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Brightleaf connects you directly to the work your clients need to get done.
Tailor your automated forms for individual clients. Publish those forms to customized, branded client accounts. When you make it easy for clients to send you work, more clients send you more work.

Brightleaf also streamlines how you work with your colleagues.
Share documents during automated drafting in secure workspaces. Track progress. Annotate problems. Filter down to viewopen issues.

Precise workflows guide documents from initiation to completion.
Take deal notes during a client meeting and submit them for further drafting.  Specify high-level deal terms, then hand to an associate for completion.  Create tools for salespeople and other business professionals to request and receive legal documents.

Anywhere.  Anytime.  Any device.
Work anywhere, anytime, on any device. Our seamless, secure cloud platform and mobile Personal Accounts connects you with your clients and colleagues anywhere.

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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Venture Law Advisors

Innovative Denver firm uses Brightleaf to accelerate client success with Venture XPress. Download

Ease the Squeeze for EC/VCs

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

Law firm price pressures

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

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