What is Brightleaf?

Next-generation document automation platform.

see Brightleaf in action
Home: What is Brightleaf?

Brightleaf is a next-generation, cloud-based legal document automation platform that accelerates your deal cycles, freeing you to focus on high-value work.  Unless of course, you enjoy formatting signature blocks and staying up until 11pm night after night re-working a 15 document package to accommodate another round of last minute deal changes.

The Brightleaf platform reduces the number of hours lawyers spend on drafting deal documents and enhances the productivity of lawyers and staff.  You get transactions done far more efficiently, on your paper, with improved accuracy and a greater focus on the deal-making work that led us to become lawyers in the first place – the work that clients value most.

And Brightleaf allows you, your colleagues, and your clients to easily interact and collaborate on documents over the Internet – using desktops, laptops, tablets and other mobile devices – multiplying efficiency, improving workflow, and giving clients more ways, and more reasons, to work with you.

Automate, draft, collaborate. Brightleaf makes it easy and affordable!

automate easily

Brightleaf Professional

by Luke O’Brien on October 18, 2012

A quick (2:45) video overview of the automated-Word/desktop version of Brightleaf's legal document automation platform in action. Focuses on document authoring (contract drafting/contract assembly) and automated document editing/revisioning (Clause Library).

×

Law firm price pressures

by Luke O’Brien on October 16, 2012

Clients clamoring for alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). Increasing demands to write-down billable hours and write-off associate work. Margins squeezed by lower-cost competitors These days, law firms and the lawyers who work there face mounting pressure to reduce prices and cost inefficiencies. This e-book surveys the factors behind this trend and focuses on some legal document automation tools firms can adopt to relieve those pressures.

×

Ease the Squeeze for EC/VCs

by Luke O’Brien on October 16, 2012

Emerging companies need more legal help than they can pay for. Emerging companies practices need more start-up clients than they have time to take on. And competition among lawyers for this start-up, formation, seed financing, angel investment, and venture capital work is more fierce than ever. This e-book examines how EC/VC practices leverage legal document automation to harvest more start-up clients and handle more early-stage and venture work.

×

Foley & Lardner, LLP

by Luke O’Brien on October 2, 2012

Foley Lardner LLP may well be the most technologically astute law firm in the AmLaw 50. Information Week has named them a Technology Innovator for seven consecutive years. They aggressively pursue and heavily invest in systems and strategies that align them more closely with client values. The case study examines how Foley Lardner LLP uses legal document automation across practices to further that legacy of innovation and service.

×

Venture Law Advisors

by Luke O’Brien on October 1, 2012

Legal document automation. Flexible, customizable client extranet tools. Online document generators. Collaborative contract assembly workflows. These things aren't just for large firms. This case study outlines how one Denver boutique--Venture Law Advisors--leverages Brightleaf to improve client service, consistency, and capacity.

×

Foundry Group “I’m a VC” Digital Short

by Luke O’Brien on September 1, 2012

Hummer Windblad meets Color Me Badd, with twice the funk and half the fashion sense. Clearly, this is not your average VC firm. And THAT's a definite maybe.

×
Ease the Squeeze for EC/VCs

Emerging Company & Venture Capital practices automate and do more client work more quickly. Download

Foley & Lardner, LLP

Tech-savvy AmLaw 50 firm uses Brightleaf across multiple practices. Download

Law firm price pressures

Document automation turns client price pressures to firm's advantage. Download

AmLaw 50 firms get much more efficient

Cooley. Foley & Lardner.
Pillsbury. Top-tier firms like these drive deals and profits with Brightleaf.