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LOE & contract automation

LOE and contract automation for law firms.

Engagement letters generated from the matter, with fee terms the system can act on — so the agreement raises the money instead of sitting in a folder.

The problem

The engagement letter is the most consequential document a firm writes, and the one most often produced by editing the last one.

It settles the fee, the scope and when money falls due. Then it goes into a folder, and for the rest of the matter the terms live in whoever negotiated them. When the second instalment is missed, or the agreement quietly expires halfway through the case, nobody finds out from the document.

How it works

From the template to the money.

  1. 01

    Generate it from the matter, not from last time's file

    Your own template is populated from the matter's own data — the client, the parties, the scope — rather than someone opening the previous engagement letter and hoping every name was changed.

  2. 02

    The fee terms are structured, not prose

    An advance payment, instalments by date, instalments tied to stages of the litigation, a settlement fee as a fixed sum or as a percentage of the claim, or an hourly rate. These are fields the system can act on, not a paragraph somebody will have to re-read later.

  3. 03

    The total computes itself

    The agreement's value is calculated from its terms every time it is read, with a breakdown showing where each part came from — “Settlement (Percentage): 11% × 50,000.00 = 5,500.00”. A number typed in once and left to go stale is not possible here.

  4. 04

    Send it for signature

    Out through DocuSign and tracked to signed, without leaving the matter record. The executed agreement lands back on the file it belongs to.

  5. 05

    Then it raises the money

    Each fee term becomes a payment due on the matter, and each one carries its own invoice and receipt state. The agreement stops being a document about money and becomes the thing that actually asks for it.

See it

The same thing, on screen.

An engagement letter generated from a template and sent for signature.

Outcomes

What changes for the firm.

In detail

Everything included, in one place.

Six ways to structure a fee

Advance payment, instalments by date, instalments by litigation stage, instalments by payment stage, a settlement fee as a fixed amount or a percentage of the claim, and hourly rates. Recorded as terms rather than described in a paragraph.

Expiry warnings

An agreement reports itself as active, expiring or expired, with the days remaining computed — so a retainer running out mid-matter is visible thirty days before it becomes a conversation with the client.

A total that cannot go stale

The agreement's value is computed from its terms on every read, with a breakdown explaining each contribution. Percentage-based settlement fees are calculated against the claim rather than estimated and typed in.

Each term tracked to payment

Every instalment carries its own invoice and receipt state, so the question is not whether the client has paid but which parts of the agreement they have paid.

E-signature through DocuSign

Send for signature and track it to signed without leaving the matter, with the executed document returning to the file it belongs to.

AI clause review

Uploaded contracts can be read for their clauses — each extracted with its type, a summary, the party it affects, its position in the document, and a risk level — so a long agreement can be triaged before it is read line by line.

FAQ

Common questions about this feature.

Yes. Your templates are loaded into the platform and populated from the matter's data, so the wording stays the firm's own and only the particulars change.

Related

Works with the rest of the platform.

See it on your own matters

A short walkthrough with our team, using the kind of work your team handles day to day.