How can I scale my employment law business with Gavel?
Gavel frees up time to serve more clients, but it does more than that. Gavel lets you open new revenue paths with scalable legal service products. Productizing your legal services allows clients who previously were outpriced from the traditional legal market to purchase your products if their legal needs do not require a full-service law firm–tapping into a whole new market. Create your customized workflow and client portal, and you can provide legal services online to reach more clients.
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?
Nope! Gavel is easy to use, no matter how much technical knowledge you have.
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. For immediate support, contact Gavel via phone, live screen share, email, or even via the Slack community. Gavel also provides live training and a 24/7 knowledge center.
Security is our primary concern, given that we serve primarily legal customers. All customers are set up on segregated encrypted databases. All data centers 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.
See gavel.io/security for more details.
How Employment Law Automation Can Save You Time And Help Scale Your Firm
Mastery of employment law is crucial for any business that needs to protect itself and its employees. Gavel supports your employment law practice with powerful automation tools that streamline your workflow, reduce human error, and help clients stay in the loop.
Gavel empowers legal professionals to streamline their practice through document automation and document generation. 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. Additionally, Gavel’s workflows can be used as a client intake platform when expanding your book of business–streamlining every part of your employment practice. In this way, lawyers can use Gavel to “build a Turbotax” for their employment law practice and monetize their work at scale.
Let's take a look at how exactly Gavel can take some of the grunt work out of employment law and help you spend more time working with clients and scaling your firm.
Why Automate Employment Law?
Employment law presents unique challenges for legal professionals and places serious demands on your time. Whether you’re answering HR questions for your client’s start-up or you’re updating your own law firm’s policies, employment law firms are unique in that much of the legal work they do for their clients can also be directly applicable to their own livelihoods.
Tasks like confirming regulatory compliance or dealing with a unique HR issue often require the review of multiple documents that sometimes seem to contradict each other. The administrative burden of managing these kinds of scenarios can quickly become overwhelming. Additionally, tasks like collecting data for new clients, drafting new contracts, and onboarding documents for your employer clients can require the fast, accurate generation of several documents.
That's why you need Gavel. Smart document automation helps you keep and create everything you need in one place. With Gavel, you can create one questionnaire to populate multiple resulting documents, ensuring consistency in policy and accuracy in document creation. By answering questions once in a questionnaire and having one centralized point of information gathering, not only are solutions easier to locate when problems arise, but inconsistencies across documents are reduced. Centralizing all your client data means you can focus on actual legal work, generate more accurate work product and spend the time you would have spent tracking down documents on nurturing client relationships.
Gavel gives you:
Easier document drafting, with less time spent drafting and locating documents
Better accuracy and due diligence when generating new legal work products and advising
Significant time savings to spend on human relationships for better client satisfaction
More billable hours spent on legal services and legal research, less time spent on low-value drafting and information gathering
Gavel Features for Employment Law
Gavel offers excellent features designed to streamline processes for your legal teams.
Document Automation: Our legal workflow automation lets you create custom questionnaires that can be completed by the client or the attorney, then autopopulated into a Word or PDF document. Save time for your paralegals while also customizing documents to each case with less risk of errors.
Client Guidance: Preempt your clients’ questions by including info bubbles and default answers in workflow prompts. This will save time on client back-and-forth and equip the client to take ownership of their case.
Client Facing Tools: We provide secure client intake and a client portal that allows clients to access their documents and track the progress of their case. This reduces status inquiries and keeps the client up-to-date. The client portal also allows clients to review prior documents, becoming the first line of defense in checking for factual consistency across all responses.
AI-Enabled Processes: Our award-winning AI streamlines routine tasks through Gavel Blueprint’s automated templates. With Blueprint, lawyers can simply upload a contract template, for example, and have Blueprint scan for fillable fields and create a baseline workflow for attorneys to then customize and adapt for their practice. After the lawyer approves the workflow, it can be used again and again for future clients. Once completed, the contract is completed, ready for execution, final review, and filing.
