ABA Law Technology Today Publishes First Article in Professional Infrastructure Series ABA Law Technology Today has published the first article in a four-part series from TheFormTool on legal technology, professional responsibility, and control. The article, “Expanding Fault Lines in Legal Technology,” examines a growing tension in legal technology: the profession’s increasing dependence on systems optimized…
Large forms suddenly slowed dramatically after recent Microsoft updates Here’s how to fix it. Several customers recently reported significantly slower form processing times following Microsoft updates to Word and Windows. The affected forms ranged from 12,000 words with 1,500 variables to 90,000 words with more than 2,400 variables. In some cases, processing times increased from…
The Lawyer-In-The-Loop (LITL™): The New Professional Standard for AI in Legal Work Why responsible AI in law requires a lawyer at the center—not the perimeter. Introduction For more than a century, every advance in legal technology—from dictation machines to computer-assisted research—has shifted how lawyers work, but never broached the essential question of who is responsible.…
AI Is a Tool. Judgment Is a Duty. AI can draft a clause; it can’t explain why it matters—or what it costs when it’s wrong. Our position is simple: every client deserves a Lawyer in the Loop™. We’re inviting Bar associations to partner on a 60-minute CLE: Evaluating AI for Legal Work—Ethics, Confidentiality, and Informed…
The Judge, the Machine, and the Missing Lawyer Why Mattox v. Product Innovations Research USA may mark the moment courts began defining Lawyer-in-the-Loop™. When federal judges invoke Rule 11(b), it’s never casual. That rule requires every lawyer who signs a pleading to certify that the filing rests on truth, evidence, and law—not invention. In Mattox…
When Word Loses Count: The Case for Sanity in Numbering We thought Microsoft was fixing numbering in Word. Five years later, we checked… and Word numbering is still broken. So we’re fixing it again, with Snapnumbers™. If you’ve ever tried to number paragraphs in Microsoft Word, you already know the symptoms: You apply numbers to…
The Human Advantage Why AI Still Needs Will Always Need a Supervisor Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming a fixture in legal drafting—from contract clauses to court filings. But as the tools evolve, a hard truth remains: AI doesn’t know what it’s saying. And it certainly doesn’t know what it means. Which is why lawyers—real lawyers—must…
Defining the Duty: AI Use and Informed Consent in Legal Practice The Illusion of Intelligence: Legal Risk in the Age of AI Executive Summary Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a fixture in legal technology, powering everything from drafting assistants to research tools. But its rise poses a foundational question: Can a machine that does not…
Most of us have seen thousands of articles on Artificial Intelligence. As always aspiring “experts” in document assembly and automation, we’ve been required to read far too many of them. Fair is fair, so we thought it would be interesting to ask the leading large language model AI what it thinks of the firms in…
Another Pro Bono Initiative We’re honored to support classes at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law with Doxserá® software for students. Whether assisting with legal education or providing tools to pro bono organizations, we’re committed to supporting the future of legal services. In fact, we’ve approved every pro bono request we’ve received…