavel’s features make it ideal for your business law practice:
Gavel has revolutionized the legal industry by changing how law firms handle client onboarding, data entry, and drafting.
Studies show that Gavel can save up to 90% of the time you spend generating legal documents. That means your legal team can spend less time on repetitive drafting and focus on higher-value legal work, including managing client relationships.
Emessay used Gavel to create a DIY tool that allows small businesses to create their nondisclosure agreements, contractor agreements, discovery letters, service agreements, and employee new hire letters, among others. These custom-generated documents make it easier for small businesses to get started in their industry and remain in compliance with the law at the same time.
Canadian law firm Counselurdocs has been able to cut the time spent drafting shareholder agreements by 50%. Their product, built on Gavel, allows clients to create their own shareholder agreements and helps law firms train junior associates to draft business law agreements.
Gavel’s streamlined client intake, client guidance, automated document generation, and conditional logic features make it perfect for automating your business law practice. Here's how you can use it:
My client intake process works fine. Why automate it now?
Automation lets you:
Automation can save you huge amounts of time and reduce the data entry burden on your law firm.
Does Gavel offer help throughout the building process?
Yes. Gavel’s award-winning customer team provides unlimited and speedy support for all customers, regardless of their subscription plan. You can 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.
Do I need any technical background to build on Gavel?
No! Gavel is designed to be easy to use, even for people who have never tried automation software before. And if you do run into trouble, you can access real-time support from our customer service team.
How secure is Gavel?
As a platform designed to serve the legal industry, security is our primary concern. 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.
Business law demands accuracy and attention to detail across multiple document types. That makes it a field ideal for document automation. Remove human error and increase client satisfaction by automating your client onboarding and drafting processes.
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