Six Years of the Fun Geeks! Six years ago, we launched echo.legal with a simple mission: to make legal tech work for law firms and legal teams as a powerful enabler of real change. As early pioneers in legal technology, particularly in document automation, we saw firsthand what worked, what didn’t, and what it took […]

As we wrap up 2024, we’re celebrating another year of progress, partnerships, and the lifestyle that comes with being the ‘Fun Geeks’ of legal tech! This year at echo.legal has been one of real progress. We’ve had the opportunity to partner with some amazing clients, take on challenging automation projects, and continue to find new […]

In the last two blogs of this series, our team of document automation experts and self-confessed “fun geeks” offered insights on setting on your document automation journey, the crucial role of document styles and selecting the right templates for automation and what to consider when executing your document automation strategy. In this final blog, we […]

In our last blog, our team of document automation experts and self-confessed “fun geeks” offered insights on setting on your document automation journey, the crucial role of document styles and selecting the right templates for automation. With the foundations in place, our next piece discussed what to consider when executing your document automation strategy. Top […]

Document automation can be challenging if not thoroughly planned and executed. Successful legal automation requires a solid foundation of groundwork, which may not always seem glamorous but is essential for a smooth deployment of automated content, increased engagement, and utilisation of technologies like #GenAI, the acceleration of which is increasingly creating both opportunities and challenges. […]

Clyde & Co, renowned for providing comprehensive legal services to its clients worldwide, is committed to global innovation and digital transformation. It is a law firm that is continually striving to streamline processes and improve client experiences to remain at the forefront of legal service delivery. When they approached us with their vision for Law […]

Innovation in legal automation isn’t just about creating something new; it’s also about reusing what you already have and making it better. In this mini-series, we explore ways to maximise the potential of your existing document automation solutions by reusing templates effectively. In our last blog, we tackled the challenges of signature blocks. This time, […]

There are certain types of documents that are staples for every law firm to automate. Think of Share Purchase Agreements and Corporate Actions in Corporate, Leases and Licenses in Real Estate and, alongside Loan Agreements, Banking practices often look to their Legal Opinion precedents as another core staple for law firms to automate. In this […]

When your lawyer wants access to the precedent… Are you a knowledge manager in a law firm or legal team? If so, you are likely familiar with the challenges that come with managing and processing legal documents efficiently. Whilst document automation software helps you streamline workflow and improve productivity, like any technology, automation can throw up usability […]

Legal Operations is a bit of a buzz word at the moment and it is often entwined with legal technology and the idea of doing more with less. In this article we explore what “Legal Ops” is, who needs it and how to get started. 1. What is Legal Ops? Legal Ops can mean different […]

Many teams considering implementing Legal Ops often talk about the need for a “Legal Front Door”. But what is this concept and for those starting out and how might one be implemented with little or no budget? 1. What is a Legal Front Door? A Legal Front Door can be thought of as a first […]

ust over 5 years ago, I met with stalwart Philip Maskell and the visionary, charismatic (and greatly missed), Richard Newton; whom I’d known and worked with for 2 decades, to discuss what an automation services business could look like.   Geography and logistics meant our meeting place was the café of a hot tub showroom […]

In honour of our fifth birthday this month, we thought we would take a look back over some of the cool stuff we’ve done: Clever Collaborations We’ve loved working with others on some cool collaborations including TLB with the automation of their OneNDA (available to download as a CE template), through to working with The […]

Using our managed services packages to add flexible resources at times of demand across multiple practices areas and help deliver the Firm’s automation strategy At echo.legal, our mission is to make document automation seamless for law firms and increase legal technology adoption amongst the lawyer community. We’re bringing document automation and legal technology to life […]

Would you look at that? We’re approaching the tail end of 2023! Here’s a chance for us to highlight some of our most popular blog posts from this year. From the latest updates to client stories and our insights into document automation processes and strategies, it’s all neatly compiled in one spot. Why not take […]

echo.legal helps Charles Russell Speechly’s Construction and Engineering team kick-start their transformation journey At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience. So, we’ve created some stories that show how we work with our clients using document automation and how this creates business results. This is our story of working with the […]

Sometimes innovation and legal automation can be about reusing what you already have and making it better. So team echo.legal thought we would put pen to paper with a blog series on how to get the most out of automation by reusing your templates. We’re kicking off by looking at the nettlesome challenges of signature […]

Much has been said recently about running legal technology projects iteratively. This means running projects in small phases, adding in feedback loops. Initial phases can then give an indication of where enhancements might be beneficial, informing the development of subsequent phases. And of course, most projects need lawyers as part of the project team taking […]

At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience, and show how we work with our clients using document automation to create real business results. This case study sets out how we worked with a leading global law firm that is recognised for legal innovation, and helped it to get the most […]

Time to be selfish… When starting a legal tech project that is client facing – be it a portal, an automated document or a tool for your client to use internally – there are a variety of motivations. Many of these sound great and read like selfless aspirational values: “We want to integrate with our […]

Much has been said about ROI, with tech vendors and legal technology consultants often touting the potential savings to be gained by bringing automation and other legal technology into a law firm or a legal team. Stats and savings realisation are clearly vital – these are projects that need time and resources so must yield […]

Rhianne Armstrong, the newest member of #teamecho talks about how a secondment opportunity combined her love of tech with the law and took her career from Banking Lawyer to LegalOps Specialist working for large law firms and in-house teams before she came to echo. Click below for more on: …and much more! Video by Joli […]

