Overview
BigHand Document Creation is a DMS-integrated legal document solution that simplifies Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel for streamlined legal document production. Standardized templates can be created without the need for complex code, and deployed firm-wide in a single click for consistency, branding and improved version control. Users can access key design features such as unlimited numbering, bullet points, styling and more. The solution builds on familiar Microsoft environments, for increased adoption and minimal training.
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Optimise the quality of your legal documents while driving process improvement. Standardise document templates for consistent branding and improved version control, and simplify Microsoft tools for streamlined document production by any user, in any office, language, entity or jurisdiction.
Ensure documents are legal and brand compliant while streamlining document creation. Save time with simplified Microsoft tools that integrate with your DMS. Access key design features such as numbering, bullet points, styling and more, as well as centrally managed document templates for increased consistency.
Transparent and easy to implement with the familiar Microsoft environment for increased adoption and minimal training, and many integrations to systems including DMS, PMS, CRM and SQL databases.
Designed with input from support staff, lawyers and partners, so it meets the needs of your company, in a flexible, fuss-free fashion.
Personalised ribbon and brandable user interface provide an optimised experience within a familiar Office environment.
Build powerful forms and populate the data fields automatically. Best of all, no coding is needed, except for exceptionally complex documents.
Launch templates from any environment including Office, third party document management systems, SharePoint or bespoke applications.
Stay productive even when not connected to the corporate network - you can continue creating and working on your documents wherever you are.
Lists are linked to the active directory for ease of selection, and office and language are easily selected at the document outset.
Instantly create new templates and precedents from within Word with the powerful template designer. No need to wait for offsite vendor support.
Select templates in the customisable Template Launcher, with a handy wizard to capture all the relevant document information in one form.
Users can save their wizard answers to re-use later. Easily create a new version of an existing document or use text from one document to create another.
Users can utilise the many styling and drafting tools such as applying house styles for headings and numbering, for consistently branded documents with one click.
Gives users a view of all document end notes in one place without having to manually search long documents.
Including DMS, PMS, CRM and SQL databases. Plus implementation and training is simple, fast and transparent.
BigHand has partnered with DocStyle to offer two additional document tools that will save time and reduce costs for your firm.
Experience effortless document comparison capabilities with an easy to implement, user-friendly document comparison solution allowing you to quickly compare documents.
Enjoy advanced document cleanup and repair with superfast performance, effortless PDF conversions, and seamless style management to maintain firm standards and boost branding.
From the end user’s perspective, we now have a much slicker, streamlined process in place for creating documents.
For lawyers, it’s important their documents reflect the quality of their work at the highest standard, and BigHand now helps us ensure this first-class output.
We’re leveraging BigHand Document Creation to provide a consistent look and feel with our brand and implementing documents that we want people to use.
Our secretaries love it and it’s enabling our lawyers to be more self-sufficient so the whole team can focus on the more value-added work.
BigHand Document Creation is a template management platform that enables users to quickly create documents based on the firm’s house-style and brand, on behalf of any user, in any location and in any language or jurisdiction the firm may practice in. It works across the Microsoft Office suite in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation can be configured to support the firm’s own requirements and workflows. Users do not need expert knowledge of Word or the firm’s house style.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation can be configured to present a wizard to users when creating a document. The wizard prompts document authors to select from options before populating the rendered document with the desired content.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation has functionality to select content from any document and place it into any of the firm’s BigHand Document Creation templates or to create a new version.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation can help to simplify MS Word printing tasks including printer tray selection.
BigHand offers multiple pricing options based on your specific business requirements. Pricing is based on the number of licenses your firm needs, your desired level of access to our features and how you’d like to configure the solution to best fit your needs. To receive a custom quote, chat to a member of our team here.
Yes! We have a dedicated team of software trainers to help get your teams as self-sufficient as possible, as quickly as possible. We also offer flexibility for you to choose what type of training you require and how much of it you need.
Yes. Users can continue to draft documents from templates whilst on a plane or otherwise disconnected.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation integrates with other commonly found third-party systems such as iManage, NetDocuments, InterAction, Outlook, Microsoft Dynamics, Aderant and Elite as well as having connectors to custom systems.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation is compatible with MS Office 365.
Yes. The Practice can have templates in either Word, PowerPoint or Excel.
BigHand Document Creation is an on-premise solution, so all data is retained by the Firm.
No. The solution has a very light footprint.
BigHand Document Creation has excellent multi-lingual capabilities, including production of dual language templates.
Yes. BigHand Document Creation comes with a built-in Design and Admin tool which means Practices can take control of their own templates in-house without the need for programming skills or reliance on vendor or third-party support.
BigHand Document Creation is extremely flexible and configurable. The ribbon can be edited in-house using the inbuilt Designer and Admin tool.
No. a single change is made in a central location which is then utilised by all relevant templates.
Yes. The templates visible in the ‘template chooser’ can be filtered according to the group to which the user belongs.
Yes. The Firm can also designate practice-wide favourite templates.
BigHand Document Creation is extremely flexible and configurable. It is used by some of the largest global law firms, meeting a wide range of requirements. Please contact us to discuss how the solution may be configured to accommodate your specific needs.
Yes! You can read case studies from customers of all shapes and sizes here.
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