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This free calculator estimates how many hours and dollars a law firm saves each month and year by automating its most repeated documents. Enter your monthly volume for each document type; the drafting times and percentage reductions are prefilled from Gavel's study of 50 corporate, estate planning and family law firms, and every number can be changed.
The drafting times come from Gavel's study of 50 law firms, which recorded time per document before and after the firms built the document in Gavel Workflows. Across the four document types in the study, automation removed between 83 and 90 percent of drafting time. The engagement letter row uses the Litson PLLC case study, where engagement letters that took 3 to 4 hours now take minutes.
The calculator does not include the time to build each automated template. For a firm's own documents that is typically a one-time project of a few hours per template, after which every subsequent document reuses it. It also does not count the follow-on savings from client intake forms feeding the documents directly, which the Litson case study measured as a 90 percent reduction in time from lead to client.
If the hours saved per year are small, automation is probably not your first project; look at intake or contract review instead. If they are large, start with the single row that contributes most. The Gavel Workflows page explains how a template is built, and the legal template library has prebuilt templates for estate planning, family law and business formation documents.
In Gavel's study of 50 firms, automation cut drafting time by 83 to 90 percent depending on the document: an estate planning packet went from about 6 hours to 45 minutes, and an employment agreement from about 50 minutes to 5 minutes. Your result depends on your volume and starting times, which is what this calculator estimates.
No. It reports hours saved and their value at the rate you enter. Gavel Workflows plans are listed on the pricing page, so you can compare the annual value against the annual subscription.
No. The calculator runs in your browser and makes no network requests. Reloading the page resets it to the defaults.
The ones you produce most often with the most repeated structure: engagement letters, estate planning packets, uncontested divorce filings, entity formation sets and standard employment agreements. The row with the highest hours saved per month in the calculator is usually the right first template.
