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Word LX™: How to Save Time Creating Legal Documents Without Compromising Quality
Legal document software that drives tangible benefits
From memos and briefs to contracts and complaints, creating legal documents plays an integral role in the success (or failure) of any attorney or law firm. The content used within legal correspondence is just the tip of the iceberg. Taking time to master the format, structure, and layout of these documents can quickly eat away a massive hole from your schedule.
How should you cite this source? Which font size do you select for footnotes? How do you decide which table goes in which document? Which numbering scheme should you use? These are just some of the questions asked while creating the typical memo – especially if you need to submit the document to the judge or share it with your client.
Word LX™ is a legal document software application designed to cater to these specific needs – drastically lightening the time-consuming load creating and formatting documents. This tool essentially enhances the standard Microsoft Word software package specifically for creating legal documents. Here are several ways that Word LX™ can save your firm time and money without compromising quality while increasing efficiency and productivity along the way.
No Need to Create Legal Documents from Scratch
Perhaps the most difficult part of creating any type of legal correspondence is drafting it from scratch. What do you do when facing a blank Microsoft Word document and a deadline that is quickly approaching? Where do you start? It is true that the Internet is filled with a growing number of resources, references, posts, and publications that can point you in the right direction. Instead of spending quality time researching those references, though, you can get the results that you need right away with Word LX™.
The American Bar Association recommends using the basic settings of Microsoft Word to replace variables within the document and identify any formatting or grammar issues. Installing Word LX™ basically transforms your Microsoft Word software into an efficient application specifically designed for formatting and creating legal documents at a high-quality. This document creation platform also doubles as a template management tool – allowing you to modify pre-made documents and basic templates to meet your specific needs.
In addition to the standard ribbon you normally see within Microsoft Word, Word LX™ provides you with an additional ribbon that gives you direct access to firm-branded documents and templates with just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks. You will no longer have to hunt through Word’s different tabs for tools you can’t find or spend countless hours searching through Help articles and FAQs with hopes of finding specific features. Virtually everything you need will already be laid out and easily accessible with this special ribbon.
Save Time to Reinvest into Your Productivity
Think about the amount of time you spend drafting, typing, editing and submitting legal correspondence. From interoffice memos and emails sent to your fellow associates and staff members to the official legal correspondence, you must file with courtroom clerks and present to clients, a substantial amount of your productivity time is allocated directly to legal writing.
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A 2016 survey showed that Word LX™ saved legal experts and staff members an average of 49 minutes each day. This includes everything from creating and formatting to editing and rewriting varying types of legal correspondence. Do the math, and you will notice this adds up to 23 8-hour workdays per employee. What can you accomplish professionally with an extra 184 hours each year? That is an average of over 15 hours each month per employee that you can put toward more profitable (and less mind-numbing) aspects of running and growing your law firm.
It may seem as if you are taking a risky shortcut by saving such a large chunk of time – a risk that inexperienced attorneys and growing firms hesitate to take as a result. The best part of using a template management and document creation tool like Word LX™ is that there is no risk involved. The pre-made templates serve as document foundations that you can quickly select, modify and print in a fraction of the time it would have taken to create the same document from scratch.
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Software Designed Specifically for Legal Writing
You can easily find legal writing templates online. There are even several legal letters and professional templates in the standard version of Microsoft Word. However, the limitations of those resources still require you to look elsewhere to get everything that you need – especially when you consider the vast number of correspondence types you use during any given week.
Word LX™ is a document creation software specifically designed for legal writing – a statement that cannot be made about many other resources, references or tools. Designed by Infoware, a company with over 30 years of experience in this industry, offers two different package options depending on the size of your firm to enhance document quality and increase efficiency while saving time and payroll:
Infoware has also released a popular document assembly tool (Word DA) and document repair solution (Word RT). Word LX™ allows you to experience the extended functionality of your word processing software that you have likely wanted for quite some time – including pre-set professional styles and legal-friendly numbering for those detailed, multi-level documents.
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Consistent Quality, Consistent Documents
Another lasting benefit of Word LX™ is the consistency that it allows you and your fellow associates to experience. You will no longer need to worry about one memo being formatted differently from another or one case file having a different structure from another. Word LX™ provides well-structured templates that your entire staff can use time after time. You will still need to endure the burdensome weight of editing and proofreading to ensure your reputation is not tarnished by poorly-developed correspondence. For instance, according to the Georgetown University Law Center, effective punctuation plays a vital role in the quality and development of any type of legal correspondence.
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There might be certain punctuation marks that slip through the cracks as you are modifying the template that you will need to address and resolve manually. However, you will save a considerable amount of time using a high-quality template – such as the options made available within Word LX™ – in the first place.