Forms and precedents
Precedents on Disk (way back)
Consider the WP scene in the mid-80s when I first produced Precedents on Disk for what was then Longman Law Tax & Finance (since purchased by Sweet & Maxwell). We catered for the most common word processor formats of the day, including dedicated word processors like IBM Displaywriter, Decmate, Wang and Wordplex; DOS (PC) word […]
Taking stock of docstoc
I’ve spent some time browsing around on docstoc, a sort of YouTube for “professional” documents which has just launched in public beta. (Hat tip: Bob Ambrogi) docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents. Find a vast quantity of high quality legal, business, technology, educational, and creative documents for free. docstoc allows users […]
Free forms – revisited (again)
Russell Shepherd of Capform has asked me to correct an error in the previous post, repeated from the Media Guardian article, saying that: We have no intention of introducing charges for our current free forms service on Capform. Capform will introduce new chargeable services next year – but this will not affect the provision of […]
Free forms – the reprise
Serial entrepreneur Russell Shepherd has launched Capform, which provides a free library of over 1,000 government forms in HotDocs format for download from the web. The business is essentially the same as Everyform, which he originally set up in 1999 and sold to what is now LexisNexis Butterworths in 2001 for an undisclosed 7-figure sum. […]
Online document automation
Eversheds employment team has developed an online service designed for human resource professionals in large organisations that automates the process of drafting employment documents. See this walk-through demo of HR Contract Builder. The service uses the DealBuilder document automation system from Business Integrity. Joy London cites these other DealBuilder legal applications: Linklaters (BlueFlag), Microsoft (software […]
Court Service Online Forms
The Court Service’s new Online Forms pilot service enables you to complete 20 civil court forms online and submit them electroically, with a fee if necessary, to one of 9 pilot courts which include Basildon County Court, Birmingham County Court, Bournemouth County Court, Coventry County Court, Dartford County Court, Leicester County Court, Llangefni County Court, […]
Forms on the Web
Published in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers, March 2003 Since the early 1990s electronic forms have been a staple purchase for many firms. The introduction of laser printers and WYSIWYG word processors (What You See Is What You Get) and forms design applications enabled suppliers readily to create and distribute their own proprietary electronic versions […]
