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Case Study: Document Automation at PwC

PwC onboarded over 2,500 active users. More than 50 automated templates. 53 automated offices and over 30 automated territories.PwC onboarded over...

Impressions from Legito Conference 2020

Despite the challenges, or in some instances, due to them, this year’s conference proved a success, with hard hitting content that was not only i...

Independent Document Automation Tool Survey: Top Score For Legito

Last summer, Legito was invited to participate in the Legal Document Automation Tool Survey, an independent study conducted by the Informatics...

Implementing Legito – who to pick / who to avoid

You need the right person to make your implementation successful. Here are some traits that make a good project representative. Someone happy to pi...

Is it the right time to invest in automation?

It used to be said: “Better, cheaper, faster – pick any two.” Now we can improve all three vectors at the same time. Historically, organisati...

5 Things I Learned from Document Automation Events

Chances are there aren’t many people in your organisation with a focus on automation of document-centric business processes. It can seem like a l...

Self-service for shared service centres

I worry that ‘self-service’ sounds like something negative – probably because we have suffered from self-service checkouts in retail outlets ...

Sharing document automation know-how with industry peers

The extra pressure of deploying new technology to new colleagues was non-trivial. I taught myself how to use the application while doing the day jo...

Two strategies driving automation

Naturally, we think there are lots of reasons to adopt a document lifecycle management solution, even if you only use a few of the core features. S...

Contracts and leverage

Organisations need leverage to grow, and so do people. Like it or not, some organisations use contracts to exert leverage. If you’re a smaller or...

Contracts and contract management: what does good look like?

Legito isn’t just for contracts or legal teams, but today we look at best practices in contracts and contract management. Everybody is looking fo...

Drafting a Word document -v- drafting a Legito template

Let’s look at the difference between drafting a conventional Word document and drafting a document automation template using Legito (for others t...

6 Tips and opportunities for new lawyers

Qualifying as a lawyer is a tough gig. University and law school courses create a legacy of student debt, and good organizations have stiff competi...

Charging clients for automated solutions

In 2008, I started a law firm in the UK with the principal objective of leveraging my experience of document automation for clients in B2B software...

Alternative fee arrangements – Making them work outside litigation

This is for the lawyers, those in law firms, and those working in corporate legal teams. I don’t need to provide an introduction

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Contract drafting isn’t taught at law school

Contract drafting is not taught on most law degrees or at law school. Most lawyers learn during a period of apprenticeship

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7 Reasons why you need a clause library, but Word doesn’t help you

Contracts (and some other documents) typically include standard text like confidentiality clauses, limitations of liability,

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7 signs you’ve got a problem – Add some style to your work

Years ago, organisations started to move from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word. Law firms were reluctant to change, but

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Sales playbooks using Legito

A sales ‘playbook’ sets the rules for sales execs. Sales teams need flexibility to negotiate deals, but the playbook avoids

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Process Management

We usually say Legito is for document automation or contract lifecycle management (CLM), but you can do more.

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Hearts and minds – getting colleagues to use document automation

My first document automation deployment was for a sales team of 70 people who would use the system to generate…

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AI or automation?

Artificial intelligence creates more buzz and more speculation than plain old automation. Vendors claim AI…

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Legito CLM – what is it?

Creating the first version of a document is just the beginning. It might need to be approved, discussed, and signed…

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Switching to a more modern solution – is it worth it?

Most people are sceptics when they see a technology solution that promises to make things better. But, if you haven’t looked at a modern solution...

Webinar: Walkthrough from Document to Finished Product

We are confident that Legito’s no-code tools make working quicker and easier, but why not judge for yourself?Here we take a master template in MS...

Document automation in business process management

Legal teams used to be the significant users of document automation, so much of the published writing is about automating contracts and legal docum...

Moving on from document automation

Our CEO said it’s like going to a restaurant with a big menu: we don’t expect you to eat everything on the menu, but we know you will want to t...

A shout out to Alex Hamilton’s article: The System Strikes Back

Here I am, writing content for document automation and CLM solution vendor, calling attention to Alex Hamilton’s article that asserts that contra...

Charles Drayson – Interaction is the Precursor to Action

The Legito PowerUp conference in June is all about inspiration, interaction and action. After almost two years working from home, I’m looking for...

