Docs After Dark John Federico, Jeff Schoenberger, & Danielle DavisRoe

This month, Jeff, John, and Danielle discuss the advancements made in HotDocs Advance and how to convert templates from HotDocs Classic. John introduces the team to Bigle Legal, a web-based document automation system desgined to support multiple languages. Industry news includes some exciting enhancements to TheFormTool's Aurora and Woodpecker.

Back by popular demand, Alex Melehy and Helen Coyne from Woodpecker join Jeff, John, and Danielle this month. Alex and Helen tell us about some of the wonderful new features they've added to the product, including page breaks and external questionnaires; how they use agile development practices to implement new features quickly; and how they train their clients to become automation wizrds in no time. Customarily, our guests provide our document fact, and Helen did not disappoint. We think it's the best one yet!

This month Jeff, John, and Danielle are joined by Judie Rahman, client solutions manager at BigHand. After covering document assembly news, including John's appearance at ILTACON regarding document assembly and artificial intelligence (see the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRbn05ZR_uc), we bring Judie "onstage" and discuss BigHand's document production tools and how they've helped customers during COVID-19. Judie talks us through how document production has changed for legal professionals during the pandemic, how BigHand's offerings help employees focus and minimize distractions while working remotely, and how to optimize your document lifecycle from dictation to digital draft to delivery of work product. And, most importantly, how to get staffers up to speed on new technology in a challenging environment.

Ep 026 - Excel at Xpressing Yourself by John Federico, Jeff Schoenberger, & Danielle DavisRoe