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TechnoLawyer’s “TL Answers” newsletter explains why HotDocs is the best choice for document building
In the May 3, 2012 edition of TechnoLawyer’s “TL Answers” newsletter, a woman who works for a corporate legal department asked TechnoLawyer a question about document building programs...
Visual Basic for Applications—the Wrong Tool for Document Automation
Circa the year 2000, I bought a copy of Microsoft Office 2000, which I used up until about three years ago, when I upgraded to Office 2007...
LegalTech West Coast: A Great Success!
LegalTech West Coast; The Westin Bonaventure Hotel; Los Angeles, California; May 22-23, 2012 We just returned from a fantastic show in sunny Los Angeles...
A Tale of Two RADs: Parallels in BPM Workflows and Document Automation Templates
At the core of BPM suites is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) workflow engine that enables the translation of real-world business processes into process-driven software applications, commonly referred to asworkflows...
Evolving Beyond VBA and VSTO to a True Document Assembly Platform
While large enterprises may follow any number of evolutionary paths towards the ultimate destination of industrial-gradedocument assembly(document automation), one of the most common includes a pit stop in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or possibly in Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), a more highly evolved Microsoft technology already in use in IT departments committed..
XML-Editors vs. HotDocs for Document Automation: It’s All About the Output
The predecessor to HotDocs was a technology called CAPS (Computer Automated Practice Systems), which was a comprehensive standalone solution that enabled the development of powerful, process-driven document automation (document assembly) systems, capable of managing every aspect of a law office’s practice...
Origins of Document Assembly
Document Assemblyis software technology that translates the practice of generating legal documentation into a process-driven software application...
Visual Basic Automation: The Wrong Approach for Document Generation
Visual Basic automationis a broad term that could refer to many aspects of Visual Basic programming or possibly to Visual Basic for Applications programming...