Smart document automation and CLM – how does it work in the real world

Some organisations have a market position that allows them to standardise and automate their end-to-end sales, HR or just about any other business ...

There’s no convincing some people

“Science doesn’t care about your opinions.” The scientific method has created a way to elicit truth free of bias and prejudices that would ot...

Webinar: What’s new in Legito

We welcomed a big audience to our webinar reviewing the new features in Legito. For those unable to watch it live, you can watch the full webinar r...

A guide to the core features of document automation

If you’ve never seen or used a document automation tool, except maybe for a product demonstration, this article is for you

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2021 Legito Webinar Series

Starting with an overview of Legito’s All-In-On Smart Document Workspace, you will see how Legito not only automates document drafting and assem...

Legito Webinar: Sharing expertise automation solutions with clients (co-hosting Radius Law)

We talk to the innovative law firm, Radius Law, about clients directly using services powered by automation. Putting technology in the hands of...

Document automation: if it’s so good, why isn’t everyone using it?

Here’s a situation you might recognise: an organisation sells a range of services that need different contract terms. Customers might buy more th...

Webinar: Using Legito to Drive your Documents co-hosting Aber Law Firm

Legito was delighted to have our co-host and special guest Jeremy Aber from Aber Law Firm. Jeremy discussed how Aber Law's software licensing...

Webinar: Introduction to Legito’s Brand New Smart Document Drafting

President of Legito North America, Mark Settle, hosts our latest webinar, presenting Legito's new user interface and showcasing the latest...

Implementing document automation: a few unexpected benefits

Here’s a situation you might recognise: an organisation sells a range of services that need different contract terms. Customers might buy more th...

Calculate Your Automation’s Return On Investment (ROI)

Buying software for your organization - be it a multinational, Fortune 500 company , or an SME - is never easy, and often involves months of work,...

Webinar, Document Automation at PwC

Our recent webinar on Document Automation at PwC, hosted by Gary Eunson, Legito’s Chief Revenue Officers, features Ian Emond, Executive Director of...

How to buy Document Automation Software

Automation - or document automation/assembly is the process of automating the process of creating a document - be it a contract, a form, a proposal,...

Democratizing Enterprise Contracts

Automation as a tool for reducing bottlenecks with In-House Legal and other teams Most companies sell a product or service to generate revenue. Of...

April 2022 Release: Workflow for Objects, Bulk Replacement and more

Announcing Legito’s April release, with some powerful enhancements to the template editor and workflow tools, including Workflows for Objects...

March 2022 Release: Six Document Automation Enhancements

In addition to the existing text options, it is also possible to add options that will refer to texts added to different Elements, typically to Tex...

February 2022 Release: CLM Enhancements and Other Improvements

1) Counter Widget for Dashboard The Widget counter gives our users a brief overview of overall performance and outstanding tasks. The widget...

January 2022 Release: New Notifications And Five Other Features

1) New Notifications In-app and Email notifications can be triggered by the following events: Change Document Owner Document Sharing Document...

December 2021 Release: Customizable Dashboard And Nine Other Features

1) Fully Customizable Dashboard New Dashboard is the flagship of Legito’s December (2021) release. The best thing about the new Dashboard is that it...

November 2021 Release: Editing Third Party Documents Online And More

1) Embedded web version of Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint Thanks to our partnership with Microsoft, it is possible to edit Word, Excel, and...

October 2021 Release #2: Brand New Version of Smart Document Drafting

This release took document drafting experience to the next level. We heavily redesigned our document editor based on feedback we received from you -...

October 2021 Release: Combining PDFs and Auto-generating of System Names

The October release brings three new features, and a beta release of another. We start with one that corporate lawyers will particularly like: you...

September 2021 Release: Merge table cells, Repeated Elements, and more

This week, we’re bringing you four new features, requested by our customers. Taken together, they are designed to make document assembly even...

August 2021 Release: Objects integration and more

1) Footnotes and Endnotes It’s now possible to insert Footnotes and Endnotes to the most element types in an Automated Template. If the Element with...

July 2021 Release #2: Objects

1) Objects Legito Objects exponentially increase your CLM automating power. Operations, Legal, Procurement, Sourcing, Human Resources, and Sales...

