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WELCOME
We are experts at automating Microsoft Word for Canadian
lawyers and law offices. We take pride in our ingenuity and proven ability to deliver affordable,
high-quality solutions to meet the complex requirements of the legal profession.
Our clients range in size from sole practitioners to large national law firms.
We are interested in helping you define and achieve goals to maximize
your firm's computer technology investment.
Our current focus is Microsoft Word 2010. We continue to automate and
support earlier versions of Word, and WordPerfect, for existing clients
requiring that service.
CONSULTING SERVICES
The scope of our legal document automation projects ranges considerably.
We provide consulting services to plan the entire Microsoft Word 2010
upgrade and/or conversion from WordPerfect. We also provide custom
programming and development services to automate specific tasks.
A specific task may be something as simple as developing a single automated
Word template with macros, form fields or content controls, or something
as involved as a custom, practice-specific legal document assembly
system.
Our service starts with us collaborating with your people to define
your goals and create an automation and/or conversion plan. As necessary,
we coach your people during the planning phase to enable you to make
design decisions from an informed perspective. Although our goal is
to leave you independent from us between projects, our service does
not stop after your production release. We build long-term business
relationships with our clients.
OUR PRODUCTS
Your document automation solutions may include one or more of our highly
customizable software applications:
- Adaugeo™ Macro Package for Microsoft
Word
A collection of Word macros and Word templates for efficient production
of legal documents and correspondence.
If you are now planning an upgrade to Word 2010, you may be looking
at considerable expense in consulting fees to migrate custom Word macros
and toolbars to the new Word ribbon interface. Depending on the complexity
of your existing environment, you may find that implementing our macro
package (already Word 2010 compatible and ribbon-enabled) is more cost
effective than paying an hourly consulting rate to upgrade your existing
solutions.
Our macro package is highly customizable via database settings and
INI keys. System administrators need not be familiar with macro programming
or XML coding to perform routine systems maintenance.
See our Word Macros page for details.
- Adaugeo™ Numbering Software
An extensive suite of tools for creating, applying and managing numbered
styles for legal documents.
See our Legal
Numbering page for details.
Adaugeo™ Numbering forms part of our basic macro package, and we
also offer it as a separate application for firms with pre-existing
macro packages.
- Practice-Specific Legal Document Assembly Applications
We offer practice specific document assembly for British Columbia
litigation and residential conveyancing. See our Document
Assembly page for details.
Those applications are semi-custom – we provide the assembly engine,
the document coding language, and the data collection interface,
but we do not provide precedents. You supply the precedents and we code
them to your exact requirements.
We can suggest options for you to disburse the cost to your clients
on a per-matter basis.
Firms using our litigation and/or conveyancing packages may also
opt to license the document assembly engine for their own custom
systems.
WORD TRAINING
We provide Microsoft Word training services to supplement our consulting
services and software. We find that firms can better maximize their
technology investments when the software developers are involved
in the training. For small firms, we deliver the Word training ourselves.
For large firms, we assist with training program development and
training the trainers.
Due to advances in web conferencing software over the past number
of years, we find that clients prefer to minimize their costs and
IT time commitments by utilizing those tools whenever possible. We
now do most of our administrator training and “train-the-trainer” training
by web conference.
End user training for medium and large firms must be done at your
site. Our smaller clients (1 to 20 user sites) have reduced their
total implementation costs substantially by opting for on-line training
for end users. We find that, in small groups, the end user training
via web is more effective than the classroom setting. We take a maximum
of three users per session for end-user web training in order that
each user’s individual
needs may be addressed.
DOCUMENT AUTOMATION IN THE LEGAL OFFICE
Your Firm's reasons for developing Microsoft Word may include:
- Maintain your existing productivity levels after upgrading
to the new Word 2010 ribbon interface.
While new Microsoft Word ribbon interface is truly a desktop
publisher’s
dream, it does present challenges for lawyers and legal support
staff as to quickly accessing the basic features required for
efficient legal document production.
- Let lawyers who do their own word processing focus
on the words rather than the process,
- increase accuracy with practice-specific
automated legal document assembly software,
- improve the user-friendliness of
the native software
- quickly and easily generate legal documents
and correspondence that meet firm standards,
- reduce
your staff ratios and/or overtime expense,
- reduce training
requirements by automating complicated tasks,
- encourage
your users to apply the Microsoft Word features in a way that
promotes document stability,
- enhance
workgroup productivity by adopting
standards for Word templates and styles, and making it easy for
users to follow those standards,
- importantly, avoid unnecessary
maintenance overhead that can result from developing a shared
environment strictly with the native features.
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