Template Document Packs: How Document Automation Boosts Productivity for Law Firms
Every practice is different, but if one thing is true across every firm in every area of law, it’s that attorneys produce an extraordinary number of documents. Arnold & Porter estimates that, over the course of a single year, the average attorney uses so much paper that the sheets would wrap around the Supreme Court Building 66 times if they were laid end-to-end. It is not for nothing that Franz Kafka once defined a lawyer as “a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a ‘brief.’” The legal profession as we know it was built on the written word.