A smarter, more efficient bankruptcy law practice

Whether you're dealing with commercial bankruptcies or personal declarations of bankruptcy, bankruptcy can be a complex law practice area where precision is paramount, and details are key. With the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) reporting that bankruptcy filings across all chapters have increased from 2023 to 2024, it is also a good time for bankruptcy lawyers to ensure that their practice is as efficient and accurate as it can be. 

Gavel can revolutionize your bankruptcy practice. Gavel is a document generation and client onboarding software platform that frees your law firm from routine paperwork and allows you to focus on the often complex details of bankruptcy cases. Using Gavel, bankruptcy attorneys can automate the bankruptcy process and focus on strategizing ways to get your client through bankruptcy as efficiently as possible and get that fresh start.

Specifically, Gavel is a software platform that allows lawyers to build questionnaires (also called “workflows”) that, when answered, auto-fill the appropriate form or template. These customized questionnaires can be completed by the lawyer or client, as lawyers can embed legal guidance, videos, and explanations within them. A completed questionnaire is then one click away from being a fully completed legal work product. In this way, lawyers can use Gavel to “build a Turbotax” for their bankruptcy practice and monetize their work at scale. In short? 

Gavel empowers legal professionals to resolve bankruptcy issues and guide clients through commercial and consumer bankruptcy, including Chapter 11, Chapter 7, and Chapter 13 bankruptcies.

Let's take a look at how Gavel can change the game for bankruptcy law firms.

Bankruptcy law can be extremely complex, with some very exacting documentation requirements. Even experts in bankruptcy law and practice can sometimes make mistakes in this area of the law. Getting everything right and done efficiently can be extremely time-consuming.

Before you can go to bankruptcy court, you need to collect a mountain of facts from your client. Additionally, keeping track of creditor information, calculations regarding liabilities and asset values, and drafting and filing all the necessary required forms means there is ample room for error when not utilizing automation. 

Building an intake form on Gavel that already has the relevant questions (like the client’s name, the client’s date of birth, employment information, creditor names, and creditor addresses) ensures that important questions don’t get left behind. It also ensures that there are fewer unnecessary follow-ups from missed questions and that you can get a head start on the legal research you may need to do from issue spotting the completed intake questionnaire. Explanations, info bubbles, and videos can also be embedded in each questionnaire to provide additional context to your clients for questions that require a little extra hand-holding. Though data collection and data entry like this is often considered an administrative task, good bankruptcy attorneys know that getting an accurate picture of a client’s financial status and starting point is important. 

Using numerical calculation functions within automating software, like Gavel, can also help calculate accurate amounts your client owes based on inputted values and assist in double-checking such calculations. This is helpful not just in drafting filings but also when answering questions the presiding bankruptcy judge may have about the presented numbers. 

Automating your bankruptcy practice is also the first line of defense to ensure you file all the necessary paperwork when initiating, continuing, or concluding a bankruptcy proceeding. When building the questionnaires on Gavel, you can have one questionnaire auto-populate several output documents.  For example, if you are initiating a Chapter 11 filing, you can ensure that your questionnaire autopopulates the necessary Forms: 201, 204, 201A, and more.  Repetitive information that needs to be inputted can further be pulled from a single response in the questionnaire, cutting down opportunities for typos and errors.  

Gavel provides:

Gavel is designed to streamline your bankruptcy law practice, reduce the workload on you, your paralegals, and other stakeholders in your law firm, and provide a better client experience.
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Gavel has helped many law firms eliminate routine work from their practice, and we have the testimonials to prove it.

Like bankruptcy law, estate planning can get complicated.  Automating a sophisticated practice means the software needs to be up for the challenge. Jessica Streeter of Streeter Law Firm has used Gavel to create a client service process that guides her clients from the engagement letter right through to the final deliverables.“I was so thrilled… I was running around telling everyone about how magical it is!” Streeter says of how Gavel was able to reduce the time taken to create an entire estate plan down to less than 30 minutes.

Other firms have been able to dramatically cut down the time they spend on client intake and document generation, allowing them to focus on more advanced legal services, client relations, and company growth. Gavel can do the same for your bankruptcy law practice.

Gavel’s automated document creation and streamlined client onboarding make practicing bankruptcy law easier than ever. Here are some ways to use our platform:

Automation can transform your bankruptcy law practice, but when you're looking for something more powerful than the usual legal practice management software, consider a platform that offers these features:

Gavel can significantly reduce your time spent on routine work while also increasing accuracy in your bankruptcy law practice. Gavel helps your law firm improve efficiency while reducing time-consuming paperwork.

Using Gavel can make your firm more efficient and your clients more satisfied with your services. Book a free trial to see how Gavel can change the way you practice bankruptcy law.