Legal professionals spend too much of their billable time creating, proofreading, and reviewing documents. 79% of lawyers spend more than five hours per week going through documents and contracts to ensure quality and accuracy.
Most legal professionals use technology to assist them in document drafting. While these tools may do one part of the job, they are usually point solutions that cannot be tailored to the legal industry or do not integrate with the current technology stack of law firms and corporate legal departments. That is not the case with Litera Desktop.
Litera Desktop provides a unified drafting experience that spans the entire document lifecycle within one Microsoft Word ribbon. The solution allows legal professionals to:
- Quickly create legal documents with ready-to-use templates and accurate clauses
- Proofread and revise for consistency and structure
- Compare multiple versions and address collaborator comments
- Scrub embarrassing metadata before sharing with external parties
- Securely transfer large files and send encrypted messages
- Streamline PDF workflows to ensure efficiency and security
Litera Desktop empowers legal professionals to draft faster by 85%, deliver documents that meet firm standards, decrease write-downs and write-offs, and enhance client satisfaction.
Here are three additional reasons you should consider Litera Desktop as your next document drafting solution.
Spend Less Time Switching Between Tools and Solutions
Litera Desktop allows legal professionals to access the tools and solutions they need from within Microsoft Word. Once deployed, users will see an additional ribbon in MS Word from which they can access tools to create, proofread, review, and compare documents and share them with others via email or save them as PDF files.
Integrating MS Word – the most used word processor in legal – means that legal professionals don't have to switch between various tools to draft a document; it's all in one place. Instead of interrupting their workflow to go to another tool to find the correct clause, copy it, and paste it into the document, they search their content library in MS Word and drag and drop clauses into the desired place. Legal professionals can also find and correct errors within the document – spelling, grammar, definitions, etc. – with one click of a button and compare revised versions of any document within MS Word.
This functionality saves legal professionals time and effort, streamlining document drafting and freeing up time to focus on actual legal work instead of going from one solution to another to draft a document.
A Complete Document Drafting Workflow
Most point solutions that law firms and corporate legal departments deploy address one aspect of the drafting workflow. One solution might help you proofread your document, but then you must use another to compare versions; worse still – manually!
Litera Desktop integrates with Microsoft Word to cover the entire drafting workflow, giving you all the capabilities of multiple best-of-breed products:
- Litera Create: a document assembly and content library platform that brings together Content Companion, Innova, Forte, and MacPac
- Litera Check: a document proofreading and review solution comprised of Contract Companion, DocXtools Companion, and Litigation Companion
- DocXtools: an advanced document repair solution for styling and repairing documents
- Litera Compare: a document comparison solution that accurately detects changes between two documents in seconds
- Metadact: a metadata cleaning and attachment management solution so you always send clean documents to the right people
- Litera SecureShare: an encrypted file transfer and messaging solution for sharing large files quickly and securely
- pdfDocs: a PDF management application that enables legal professionals to create, edit, redact, and secure PDF documents
Litera Desktop provides legal professionals with all the tools they need to create first to final drafts, i.e., the entire document drafting lifecycle.
Easy Maintenance for IT Teams
Legal professionals are not the only ones struggling with multiple-point solutions. IT teams must look through multiple solutions to select an appropriate one, align with various technology vendors for deployment, and then manage numerous tools for tracking updates and maintenance. This takes time, effort, and resources, which could be used to improve the technology infrastructure and tighten security.
Litera Desktop covers the entire drafting workflow, so IT teams only have to manage one solution from a reputable vendor. This decreases the time spent on maintenance and updates, giving them time and resources for other important and innovative projects.
Curious to learn more about Litera Desktop? Watch our latest webinar or request a demo with one of our experts to see it in action!
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