July 2021 Release #1: New Features For Automated Templates

1) Switcher Element and Related Condition We have added a new Element, “Switcher”. The Switcher Element is similar to a Button. It is not exported...

June 2021 Release: Context Menus and Other Template Editor Enhancements

1) Pop-up Context Menus for Template Editor Going forward, Clauses, Elements, Conditions, Repeats, and formatting options can be added using a...

May 2021 Release: New Workflow and Template Editor Features

1) Assigning Users selected in the Properties to Approval lists We’ve added a major new component to our suite of no-coding contract lifecycle...

April 2021 Release: Document Editor Redesign And Attachments

1) Document Editor Redesign We have improved the automated drafting user experience by giving Document Editor a facelift. The improvements are more...

March 2021 Release: The Next Generation Legito Template Editor

We listened to your feedback, and after over a year of excruciatingly long days -and many, many late nights fueled by pizza and sencha matcha tea,...

February 2021 Release #2: Workflow Enhancements

We added the following Workflow Stage properties that determine what users can do with Documents in the selected Stage:
Download document: ...

February 2021 Release: Legito Templates, Workspace Billing section

1) Improved Word Document Conversion to Legito Templates The import is now much more precise and can capture more a larger universe of formatting...

January 2021 Release: Kanban View; Track Changes; Real Time Collaborative Drafting; and More

Our first release of 2021 brings seven new feature enhancements that not only make it easier to collaborate on documents and track key data, but...

Release December 2020: Push API (Webhooks) And New REST API Version

1) Push API - Webhooks Legito’s Push API now enables your application’s web server (webhook listener) to receive instantaneous automated messages...

Educa Case study: Contract Management in the Education sector serving multiple organisations

Educa examines technological developments and links them to quality improvements in compulsory education (primary and lower secondary level).

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Case Study: International Law Firm boosts LegalTech Credentials

Gómez-Pinzón, a Bogotá, Colombia-based law firm, and an Affinitas Alliance member, distinguishes itself from its peers by providing respected...

Case Study: Document Lifecycle Automation For LegalOps And Procurement In E-commerce Giant

Kiwi.com is a global online travel tech company. Through its online portal, Kiwi.com provides a fare aggregator, metasearch engine, and booking...

Case Study: Document Automation at PwC

PwC onboarded over 2,500 active users. More than 50 automated templates. 53 automated offices and over 30 automated territories.PwC onboarded over...

Case Study: Document Automation In Real Estate Agency

Fincentrum Reality, a real estate company of the Fincentrum & Swiss Life Select, has approximately 150 real estate brokers and 3 in-house...

Luigi Cominelli: Technology is a Lawyer’s Friend, not Their Enemy

Luigi Cominelli is not only an Associate Professor of Sociology and Negotiation at the University ofMilan Law School, but also the Knowledge Manager...

Legito Legal Disruptors 2020: Teodora Bobcheva from ScaleFocus, Legito Use Case

Teodora Bobcheva, an attorney at fast growing Forbes magazine recognized ScaleFocus provided an in-depth analysis and clear description of how...

Case Study: Contract Automation for Procurement Department at a Retail Company

One of the largest E-commerce retail companies in South America.Distributor of over 300 fashion brands.Member of the Global Fashion...

David Lat: Founder Of Above the Law

David Lat: Founder Of Above the Law David Lat: Founder Of Above the LawAbout David David Lat is a Managing Director in the New York office of...

Mark A. Cohen: Legal Pioneer And Disruptor

Mark A. Cohen: Legal Pioneer And DisruptorAbout Mark Mark A. Cohen has been a legal pioneer and disruptor for over 4 decades. After a distinguished...

Executing a successful product vision: An Interview with Karina Brandauer

Karina Brandauer is a Product Manager at LexisNexis in Vienna, Austria. Focusing primarily on providing innovative tools and solutions, Karina’s...

Partnerships in Implementing Change: An Interview with Filip Ivanov

Partnerships in Implementing Change: An Interview with Filip IvanovAbout Filip A hands-on automation strategist with experience in business...

Communicating Ideas in LegalTech: Interview with Ray DeSouza

Communicating Ideas in LegalTech: An Interview with Ray Desouza About Ray Ray has spent nearly 20 years working in the litigation, copyrights and...

