Legal
HotDocs helps law firms automate the generation of transactional legal documents—anything from standard correspondence to complex wills, trusts, and contracts.
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Lawyers trust HotDocs Advance with their document assembly needs
Document automation and assembly dramatically reduces the time it takes to generate legal documents, and improves quality by reducing the likelihood of human error.
The clear market leader
HotDocs is the top choice of document generation vendors, with more than 60% market share among law firms that use document generation. HotDocs was also ranked #2 in Technolawyer’s Top 25 Products of 2019, and was the 2018 Winner of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for International Trade. The reason is simple: HotDocs helps law firms save time and money on document creation while improving the quality of their documents.
Empowering law firms to do more
HotDocs’ document automation solution gives law firms and legal departments greater control over their document production and approval processes. Law firms currently using HotDocs:
- Create thousands of documents weekly
- Reduce time spent generating documents by 94%
- Save thousands of dollars each time a document is created
Automating the assembly of legal documents makes it possible to:
- Adhere to approved business rules set by internal or industry authorities
- Enable template version control to ensure all users or systems that produce documents use the latest, most compliant version of your document template
- Promote standardization to ensure that all assembled documents comply with internal brand guidelines
- Improve productivity by speeding up the document creation process by automating repetitive work
- Improve efficiency by reducing time spent by staff manually creating first drafts of standard legal documents
- Ensure faster turnaround times for approvals and document packages
- Integrate with leading practice management systems to streamline workflows
- Eliminate human errors that can creep into manual processes while reducing wasted time and associated costs
- Protect against legal issues stemming from inaccurate, non-compliant content
- Ensure global standardization by centralizing all aspects of template creation
- Improve document quality




“We know we can use HotDocs to give customers a high quality service, very quickly, and at a price they can be happy with.”
Document automation for all types of legal documents
HotDocs allows firms to automate the generation of legal documents—everything from standard correspondence to complex wills, trusts, and contracts. Almost any legal document can be drafted and assembled with HotDocs, including:
- LMA facility letters
- Legal contracts
- Trusts
- Mass claims
- Business formations
- Engagement letters
- Client intake forms
- Lease contracts
- Powers of attorney
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Court forms and submissions
- Employment documentation
Law firms around the world save time and money with HotDocs
CMS Cameron McKenna
“HotDocs has become such an integral part of the way we work that it is now inconceivable that we could ever do without it.” –John Naccarato, Partner, Banking & International Finance
Fenwick & West LLP
“Our corporate attorneys like the standardization, ease of use, and the fact that they can create packages of documents with the data gathered from client interviews. For developers, HotDocs provides a good framework for delivering customized document workflow solutions.” –Mark Gerow, Director of Application Development & Business Process
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
“Anyone can come to our site, select a term sheet template, run through the interview, generate a custom document and send us the answer file, which we then use to create all the other documents involved in the transaction.” –Lowell Ness, Partner