Scaling Expertise – Article 1 Every Firm Has One Person It Can’t Afford to Lose Every professional organization has one. The attorney everyone consults before filing an unusual motion. The partner who knows exactly how a complex transaction should be structured. The litigator who has refined an argument through years of experience. The assistant who…
How to Fix Word Numbering Problems in Long Documents If you’ve ever spent twenty minutes fixing paragraph numbering in a contract, only to have Word break it again after a copy-and-paste operation, you’re not alone. For many professionals, numbering problems are not a rare annoyance. They are a recurring part of working with long, structured…
Security Considerations in Document Automation, #4 This is the third of five articles in the Series Security Considerations in Document Automation Trust is your firm’s most valuable asset. Clients depend on you to protect their information—and to get every detail right. In today’s digital world, both security and accuracy are essential to maintaining that trust.…
From Hours to Minutes: How Smart Firms Turn Time Savings into Profit One firm’s story shows how document automation can deliver client value and higher returns—all in less time. For most lawyers, time is the currency of their work. Billable hours, flat fees, and client deadlines all revolve around it. But what if saving time…
Making Money Creating Documents for Others A growing number of our customers are generating revenues and significant income by using their libraries of forms to create on-demand private label documents for others. An example is an insurance firm that requires some of its documents to both bear its branding but also that they must be…
The Forecast It was in January, 2021 that we first forecast that inflation would need to total 35% over time to fully offset the amount of new paper currency printed to pay for the increase in federal spending that had accelerated the year before. Since then prices of typical baskets of goods have increased about…
$4,000 of Free Service? Yes, and worth every penny to us! Since its founding TheFormTool, LLC has offered 100% free service to all of its customers, even the thousands using only the free version of TheFormTool. Our team’s 10,000 service encounters have produced a 99.97% success rate solving the customer’s issue(s) and providing us with…
Smart or Slick? In our last newsletter we predicted that the effects of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) chat bots on the legal profession will be substantially less than the current hype. Last week, three researchers at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley reported that the “intelligence” demonstrated by leading large language model services (“artificial intelligence” agents, in this…
Whatever the perspective, whether as a professional, a consumer, an economist,there is insufficient value to continue the practice of hourly billing The reasons to avoid it are legion and persuasive, but for this audience the most telling argument is that working for an hourly wage prevents the accumulation of wealth while it encourages an excessive…
It was in January 2021, 18 months ago, that we first forecast massive inflation was coming our way created by runaway use of federal printing presses flooding the world with new paper dollars. Whether it is called “quantitative easing”or “printing money”, we predicted sudden and massive devaluing of the currency. In other words, inflation. Historic…