Case Study: Implementation Of Document Automation In International Law Firm

Kinstellar is an international law firm operating in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia. The firm employs more than 250 lawyers,...

Supporting Lawyers through Tech: Interview with Roman Kaczynski

Supporting Lawyers via Tech: Interview with Roman KaczynskiAbout Roman Roman Kaczynski is a lawyer practicing both French and Polish law. Bilingual,...

Facilitating Law to People Through Tech Tools: An Interview with Andres Felipe Laserna

Andres Felipe Laserna is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and Legal Tech fan. He is currently a Partner and Director of Innovation and Technology at L&B...

Case Study: Automation Of Legal Ops in Fast Growing Global Company

ScaleFocus is a technology, R&D, and advanced engineering company operating in the USA and Europe. Name: ScaleFocus Website:...

Legal Ops Automation: Interview with Teodora Bobcheva

Teodora Bobcheva is an attorney-at-law for with more than 7 year experience. She started in a law firm as an intern at the beginning of her second...

Women of Legal Tech: Interview with Kamile Kliukiene

Women of Legal Tech: Interview with Kamile KliukieneAbout Kamile Kamile is a lawyer and for the past 4 years she has been building her legal tech...

Interview with Petra Arends-Paltzer: Swiss Legal Tech 2018

Dr. iur. Petra Arends-Paltzer is an experienced banker and lawyer. In cooperation with leading Legal & Tax-Regulation + FinTech companies, Legal...

Legito Legal Distrubtors

Despite the challenges, or in some instances, due to them, the conference proved a success, with hard-hitting content that was not only interesting...

Charles Drayson joins Legito as Chief Community Officer

London, United Kingdom, 19 October 2021 — Legito, the smart document workplace company that deploys document automation to thousands of users, has...

Our ISO/IEC 27001 certificate has arrived!

We are happy to announce that we have been approved by Lloyd’s Register of London to the rigorous international standards for security and quality...

Deloitte partners with Legito to offer document lifecycle automation solutions

Bucharest, 20 April 2021 – Deloitte Romania and Reff & Associates | Deloitte Legal concluded a partnership with Legito, the leading legal-tech...

Mark Settle Appointed As President of Legito North America

Atlanta, Georgia USA, 9 March 2021 -- Legito, global leader in Automated Document Assembly and Lifecycle Management, today announced the appointment...

Summary and Plan for 2021

This year was without a doubt a difficult year for all of us. The global pandemic forced the entire world to adapt and innovate in order to maintain...

Gary Eunson Appointed As New Chief Sales Officer

Edinburg, United Kingdom, 7 September 2020 -- Legito, global leader in Automated Document Assembly and Lifecycle Management, today announced the...

People Of Legito: Jakub Ludwig

At first, I was working for Legito as a subcontractor through a web development agency, but the product was so awesome, in contrast to the projects...

Gartner Digital Markets Awards Legito

These results left us speechless. Based on users' reviews, we received from Gartner Digital Markets the following awards: These results...

Legito Remote Workspaces

Legito has always maintained flexible work arrangements. After necessary restrictions were put in place in order to protect the people, and slow...

Summary of 2019

Phew! The last 12 months have been quite a ride! We doubled our team and overcame many obstacles and challenges to reach our 2019 goals. Although it...

Regional Marketplace Manager – Latin America & Spain For Bogotá Office

About Legito Legito is one of the World's hottest legal-tech companies. Currently, we have over 120 000 users in 50 countries. Among our clients are...

Happy to be part of weXelerate

Happy to be part of weXelerate. WeXelerate is a startup & innovation hub with a unique and thriving ecosystem of open innovation on nearly 9000...

Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a term used to describe a company’s efforts to maximize their positive impact on communities. Realizing...

Legito opens its gates

Dear friends, It has been two years since our start-up was born. After two years of development we succeeded in developing Legito Editor for cust...

First Year

This week we’ll celebrate our two year anniversary since our founding. Personally, I prefer to write about future plans, but I’ve found some n...

Web Summit 2014: How to move half a year ahead in just three days

Over 65 thousand tweets, 1300 start-ups, one thousand journalists and 22 thousand participants from 100 different countries. Legito participated in...