HotDocs vs. Doxserá: A Lawyer’s Guide to Choosing the Right Tool When it comes to document automation for legal professionals, two names often rise to the top: HotDocs and Doxserá. Both are powerful, both are respected—but they take very different approaches to solving the same problem: how to generate accurate, repeatable documents faster and more…
Pro Bono and the Guardianship Season It was 11 years ago that Jim Calloway, then as now Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program and Senior Guru of all things legal management, suggested that the soon-to-be formed TheFormTool, LLC seemed to be ideally structured to actively support consumer-oriented pro bono legal services firms.…
Why I changed from HotDocs to Doxserá 1. The pandemic! I made a decision that the two lawyers in our firm would work from home and our legal assistant would work in our office. We would not see clients face-to-face and we would only see each other by video. It was a good call because…
We were impressed with the accuracy and speed, the clarity and conciseness of the chatbot’s response, here in full (emphasis added for reading ease): “Doxserá offers several advantages over its competitors, including: Ease of use: Doxserá is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive, allowing users to quickly and easily create and customize their documents without…
. Our customers report that creating finished documents using our software takes 71% less time. What does that mean in practical terms? Productivity. Given that the average office spends 60% of its total labor expense on document creation, it means a huge opportunity to re-deploy resources more productively. It’s enlightening to run the math: multiply…
The newest version of Parallels is impressive; it allows the Windows system to transparently use Mac’s ancillary features, such as printers, Internet connectivity, audio and video. The real magic is the ease by which nearly all the Mac “homeyness” is made available.
The majority of our customers are happiest using a combination of menus and keystrokes, but “power users”, especially the very fastest, prefer hotkeys to do as much as possible while concentrating solely on the keyboard. Our friends at Affinity Consulting are a perfect example; with more than 20 years’ experience, they’re comfortable doing as much…
How to Help Brilliant People Shine in Your Firm’s Office Working in any office, there are hundreds of interruptions to distract you every day. The average worker is sidetracked every 3 minutes from the task at hand and checks emails 30 times an hour. That’s a lot of distraction. Then there’s the time spent looking…
Microsoft Word is a huge program seemingly offering something for everyone and every circumstance. It has grown so large, in fact, that we believe it is becoming musclebound, less able to perform basic functions even as its features list grows. Six months ago we began collecting reports of infrequent and seemingly random failures affecting a…
Introducing Video Demonstrations of Lessons in the Expert Guide Many of TheFormTool’s users are already familiar with the online version of The Learning Curve, a tutorial for learning to become truly proficient with our software. The Learning Curve is divided into four sections—In the Beginning, Basics, Intermediate, and Advanced—and we strongly urge any user who intends…