Automated document generation with any level of complexity, in a fraction of the time, significantly reduces your drafting time while increasing accuracy.
Secure, centralized data storage
Gather and organize financial data and case details with a customized intake process, then draw on that data from any document or workflow to reduce errors.
Build efficient processes
Create powerful workflows to replace any repeatable external or internal system, so you can reroute your time to serving clients and growing your practice.
Because we serve customers in the legal field, security is paramount to us. All customers are set up on segregated encrypted databases. All data centers where information is stored are managed in accordance with leading data security standards, including SOC 1 - 3, PCI DSS Level 1, and ISO 9001 / ISO 27001. Gavel regularly undergoes third-party security and penetration testing and is compliant with local privacy laws and regulations.
I already draft letters, pleadings and agreements using a firm template. Why should I automate my documents instead of using CTRL+F to replace terms in an existing template?
Reduction of Errors. A template can make things faster, but sometimes, going faster just means making more mistakes. Misspell a client or creditor's name or miss a decimal place of an amount owing or paid, and you can cause problems for yourself down the line. Gavel reduces errors by taking information from a single source and copying it to all the relevant paperwork it creates. Clio Manage and other integrations allow attorneys to pull directly from the master database into templates to further reduce errors. Enter your information once, and you never have to worry about copying it wrong again.
Teaching Moments for Junior Associates. When training Junior Associates, Gavel can act as a powerful teaching aid. The platform's dynamic workflows help Junior Associates understand what a bankruptcy case requires and ensure that nothing is left out.
Minimal Review. Gavel’s accuracy means you can input relevant information just once and then auto-populate to a variety of different legal products. With few errors upfront, that ensures flawless accuracy in your bankruptcy filings.
Do I need any technical background to build on Gavel?
No. Gavel is designed for lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals rather than coders and programmers. Our intuitive software makes it easy to build your own automation, and support is never far away.
Does Gavel offer help throughout the building process?
Yes. Gavel’s award winning customer team provides unlimited and speedy support for all customers, regardless of the subscription plan. Contact Gavel via phone, live screenshare, email at [email protected] or even via the Slack community for immediate support.
Gavel also provides live training and a 24/7 learning center with lesson topics and guides for various aspects of your practice and examples of how other practices and industries are using Gavel.
How much does it cost?
Subscriptions start at $83/mo with a free trial. See what plan is right for you here.
How to Automate Your 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.
Why Automate Bankruptcy Law?
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:
Comprehensive intake capabilities that can auto-populate different templates and forms
Multiple output documents per questionnaire
Calculation functions that allow attorneys to calculate, double check, and quickly explain numbers in a filing
Gavel Features for Bankruptcy Law
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.
Streamlined Client Onboarding: Intake clients through a custom questionnaire to gather all the information you need. You can use info bubbles or even embedded videos to guide your clients through the questionnaire, ensuring accuracy and completeness right from the very beginning of the process.
Numerical Calculations. Accuracy with numbers is essential to a bankruptcy case. Gavel can calculate the numerical value for a field based on the entries in previous fields, ensuring accuracy and saving time.
Conditional Paragraphs: These paragraphs populate the underlying template depending on the answers given. For example, if a client answers ‘yes’ to the question ‘Did you have a premarital agreement?’, you could set the workflow to add a paragraph referencing the agreement in the underlying template.
AI-Enabled Processes: Our award-winning AI streamlines routine tasks through Gavel’s AI tool, Blueprint, you can upload a payment agreement template or form, for example, and have Blueprint scan for fillable fields. Blueprint will then create a workflow with suggested questions to populate your questionnaire that you can customize and adapt to fit your needs. Once the questionnaire is completed, the agreement is completed, ready for execution, final review, and filing.
Driving Results With Bankruptcy Law Automation
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.
Resolve bankruptcy cases faster with enhanced accuracy and reduced human error
Dramatically reduce drafting time with secure document automation
Use Cases For Bankruptcy Law Automation
Gavel’s automated document creation and streamlined client onboarding make practicing bankruptcy law easier than ever. Here are some ways to use our platform:
Completing Form 101 for a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filing. Based on the answers either you or your clients provide in the questionnaire, Gavel can auto-populate required information like names, addresses, Social Security numbers,s and EINS into Form 101. To save even more time, Gavel’s Blueprint AI can scan Form 101 and suggest the questions you will need in your questionnaire to fill the form out properly.
Completing Form 206A/B for a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing. Gavel’s AI tool, Blueprint, can scan this form and suggest questions to create a workflow for completing the form. It can also create the necessary attachments if needed and autofill the calculations you need to keep your information accurate.
Attorney Engagement Letter Drafting. Even before the necessitation of Forms 101 or Form 206A/B, an attorney can use Gavel to generate an attorney engagement letter. Gavel can generate this letter for you by extracting the client’s name, address, business details, and other information from the client intake into a letter template, and then using Docusign to execute the letter.
Client Intake Onboarding. For many clients, this is the first time they are filing for bankruptcy, and the process can be overwhelming. Guided questionnaires help them to provide all the information they need to determine how to handle their case, and the intuitive client portal allows them to follow along with the progress of the case and review the documents they have provided for accuracy.
Top Features To Consider for Bankruptcy Law Automation
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:
Document Automation. Accuracy is everything when it comes to bankruptcy filings, and you want a system that can take much of the human error out of the equation. Choose a system that can export information provided by the client to the documents you need to avoid errors.
Multiple Output Capabilities. Find software that can take one questionnaire and auto-populate several output documents. This means you only need to input the information once and every time that relevant information (e.g., client’s name, client’s address, etc.) is needed in a document, Gavel will pull from the response to the relevant output document.
Numerical Calculations. Keep calculations accurate by using software to auto-fill chosen fields with calculations based on already-filled fields early in the workflow. This not only improves accuracy but it saves time.
Safe, AI Capabilities. Find software that has effective but also safe features. For example, Gavel’s AI tool, Blueprint, is secure. Unlike other commercially available AI tools, none of the data inputted into a Gavel workflow is shared anywhere else either outside of Gavel or within Gavel.
Smart Integration. Your client's financial information may be spread across multiple databases or other programs. Integration with platforms like Zapier and Clio lets you quickly gather the information you need and use it efficiently.
Security. Handling a client’s financial information requires robust security. Industry-leading encryption protects your client’s data on secure servers, and your client retains control over the information they share through their client portal.
Take Your Bankruptcy Law Practice to the Next Level
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.
“Love the simplicity of setup and the complexity of opportunities. ”
Michael Smith
Co-Founder and CEO of Smith Barid, LLC
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