Directlaw.com Company Blog - Developments in Virtual Lawyering

You can create new fixed fee or "unbundled" legal services using DirectLaw. You can also create fixed fee legal services based on your own legal documents, as distinguished from documents automated in Rapidocs and provided to you as part of your DirectLaw subscription. 

Case management, document management or automation, e-billing, SaaS, e-discovery, mobile apps, virtual law office.  This is just a starting list of legal technology that promises a better, faster, and more efficient law practice.  It’s enough to make your head spin.

For years some law firms, but not all, have used some form of document automation in their law offices. Ranging from an MS Word macro to long standing programs such as HotDocs, as well as automated forms distributed by legal publishers such as Willmaker by Nolo, some law offices have incorporated some form of document automation in their law practices. Document automation of legal documents that are generated in high quantity by a law firm is an indispensable process for increasing law firm productivity and maintaining profit margins in an era of intense competition.