Add Real Christmas Cheer: Precision, Productivity, and the Tools Lawyers Deserve December tends to make lawyers reflective. Court calendars quiet down, inboxes slow just enough to allow thinking, and the year’s accumulated frustrations come into view: the documents that took too long, the numbering that fell apart at the worst time, the tools that promised…
Legal Privilege, Cloud AI and the Ethics Gap in Document Automation
Legal Privilege, Cloud AI and the Ethics Gap in Document Automation Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are increasingly being used by legal professionals for drafting, brainstorming, and research. An increasing number of document automation vendors in the legal industry are integrating generative AI or cloud-based services into their offerings. But these tools are not confidential—and…
Security Considerations in Document Automation, #2
This is the second of five articles in the Series Security Considerations in Document Automation Trust is your firm’s most valuable asset. Clients depend on you to protect their information—and to get every detail right. In today’s digital world, both security and accuracy are essential to maintaining that trust. This series explores how smarter document…
The Christmas Story
‘Twas the night before deadlines, when all through the firm ‘Twas the night before deadlines, when all through the firm, Not a paralegal was stirring, no late paperwork churn.The contracts were hung by the office with care, In hopes that TheFormTool PRO soon would be there;The attorneys nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of…
How to Help Brilliant People Shine in Your Law Firm’s Office
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…
Goodbye Microsoft Clipboard
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…
Lesson Plans
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…
Counties in the United States
We’ve added a downloadable Excel spreadsheet to the Community Treasure Chest section in the online Service Center. It is suitable as a Source for Doxserá DB, lists the 3,142 counties in the U.S. by state and shows the 2013 Census estimate of their populations. Click on the main menu’s Support>Help>Service Center at the top of…
Eight ways to stay up to date with new items at TheFormTool, LLC
News happens in real time. Here’s how to stay informed without being overwhelmed Thanks to our enthusiastic customers, now representing more than 40 countries and more than 200 truly fascinating industries, there seems to be something new to share almost weekly. Recently, merely keeping up with it all has been a royal chore, with hundreds…
We recommend you update to correct a significant bug
We’ve discovered a significant bug that was inadvertently introduced in versions 3.0 of TheFormTool PRO and Doxserá®. This bug causes Singular/Plural Fields that are based on Smart Answers that include Text With Pronoun ansers to produce incorrect results. We recommend that all users update their copies of TheFormTool PRO and Doxserá® as soon as possible.…