Lawyaw is a document assembly tool designed to help you create smart templates for your law practice. It has a user-friendly web-based platform, and comes with an MS Word add-in that connects directly to your online account. It is somewhat unique in the marketplace as a low-code application that allows you to retain most of MS Word’s conditional formatting functionality. Our review of Lawyaw finds a reasonably priced platform that balances complexity and usability well.
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Who Lawyaw is For
Lawyaw is for attorneys who want to create smart documents in an intuitive and easy-to-use way. The user experience is clean, and their team puts a lot of effort into balancing usability with the power of what the application can do.
Attorneys who want to simultaneously create multiple documents with conditional logic in them, will find Lawyaw powerful enough to do so. While, those who want straight-forward template building, will find the MS Word add-in feels, somehow, familiar. The platform has efficient eSignature tools, an intuitive user experience, and still lets you use complex MS Word formatting features.
Additionally, attorneys who use Clio Manage will find the platform especially helpful. As there is a two-way sync capable of keeping all of your Matter and Client information up-to-date.
On the other hand, although users can send forms to their clients to fill out, the application does not handle guided interviews as elegantly as some other platforms. Accordingly, this may not be the solution for practices who are looking to lean-into productizing their services.
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| Ready-made forms | No Guided Interviews |
| MS Word add-in | No ePayments |
| Built-in eSignature | No White Labeling |
Lawyaw Features
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Website
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www.lawyaw.com |
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Services Offered
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Starting Price
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$59/user/month for California forms only; $99/user/month otherwise |
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Free Trial
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Apps
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Software Integrations
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Open API
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Version Control
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Encryption
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✓ |
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Built-In E-Signing
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✓ |
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
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✓ |
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Metadata Scrubbing
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Document Templates
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Court Forms
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✓ |
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Guided Interviews
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Conditional Logic
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Tables
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Calculations
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Lawyaw FAQs
For users who just want California forms, Lawyaw is priced at $59/user/month. Otherwise, users can get all of the platform’s features for a price of $99/user/month.
For Clio users, Lawyaw will pull new client information in from Clio Manage, so you don’t have to create new contacts in the system. Users can also track Lawyaw drafting time within Clio.
For those without Clio, this is not necessarily a must-have. Lawyaw has a rather robust relational database built-in that can handle a substantial amount of your client information for you.
Lawyaw has a federally-compliant e-signature tool built right in. Since the product is web-based, lawyers simply sign online and then forward them to clients for their e-signature. This eliminates the need for a third-party e-signing tool such as HelloSign.
No. Currently, it does not have a built-in or integrated ePayment system.
At the time of this review, Lawyaw does not have Guided Interviews, however, users can easily send forms (or questionnaires) to clients in order to get information from them.
Lawyaw is a low-code document assembly platform. It’s Microsoft Word add-in makes creating templates relatively easy, and users of the California Court Forms will find the necessary functionality has already been built-out.
Yes. Using the MS Word add-in, or the browser, attorneys can easily import their current templates into the system to use. Although, you will have to set-up any logic that is required.
Lawyaw is tightly integrated with the California state court filing system, giving attorneys access to over 5,000 court forms. Attorneys can fill out all Judicial Council, county, and federal immigration forms with their platform. The company also updates those forms automatically, ensuring access to the most current version. This used to be their bread-and-butter, and for attorneys in California, may be worth the sticker price in-and-of-itself.
The browser-based app is easy to get started with and, as of this review, Lawyaw’s documentation is pretty comprehensive. So an office can get up-and-running pretty quickly. However, like all document assembly providers, we suggest users take advantage of their onboarding systems.
Lawyaw is a browser-based program so it will generally work on any computer running a modern browser. Obviously, using the Microsoft Word add-in will require you to be able to run MS Word on your computer.
Additional Details
MS Word Add-in Demo
Lawyaw users build their templates directly in their MS Word application. Although all of the saved information lives on the application servers, you are able to take advantage of the robust formatting features that come with MS Word. Take a look at the demo below to see more.
Ready-made Court Forms
Lawyaw is a California Judicial Council partner. With that, they can provide a host of approved California court forms. Additionally, they maintain 5000+ USCIS immigration forms in their system and are adding more all the time.
Good forms but Clio integration is clunky
I used LawYaw for court forms for a while. The one thing I found very difficult was that the Clio integration took hours to sync, making it pretty much unusable. Otherwise, a pretty good solution for the court forms they do have.
Lawyaw is Awesome!
We’ve been using Lawyaw for several years. The Lawyaw team is very responsive to requests and willing to adapt their software for users. We enjoy using all of the features (esign, forms, templates, etc.) and the price makes it a great deal for any small or solo attorney. I highly recommend adding Lawyaw to your tech stack at your firm.