Case Study Implementation Of Document Automation In International Law Firm

Case Study
Implementation Of Document Automation In International Law Firm

Name:	Kinstellar
Website:	www.kinstellar.com
Industry:	Legal services
Size:	250+ lawyers
Offices:	10 countries

More about Kinstellar

Key Improvements

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Drafting time saved

Automated Templates

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Document-Automated Offices

Interconnected and Bundled Templates

Background

Kinstellar is a leading independent law firm in Emerging Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, with offices in Almaty and Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Bucharest (Romania), Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey), Kyiv (Ukraine), Prague (the Czech Republic), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

Key Facts:

11 offices in 10 countries
250+ lawyers
7,500+ matters
12 years in operation

This case study was presented at KM Summit 2019 in London.

“We preferred Legito to other document assembly systems we tested because Legito allows us to automate documents without coding or programming.”

Petr Mestanek

Head of Know-how, Kinstellar

Challenges

11 offices
Only two offices with over 40 lawyers
Relatively small volume of documents produced
No resources that could be dedicated solely to preparing document automation
How to make the initiative profitable

Evaluation

We tested two document automation software solutions for three months
The testing group consisted of three people from three different offices – Almaty (Counsel), Bucharest (Know-how lawyer), Prague (Head of Know-how)
Automated two pledge agreements using each of the products

Criteria:

Price – license, consultancy
Ease of use for author and user – learning curve
Can authors create automated templates without knowing how to code
Time needed to automate simple / complex documents
Quality of training by the provider
Further training needed post trial period
Would customization be required prior to launch
Costs / time required for customization
Quality of Client Services (support)
Advanced features
Reputation of the provider
Speed of the software
Installation
Ease of exit
Security
Planned product development

Onboarding

When we started to implement Legito, the online Power User Traning Course wasn’t yet available. For that reason, we organized a 2-day intensive workshop for our workspace administrators and automated templates creators.
First, we automated an Engagement letter specialized for the Prague office in two languages: English and Czech. Afterwards, we used the English version of the Engagement letter as an example to automate Engagement letters in other offices.
At the same time, we began to automate a complex set of security documents for bank transactions, consisting mostly of Pledge Agreements.

Results

The automated set of security document allows our Prague office to produce documents for each transaction 10x faster.
Combined, Kinstellar lawyers have published 28 automated templates to date. Many are inter-connected (settings for, or data inserted into one document affect other related documents).
An international law firm operating in a region with many different languages, Kinstellar frequently uses Legito’s “automatic translations” and “bilingual documents” features which further reduces our drafting times.
Some Kinstellar templates automatically pull data from company registers thus avoiding manual data entry.