Legal Departments

Saving time on transactions pays big dividends

You’re getting squeezed.
Legal departments are under more pressure than ever. Compliance burdens pile up. Risks proliferate. Budgets stagnate. Everyone clamors for you to do more with less…and to do it faster.

Brightleaf accelerates your business cycles.
With Brightleaf’s Automated Word, your organization can draft accurate, fully compliant documents up to 80% faster. Your documents. Your familiar Word features and settings. But more accurate and much faster.

Streamline how frontline business people get first-rate documents. Publish Leaflet interviews from your automated forms, then deploy those Leaflets as self-service document generation portals. Easy to create and control, each Leaflet guides your Sales or Procurement or Development people through intuitive Q-&-A logic to complete, compliant documents in seconds. They close deals from their iPads in front of customers. You control the terms of those deals without having them clog your inbox.

Review and negotiate counterparty documents quickly and expertly
Most companies have language preferences for important provisions in common deal types. But negotiating that preferred language into counterparty documents isn’t always easy.

Brightleaf Playbooks load alongside and analyze the Word document you’re marking up, driving quick, thorough and effective negotiation. Playbooks use Interpreter to highlight worrisome language. Then they queue up your preferred alternative language, with usage tips and negotiation guidelines.

Big Data visibility into whatever size document data you have
Our Interpreter text analysis engine tunes to your document types, pulling data you specify and compiling that data into whatever format you prefer.

With Interpreter, you can create instant document abstracts and export them to your contract management systems or contract administration personnel. Whether you’re reviewing single, just-done deals so you can better manage them downstream or piles of existing deals you just uncovered or inherited, Brightleaf Abstracts provide you with much greater visibility into your documents.

On custom or ad hoc projects, our Legal Operations team can assist you with data analysis and language normalization.

Provide proactive, responsive service to your whole organization
Business gets done faster today. It’s an on-demand, instant gratification world. If it takes you 21 days to go from quote to close and it takes your competition 10 days, you lose market share. If delays push chunks of deal revenue out of this quarter and into next, your stock price dips. As markets tolerate friction less and less, companies double down on their efforts to reduce that friction.

That’s why legal departments need Brightleaf. Faster drafting. Faster, more effective negotiation. Much faster deal cycles. Enabling exquisitely controlled self-service document generation portals. Helping C-level executives see risks and opportunities better. With Brightleaf, your department can propel your company forward…while continuing to protect its backside.

Brightleaf Professional

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

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

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

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

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

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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Brightleaf for firms

Watch how progressive lawyers at top firms draft and edit more quickly and accurately.  Watch Now

Brightleaf for in-house

See legal departments accelerate their companies' business cycles and lower risks with Brightleaf. Watch Now

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

Brightleaf Professional

In less than three minutes, we show you how Brightleaf connects to your current desktop to supercharge your drafting and editing. Watch Now

Ease the Squeeze for EC/VCs

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