Guides

Rules-Based Automation or Generative AI: Which is Right for Your Law Practice

Generative AI and rules-based AI and automation will play a large role in the future of legal services. Read here to understand where to apply each in your law firm, and what software tools you should be aware of.

How to Automate California (CA) Judicial Council Forms in 2024

Use Gavel to Automate California Judicial Council Forms and Minimize Court Filing Rejections‍

Why the modern attorney needs to offer unbundled legal services.

The legal profession is modernizing, and legal tech is booming. One of the biggest changes in the past few years is the increased availability of unbundled legal services. Check out our list of everything you need to know about becoming an unbundled attorney before you get left behind by the competition.

Top 12 Best Document Automation Software - 2024 Breakdown

The best document automation software for you depends on what you want to do with your documents. If you’re a lawyer with clients, you need complex workflows. If you’re building processes for some internal enterprise, your needs are different.

Top 5 Best Legal Form Creation Software - 2024 Breakdown

Creating legal forms can be a tedious task. In this post, we break down the industry-leading legal form creation software options and what sets each one apart from the others.

Breakdown of the Best Software For Lawyers [Examples]

If you’re a lawyer looking to stay ahead of the technology curve, review our breakdown of what kinds of software you should consider adopting in your work. Try out our recommended software within each bucket.

Curated List of Best Software For Law Firms [2024]

Explore essential legal technologies for mid to large-sized law firms in this comprehensive guide. Learn about practice management software, document automation, billing, and more.

Legal User Design: Building User Personas for Your Law Firm Customer

To build a great legal product, you need to know your law firm's customer, their needs, motivations, fears and buying decisions. Build a user persona.

5 Ways Document Automation Can Help Sales Professionals

How sales teams can use document automation to automate statements of work (SOWs), contracts, and other documents in the process of selling to prospects.

Law Firm Guide to Marketing a Consumer Legal App

HelpSelf Legal built an online legal tool that got to 1,400 monthly active users in 3 months. Now, we share learnings on how to market a consumer legal app.

Getting Traffic and Conversions to Your Legal App

Jared Jaskot, founder of Jaskot.law, an immigrant-focused community law firm explains how to get traffic and conversions after you build your legal app.

When you can't automate, try outsourcing to freelance lawyers

LAWCLERK Co-founder Kristin Tyler tells us about outsourcing to freelance lawyers when you can't automate.

Building Legal Apps: Defining the Scope

How to define the scope of a legal product or tech product by starting small, thinking big, and iterating quickly based on your learnings.

Five Ways To Build A Custom Website For Your Document Automation App

Learn how to build a custom website for your document automation legal app

How to unlock and bulk rename PDF form fields

Learn how to unlock security-enabled or password-protected PDFs and bulk rename the fields automatically to match the active fields next to the field.

Intro to Legal Products & Pricing

Productizing is on the rise. Here are the market levers changing the future of legal service delivery.

Monetizing Legal Apps Through Alternative Fee Structures

The billable hour isn't the only way. Subscription models are hot right now. We cover the landscape of monetization options for an alternative practice.

No Code Form Automation

Form automation refers to software or web-based applications that allow small law firms, solo practitioners, and their clients to process and finalize all types of legal documents, from court documents to contracts to transactional filings.

The Secret Technology Tool for Attorneys Who are Tired of Typing

If you're like most attorneys, you spend a lot of time typing – emails to clients, briefs, pleadings, law firm administrative tasks, and more emails. Throughout all this typing, we are often repeating the same phrases over a day or week. But what if there was a way to save yourself from all that repetitive typing?

Ken Adams of Adams Drafting: Q&A with powerful document automation platform Gavel

Eight Legal Issues to Consider When Building Legal Products and Legal Applications

Is it legal information or is it legal advice? Here are eight considerations when building and launching your legal app.

Use Pro Bono as a Playground for Innovation With These 4 Tech Tools for Lawyers (Law.com and the Recorder)

Use Pro Bono as a Playground for Innovation With These 4 Tech Tools

The Ultimate Guide on How to Build Legal Products

Law firms are turning their services into legal products. This guide explains how to build an end-to-end legal product that drives efficiency for your firm and generates new forms of revenue, including defining your scope and audience and structuring new billing models.

Automating a Power of Attorney

Documater Tricia Duffin gives us the step by step process on how to automate a durable power of attorney for financial matters.

What tasks are right for client-facing RPA?

Legal Document Automation Guide

Law firms use document automation to rapidly draft and generate documents, including forms, agreements, letters, and other legal documents. In this guide, learn more about the benefits of law firm document automation, how to get started, features to look for in your software, and how to launch your document assembly tool in your law firm.

