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Legal Document Solution Saves Law Firms Time and Money

By Angela D. Giampolo
August 29, 2011

Drafting custom contracts from scratch is arguably the most labor intensive and expensive part of the legal process. At Giampolo Law Group (GLG), we economically enable growth for our clients by offering the breadth of services and preventative advice of a full-service law firm. We are a boutique law firm located in Philadelphia with offices in New Jersey that provides progressive regional and international corporate, civil rights and real estate legal services to small and medium-sized businesses.

Sticking to our mission has led us to experiment with several cost-reducing measures to minimize our clients' financial burden. These measures include repurposing our contracts and addendums when possible and working with pre-written contract templates purchased from a handful of online legal forms sites.

We quickly discovered, however, that this is not the most effective method of reducing cost, particularly after factoring in the amount of time required to source the right documents, modify the text and correct style inconsistencies. We were wasting too many unbillable hours editing and formatting legal contracts for the sole purpose of creating some semblance of cohesion between documents.

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