The echo.legal team have lots of experience working with law firms to create and implement legal technology projects for their clients. We have pulled together some of our thoughts for law firms looking to work with their clients on innovative initiatives powered by legal tech. Let’s start with the basics: What is a “client legal […]

HighQ Collaborate HighQ Collaborate (HighQ) is an incredibly powerful system for collaboration within any organisation. It enables its users to share any kind of information (whether this is stored in files or in tables) in a way that is easy and secure inside their organisation and with external parties. Information in HighQ is stored within […]

Bring legal technology and documentation to a wider audience At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience. So we’ve created some stories that show how we work with our clients using document automation and how this creates business results. This is our story of working with Conyers to maximise their use […]

At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience by showing how we work with our clients using document automation to create business results. We partner with Hogan Lovell’s expert document automation team – led by Sarah Houghton in the Knowledge function – as it continues its journey to embed Contract Express […]

Can you believe it’s almost the end of 2022? We’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of our top blog posts from 2022 – from news, to client stories, to our thoughts on the latest document automation processes and strategies, it’s all here in one place. Why not take a moment […]

At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience by showing how we work with our clients, using document automation to create business results. We have been working with a global consulting business on a major Contract Express project to make their systems work more efficiently for their internal stakeholders. Here’s our […]

At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience by showing how we work with our clients using document automation to create business results. This is our client story of working with Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) Contract Express project. Modifying Contract Express to work for RBC RBC is the largest bank […]

At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience by showing how we work with our clients using document automation to create business results. We recently worked with international legal practice Osborne Clarke to expand its use of Contract Express in its Corporate and Banking teams. This enabled Osborne Clarke to focus […]

Anna Turner, our Director of Delivery and resident pilot talks all things automation including its importance in the aviation industry! Hear more from her including her experience of working with world leading organisations and law firms to successfully deliver their automation strategy in our recent interview: Video by Lisa Briggs and music by Bensound.com

Introduction As automation tools have evolved, so too has the wisdom of merging the content of different versions of the same template into an amalgamated template. Pre the era of document automation, the debate as to whether or not to have amalgamated templates often centred around the amount of time users needed to spend repetitively […]

You’ve invested a huge amount of time, energy and resource in your automation project. But this is only half the story. Its success depends on engagement and user adoption from its intended userbase in your law firm or orgnanisation. How can you ensure this is a thread throughout the project life-cycle so your investment in […]

At echo.legal, we want to bring legal technology to a wider audience. So we’ve created some stories that show how we work with our clients using document automation and how this creates business results. This is our story of working with a leading auction house to maximise their use of Contract Express. Rare vintage items, […]

echo.legal expands its team of document and process automation specialists We recently welcomed automation specialist Anna Turner to team echo.legal to help us expand our work with law firms and in-house legal teams on their legal technology and document automation initiatives. Anna will be leading on client delivery at echo.legal. She brings 10 years’ of […]

echo.legal – a quick intro For those of you who might not know us; an introduction. At echo.legal, we work with in-house teams and law firms on a range of legal automation projects, from automating individual or suites of documents on various platforms, implementing and expanding use of HighQ, Contract Express, Avvoka and HotDocs, supporting […]

Have you automated your organisation’s corporate action templates yet? Doing so provides an excellent opportunity to drive efficiency and profitability. What do I mean by “corporate actions”? The “corporate action” umbrella term can be used to refer to a very broad range of actions which a company may want to implement. For instance, it can […]

Common misconceptions “Document automation is complex and expensive”; “It will stop lawyers from learning”; “Our documents are too bespoke”; “Our documents will diminish in quality” and “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”- these are just a few of the most common arguments used by those not convinced of the value of document automation tools. […]

When designing digital processes, you will often have to interact with, or perhaps design, webforms, otherwise called questionnaires or interviews. By ‘webforms’, I mean interfaces where a user answers a series of questions which are then used to drive another process – such as generating a document or managing a transaction. You can use webforms […]

On 25th Feb echo.legal was invited to join ILTA Europe’s IT Directors Roundtable, a monthly forum where leaders from European law firms discuss best practice in legal tech. Mark Ford Echo’s Director of Knowledge & Innovation Strategy and I gave an update on document automation. It was a lively and well attended session provoking a […]

Hannah Price-Harries, one of our automation lawyers, brings an interesting perspective on transitioning from being a busy transactional lawyer to delivering legal automation for firms and in house teams. Her comments on combining the Mum/Professional role are apposite in these locked down times. Video by Justified Productions Lisa Briggs and music by Bensound.com

I’m very pleased for our next blog update to introduce Eric Campbell, who identifies some of his top drafting tips for preparing templates for automation. Eric worked as a corporate and commercial solicitor before a career of over 26 years as a corporate professional support lawyer at Clifford Chance, Lovells, Mayer Brown and KPMG. He […]

This week we’ve interviewed our new joiner Konstantinos Georgiadis, who talks about being a Legal Technologist and new developments in the area. Video by Justified Productions Lisa Briggs and music by Bensound.com

Will Sumners, Echo’s COO, recently caught up with Mark Ford, Chief Knowledge Officer at Baker McKenzie LLP. Mark is a practicing lawyer of 25 years’ experience as well as KM leader and has long experience of document automation. Whilst Head of Knowledge Management at Clifford Chance in 2001 he and his team were only the […]