Launching Your Legal Product

Marketing and promoting your legal product is a crucial step of the process. We teach you how to test, market and gain credibility.

Top 3 Ways Legal Tech Can Reduce Non-Billable Work

Some tools have a greater impact on efficiency than others. I saw this firsthand when running my own firm, and these are the top three areas where legal tech can reduce wasted time.

Branding 101: How to Make Your Legal App Stand Out

How to market your legal product to make it stand out.

Converting Documents from Word Perfect to Microsoft Word

How to convert Word Perfect (WPD) documents into Microsoft Word (DOCX) documents

How to Build a Legal Intake App

Intake and document automation are the gateway drug to productization. Take the first step by building a tech tool to automate your intake and generate documents immediately.

Driving Profits From Documents That Clients Perceive As Complicated

Lawyers fear the use of technology could reduce profitability, but data shows lawyers can drive profits when clients perceive documents to be complex.

What is a Hard Refresh? How to do a Hard Refresh in Any Browser.

Jurisdiction Basics for the Legal App Marketplace

When choosing a legal app on the Marketplace, you need to know the jurisdiction for your legal matter. There is a lot of information out there, but we've summarized the basic information you need to understand and choose a jurisdiction.

Document Automation for Law Schools

Legal tech is the cornerstone of the future of law practice. If you’re an educator or student, we invite you to explore our series of exercises and tools, which law schools around the world have built into their core curricula.

Launching Your Own Law Practice

Launching your own legal practice can be exciting and scary. Read our basic tips to get started.

How to Land the Ideal In-House Counsel Client With Legal Tech

If you're a law firm partner looking to expand your client base, in-house counsel should be at the top of your list. After all, they control their company's legal spending and have the power to give you a steady stream of work. Here's what you need to know about what in-house counsel are looking for when hiring outside counsel.

Key Tips For Effective Content Marketing In The Legal Industry

Scott Stevens talks us through defining a content strategy for your law firm, with a focus on displaying your expertise and building trust.

What is document automation?

Document automation is the process of creating documents from a set of rules. If you can identify rules for the templates you draft using "if this" - "then that" statements, it will help generate error-free documents in a fraction of the time. Modern solutions like Gavel use AI to make your automation process seamless.

Law School Document Automation: Assignment 1

An assignment for legal tech courses teaching students about document automation.

AnyLaw CEO Steve Tover Tells Us Why Ignorance is Not Always Bliss

AnyLaw CEO Steve Tover explains how we can help solve the disconnect between the changing law and public awareness.

Master the Hand-Off: How to Effectively Outsource and Automate Routine Law Firm Tasks (Guest Post by Smith.ai)

Smith.ai's Kelsey Johnson explains how to automate and outsource to help enhance your legal practice.

How Three Female Legal Tech Founders Are Creating Solutions for the Legal Industry

The Portia Project podcast recently interviewed Dorna Moini (Documate), Nicole Clark (Trellis Research, Inc.), and Jacqueline Schafer (Clearbrief). Listen to learn how these three women took action to address problems in the legal industry, and how we can use legal tech moving forward.

Building Beautiful Guided Interviews

Build guided user interviews as the foundation for an expert systems, and provide clients with custom legal information for their unique needs.

Law Firms Need To Pay Attention To Their Privacy Policies Too

Technology is changing rapidly, so it is especially important for law firms to be vigilant in their privacy policies and retention of data received from their websites. If you have a publicly listed email address or a “contact us” form on your website, keep reading.

Building Legal Products Within the Ethics Rules

The demand for online legal services is huge. Before attorneys can offer their legal app online, they have to make sure the app complies with the ethical rules. Don't worry - we did the research for you! Read our latest white paper to see what steps you can take to stay in compliance with the rules.

Subscription Legal Services & How to Add Them To Your Law Firm

Subscription-based legal services allow you to offer ongoing resources to clients within a predictable business model. We cover how you can incorporate these into your law practice, success stories, and pitfalls you should consider.

7 Tips from TurboTax on How to Market Your Legal Tech Platform

As a legal professional turned legal tech entrepreneur, you’ve built an incredible piece of software that meets the needs of your customers. But no matter how perfect your product is, you need to convince your users to buy it by instilling immediate trust.

Gavel's Academic Program

Gavel's Academic Program empowers professors and students with the resources, support, and tools they need to keep pace with the training demands of the new tech-driven legal market.

The 12 Best Clio Integrations For Every Kind Of Lawyer - 2024 Breakdown

Looking for the best Clio integrations to scale your practice? Review our breakdown to discover which integrations will help you save time, better serve clients, and scale your practice. Try our top recommended Clio integrations within each bucket to help your small or solo firm grow more efficiently.