Integration Capabilities: Easily link with platforms like Clio and Zapier to create a seamless workflow across different tools, allowing for even data existing in other databases to be auto-populated into Gavel. Gavel’s integration with Docusign also allows for faster execution and progress along a case.
Driving Results with Employment Law Automation
Thousands of lawyers have harnessed the power of Gavel to automate their practice, expand services to their clients, market their practice in new ways, and increase profitability.
With Gavel, Matchstick Legal was able to create Emessay–a platform that allows clients to create custom, downloadable contracts by answering a handful of easy-to-understand questions. Emessay is able to profit while simultaneously helping people who traditionally couldn’t afford full-scale representation.
Additionally, based on a Gavel interview of 50 corporate, family law, and estate planning lawyers, it found that lawyers saved upwards of 90% of the time they had previously spent on crafting legal documents–freeing up lawyers to focus on high-level legal work, have the capacity to take on more clients, and have faster turnarounds for their clients. All the while having the peace of mind that Gavel works to ensure accuracy across documents.
New opportunities to market cutting-edge automation products
Ability to expand your client base with multilanguage support
Greater accuracy and fewer errors, even in complex contracts that cross-reference each other
Use Cases for Employment Law Automation
Gavel’s automated questionnaires, secure client portal, info-bubble functions, multi-language capabilities, and document completion progress indications have multiple uses in the employment law field. Below are a few.
Employment Agreement Drafting: With Gavel, you can create customized employment agreements in a fraction of the time. Create a questionnaire, once, with questions such as the employee’s name, job title, address, salary, etc. For questions that require additional context or information, use Gavel’s info bubbles and default answers function to guide answers. Then, using Gavel, auto-populate your employment agreement contract template with the answers from the questionnaire. This results in consistent, accurate employment agreements every time.
Compliance Advice. Gavel’s centralized client portal keeps documents organized and allows you to get up to speed with historic employment practices. Clients can upload requested documents on their own time. The portal also flags the client when certain questionnaires still need to be completed, documents executed, or otherwise addressed. This status flagging helps the lawyer keep track of compliance requirements.
Client Intake Onboarding. Gavel’s multilanguage support allows you to create questionnaires in different languages–ensuring that your clients can provide the exact type of information you are requesting and reducing miscommunication. This means gathering the necessary data from a new client can be done in one place, with clarity and onboarding headaches kept to a minimum.
Top Features to Consider for Employment Law Automation
What should you look for when choosing an automation platform for employment law?
Customization: Every industry and every client is different. Choose a platform that allows tailored workflows and document templates to meet specific client and regulatory needs.
Integrations: Look for compatibility with tools like Docusign, Clio, and Zapier. Having these platforms work together will save you a lot of time when drafting.
Security: You need strong security measures, including encryption and secure client portals, to protect sensitive data and keep you in compliance with industry standards. This is especially important when you’re dealing with clients’ personal information.
User-Friendly Interface: You want a platform with a straightforward and intuitive design. That way, your clients and your staff can easily access and navigate the platform and input much of the necessary information themselves. What use is cutting-edge technology if using its features proves more cumbersome than helpful?
Centralized Data Management: Having everyone use a single source for certain document types simplifies client communication and minimizes errors and time spent tracking down information.
Transform Your Employment Law Practice with Gavel
Gavel can handle many of the routine tasks involved in employment law cases so that you can focus on higher-level legal work. With AI-powered document generation, integration with other platforms like Clio and Docusign, and intuitive and easy-to-use client facing tools, Gavel reduces human error and drastically cuts down your administrative burden. Let Gavel transform your employment law practice and help you serve more clients more efficiently. Get started with a free trial of Gavel today.
"For each client, I easily save several hours of work and about 75% of the time I spent drafting."
Emilia Coto
Principal Lawyer and Founder at Sisu Legal
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