DirectLaw™ Web Service for Lawyers

Introduction
The DirectLaw™ Web Service: How It Can Work for Your Law Practice
Forms Licensing Program
Law Firm Web Sites Powered by Rapidocs®
More About Rapidocs Technology
Strategy Approaches for Law Firms

Introduction

We are interested in helping lawyers, particularly solo and small law firms, automate their law practice in order to increase their productivity. We believe that automation, especially the offering of legal services over the Internet, can help attorneys serve a broader range of clients; particularly moderate income clients who cannot afford high legal fees. We are committed to the concept of making legal services affordable and accessible through concepts and techniques like "unbundling", "fixed fee billing", "document automation and management", "client extranets", "web-based advisory systems", "digital legal applications", "expert systems", "content or knowledge systems" and other tools and management techniques that streamline law practice.

Unlike other document automation systems, Rapidocs® was built from the ground up as a tool to be used by consumers directly, as distinguished from a document automation tool for lawyers. As a result, Rapidocs® is very easy to use and deploy, and is cross-platform. Rapidocs® templates can be used as a Windows application, or delivered on the Web using our ActiveX or Java technology. Rapidocs® has been selected by Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., International, Thompson's UK subsidiary, as the automation platform for the "White Book." The "White Book" is the major legal forms software publication licensed to solicitors in the United Kingdom for use in their law practice. [Click for Press Release ]. Thus, Rapidocs® has matured from a consumer-oriented document assembly system into a fully featured application that can be used within a law firm or corporate legal department.

DirectLaw™Web Service: How It Can Work For Your Law Practice

In launching our DirectLaw™ Web Service, we decided that law firms could also benefit from a low-cost document automation solution that would not require a high capital investment in R&D or complicated programming on the part of the law firm. Programming a document automation system is not the best use of an attorney's time. Thus, the service offered by this web site is available for law firm use on the same low-cost basis that we use to provide our forms to the public, even though we know that law firms can mark-up the cost of our document products to a much higher price point, largely because attorneys provide a value-added service.

The web-based legal forms service can augment the forms you already have in your law firm library. You can also use this site to generate those forms that are high volume forms in your practice, without investing in software or expensive custom programming. With the DirectLaw™ Web Service, your clients can complete online questionnaires, resulting in instant form creation, ready for your review. Using our DirectLaw™ Web Service is like having access to a paralegal without the cost.

Forms Licensing Program

If you have a state-specific version of a legal form that is better than we offer, we are also interested in licensing legal form content from you, depending on demand for the document. Our license fee is 3% of document sales, based on either our retail price or wholesale price, depending on which web site it is sold from. For information about our licensing program, contact us . At the present time we are interested in licensing state-specific forms for Child Support Petitions, Child Support Modification and Step-Parent Adoption.

Also, if you want us to automate one of the forms that you use regularly in your practice, we will consider automating the forms for you at low cost if we can market your form through one of our retail distribution channels. The cost of licensing the form content from your firm will offset the cost of any custom automation that apply to your particular form.

DirectLaw™ Web Service Subscription Package

We will create either an entire web site or create a back-end for your existing web site. We are interested in helping law firms offer automated legal documents to clients that are bundled with legal advice for a fixed price.

More About Rapidocs®

Document assembly can be a very powerful toll for increasing law firm productivity. Whether used on the work station within the office or over the Web to enable clients to assemble their documents, automation can expedite the document drafting process. Time is money. The advantage of using our document assembly program is that the Rapidocs® software, through an intuitive question and answer process, collects all the necessary information for your document. An answer only needs to be given once to enter it into the document however many times it is needed.

Rapidocs® document assembly software is used to automate documents and forms in this web site.  Assembly of a legal document is easy. You simply input the data that your customer provides to you either directly into the computer, or you have the option of giving your customer a paper questionnaire, which they can complete on their own time and return to you. Upon receipt of the completed client questionnaire, you simply input the client's data into the computer and the legal document is created. You can further customize the document, by editing the document within Rapidocs® using the built-in word processor. You can also export the assembled document to MS Word for further editing. You can archive your assembled documents within your personal WorkSpace™ and it will be linked to the client for whom it was generated.

To learn more about the entire range of Rapidocs® technologies, click here or contact us.