Your Firm Has Evolved. Your Document Automation Hasn't.

The firms seeing the biggest efficiency gains aren't tweaking old tools. They're replacing them. Download the Migration Guide for a step-by-step framework covering evaluation, transition planning, and how to protect your existing templates and logic along the way.

The firms seeing the biggest efficiency gains aren't tweaking old tools. They're replacing them. Download the Migration Guide for a step-by-step framework covering evaluation, transition planning, and how to protect your existing templates and logic along the way.

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Trusted by legal teams at the world's leading firms

Facing bottlenecks with your document automation tools?

Facing bottlenecks with your document automation tools?

First-generation tools like HotDocs and ContractExpress delivered real value when they were introduced. But the legal landscape has moved on, and for many firms, the technology hasn't kept pace.

Templates sit with a handful of specialists who are the only ones able to maintain them.
Lawyers avoid the platform and revert to copying from old precedents in Word. Version control breaks down across offices and practice areas.


Adoption stalls, workarounds multiply, and the efficiency gains you were promised never fully materialise.

First-generation tools like HotDocs and ContractExpress delivered real value when they were introduced. But the legal landscape has moved on, and for many firms, the technology hasn't kept pace.

Templates sit with a handful of specialists who are the only ones able to maintain them.
Lawyers avoid the platform and revert to copying from old precedents in Word. Version control breaks down across offices and practice areas.


Adoption stalls, workarounds multiply, and the efficiency gains you were promised never fully materialise.

The result? Your team is still spending hours on repetitive drafting, still chasing formatting errors, and still working around the tool instead of through it.

The result? Your team is still spending hours on repetitive drafting, still chasing formatting errors, and still working around the tool instead of through it.

Template Ownership

Templates that anyone on your team can build and maintain, not just a handful of specialists. No coding required. Your lawyers get time back, and your knowledge team stops being the bottleneck.

Integrated Document Workflows

A connected stack where precedents, forms, templates, and documents all talk to each other. No more stitching together workarounds. A few clicks from input to finished draft.

The Infrastructure Behind AI Drafting

Firms exploring AI-assisted drafting need structured, governed, API-accessible templates to do it safely. Getting the infrastructure right now means being ready when the opportunity arrives.

Making the switch doesn't have to be painful. We've helped dozens of firms migrate from legacy tools, and we've distilled what works into a single, practical guide.

Making the switch doesn't have to be painful. We've helped dozens of firms migrate from legacy tools, and we've distilled what works into a single, practical guide.

Inside the guide

The Playbook To Successful Migration.

Drawn from real migrations. Every section addresses a problem we've actually solved with leading law firms.

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The Cost of Staying Put

Why staying with exiting technology could be holding your firm back.

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Planning the Transition

How to audit, sequence, and phase a migration without disrupting fee-earners.

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What Changes for Your Lawyers

Learn about the practical benefits that will be felt across your organisation.

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Driving Adoption

How the firms that got it right proved value straight away and what made them successful

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Learn more below.

testimonials

Avvoka delivers enterprise-grade automation that’s intuitive and easy to adopt.

TANYA PFUMOJENA

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LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

I think Avvoka is a fantastic everything package: the product, the roadmap and the support. It's beyond platinum or VIP, it's unbelievable.

Lesley Wilcox

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LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

Since automating the templates on Avvoka our drafting time has gone from a full day to an hour and a half, start to finish.

REBECCA PASHLEY

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LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

Avvoka delivers enterprise-grade automation that’s intuitive and easy to adopt.

TANYA PFUMOJENA

-

LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

Avvoka delivers enterprise-grade automation that’s intuitive and easy to adopt.

TANYA PFUMOJENA

-

LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

I think Avvoka is a fantastic everything package: the product, the roadmap and the support. It's beyond platinum or VIP, it's unbelievable.

Lesley Wilcox

-

LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

Since automating the templates on Avvoka our drafting time has gone from a full day to an hour and a half, start to finish.

REBECCA PASHLEY

-

LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

testimonials

Avvoka delivers enterprise-grade automation that’s intuitive and easy to adopt.

TANYA PFUMOJENA

-

LEGAL OPERATIONS SPECIALIST, OYSTER HR

Preview · Chapter 01

Sticking with existing tech is becoming more expensive.

More and more firms are realising this. But before you decide whether to move, it helps to see the full picture. Middleware, specialist consultants, and the hidden labour of template maintenance add up quietly.

From the guide

"The headline cost of staying looked manageable. The total cost of ownership told a different story."

"Every firm we speak to describes the same pattern: a platform that made sense at the time, and a cost base that has quietly grown around it."

✚ What the chapter covers

• Why total cost of ownership is rarely what it appears on and outside of the invoice

• The specialist dependency conundrum, and what happens when those people leave

• How legacy integrations create ongoing maintenance costs most firms don't track

• The strategic cost of falling behind in AI readiness, lawyer experience, and competitive positioning

Preview · Chapter 02

The firms that get this right start smaller than you'd expect.

A migration doesn't have to be a big bang. The firms that do it well begin with a focused audit, pick the right first wave, and build momentum from there.

From the guide

"Migration is the single best opportunity you will get to clean house."

"Running old and new systems in parallel isn't a compromise, it's the thing that makes lawyers feel safe enough to engage."

What the chapter covers

• How one firm found that over three quarters of their template library was obsolete, before migration even started

• How to sequence what moves first to maximise early impact

• Who you need in the room, and why

• What a realistic timeline looks like from audit to full portfolio live

Preview · Chapter 03

Same document. Same fields. Everything else gets better.

The biggest concern in any migration is what lawyers will notice. The short answer is: less than you'd think. This chapter explains what actually changes, and what doesn't.

From the guide

"The template that used to sit in a specialist's queue can now be updated by the template owner directly."

"The lawyers who were most sceptical before go-live are often the ones who notice the least afterwards."

✚ What the chapter covers

• What changes for lawyers on day one and what stays the same

• How integrations with your DMS and existing tools are handled

• Why rebuilding templates, rather than copying them across, is what makes the difference long-term

• What the transition looks like from every seat in the firm

Preview · Chapter 04

Technology is the easy part. Adoption is the challenge.

Most legacy automation projects didn't fail on technology. They failed because lawyers didn't use them. This chapter covers what the firms that got it right did differentl and how to make sure yours follows the same path.

From the guide

"Sometimes seeing the solution in real life is all you need."

"When the internal story shifts from 'we switched platforms' to 'this saved us hours on the last deal', sceptics become advocates."

What the chapter covers

• See how one firm built firm-wide adoption from a single pilot template

• Why lawyers and template owners need different approaches and what each looks like

• How to prove value in the first 30 days and let advocacy do the rest

• How to turn your earliest users into the people who bring everyone else along

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