Attorneys report spending 40–50% of the day on documentation and drafting alone. We audit your highest-volume, most time-consuming forms — closing packages, trust and estate document sets, retainer agreements — and turn them into attorney-reviewed templates. How much time that gives back is measured on your own documents, before and after — the audit reports that number rather than predicting it.
Request a Forms Audit See What's IncludedEvery one of these numbers is a document-automation opportunity, not a demand problem — the work is already coming in, it's just taking too long to process once it does.
Share of the average attorney's day spent on documentation and drafting.
Hours lost each week to document creation and management friction — at least 6 of those hours pure waste.
Reduction in drafting time reported by document-automation vendors on the document types that get automated. Your firm’s number is measured, not assumed.
What 50 documents a month would represent at that reported rate — an illustration of the arithmetic, not a projection for your firm.
Sources: the 40–50% of day and 11.2 hours weekly figures come from the Clio Legal Trends Report, via CaseStatus and MetaJure. The 50–80% drafting reduction comes from Mitratech and XpressDox. Both of those are document-automation vendors publishing figures for document automation, and MetaJure sells in the same category. We cite them because they are the numbers that exist; we are not aware of an independent study of this range, and we treat the figures as directional rather than definitive. Your firm’s own reduction is measured on your own documents, before and after, and reported back to you.
A diagnostic-and-build engagement, scoped in 1–2 weeks, that finds a firm's highest-time-cost, highest-repetition documents and turns them into automated templates your own staff can run.
Which documents get produced most, how long each takes by hand, and who drafts them today
Every candidate document scored by volume × time × error risk
Structured intake feeding clause-logic templates in your firm's own language
A fit assessment matched to your size, budget, and existing systems
Every automated draft routes to a named attorney before a client sees it
A before/after time comparison on your own numbers, not industry averages
Document volume and complexity look different by practice area — these two show the range.
Automated first drafts are drafts, not filings. Every template is built to route through your attorneys, not around them.
Talk to Us About FitThe ROI Compass is how Simplex Via ranks every recommendation it makes, in any engagement. Applied to your firm's paperwork, the three numbers read like this. The Automation Opportunity Ranking names which number each document bears on, what it measures against today, and by what mechanism — so you can sequence the build against something other than a vendor's opinion.
Freed drafting capacity becomes billable capacity — another closing, another estate plan, another client — in practices where drafting time, not demand, is the real ceiling. Measured against your current matter volume, not hours saved in the abstract.
Real estate: A closing practice held back by drafting backlog can close more files the same month, same staff.
Trust & estate: A practice turning away consultations during peak season can convert more of them into signed engagements.
The same client and matter facts captured once instead of re-typed into every closing, trust, or estate document. This is the dominant number in a document automation engagement.
Real estate: Property address, parties, price, and closing date captured once, reused across the purchase agreement, closing disclosure, and deed.
Trust & estate: Family structure, successor trustee, and guardian choices captured once, reused across the will, trust, POA, and healthcare directive.
The same standard on your busiest closing week as your slowest, produced through a named attorney's review checkpoint before any draft reaches a client or gets filed.
Real estate: The same review checkpoint on your busiest closing week as your slowest — before a deed gets recorded.
Trust & estate: A trust and its companion pour-over will that always reference the same fiduciary designations and dates.
Every document in your Automation Opportunity Ranking carries the number it bears on, its baseline, and the mechanism behind it. Efficiency is measured directly on your own documents; converting freed time into more billable matters is confirmed with you, not assumed.
A prioritized roadmap plus the built templates for the first priority tier, delivered in Simplex Via's standard report format.
Pick a time that works for you and we'll come prepared to talk through your highest-volume documents.
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