The answers to the following questions may be helpful. Drafting forms and documents is an important and necessary part of the practice of law. It is essential that legal professionals have the ability to complete forms quickly and accurately. Law offices currently preparing their forms by hand, by typewriter, or even by word processor will find it much faster and much easier to draft forms using document automation technology. With document automation, users are truly leveraging time with technology.
Users select a document they wish to draft or a form they wish to fill.
A well designed document automation program will automate gender and pronoun occurrences, include or exclude text or paragraphs based on conditional or logical statements, create multiple choice options, and perform mathematical calculations. Once all user information is entered, the form is assembled. During assembly, user information is formatted, then merged with the text of the form to create a single document. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the case and client information is saved for future use with other forms requiring the same information. The true advantage comes from the substantial reduction in time users spend entering and formatting repetitive information.