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28 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 9 w w w . c a n a d i a n l a w y e r m a g . c o m The What and Why of document automation with Thomson Reuters Contract Express Is your legal practice or law department still writing letters instead of sending email? Are you using word-processing programs to draft contracts? The answer to the fi rst question is no doubt a resounding "no." The answer to the second question is more likely "yes." Therein lies the problem: lawyers have stopped writing and snail-mailing letters but the migration to document automation is proving to be much slower. That's why it's important to understand the benefi ts of document automation. Contract Express pushes your legal practice or law department in the right direction to produce fi rst drafts faster and create a high-quality work product. Customers of Thomson Reuters customers realize that our products integrate to enhance and streamline workfl ow. You'll see Practical Law Automated Documents powered by Contract Express alongside Drafting Assistant to help build your documents. With a suite of drafting solutions that communicate, integrate, and automate, legal professionals can realize the benefi ts of automation. Document automation is not new It's true – document automation has been around since the 1990s. Contract Express is more than 10 years old. Along the way, Contract Express has been improving parallel and sequential workfl ows, and the way lawyers, knowledge managers, and information technology (IT) professionals collaborate to bring legal practice into the 21st century. Consider how your organization assembles and executes non-disclosure agreements, lease agreements, due diligence reports, incorporation documents, consultant agreements, and much more. Is any of that automated? And if not, why not? Sponsored by Document Automation Improves workfl ow consistency Improves consistency Fewer bottlenecks Reduces errors Mitigated risk Greater compliance Contract Express

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