Burness Paull hires Clarilis for firm-wide automation project

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05
Jul
2016

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Top tier Scottish commercial law firm Burness Paull has hired precedent automation specialist Clarilis for a series of precedent projects. The firm has just gone live on a firm-wide initiative to automate the generation of the many thousands of complex letters of engagement Burness Paull produces every year.

As well as saving time drafting the letters of engagement, the Clarilis platform is regarded as an excellent risk management tool that will assist the Firm ensure greater rigour and consistency across its practice.  

As an intuitive, user-friendly platform that replicates the legal language and thought process of a draftsperson, rather than an IT questionnaire, Clarilis is popular across the Firm.

Lindsay Wallace, Director of Knowledge & Risk Management at Burness Paull said: “Market conditions are driving firms towards automation and this trend is here to stay due to the ever increasing focus on price and the commoditisation of some areas of the law. Automation of documents is becoming increasingly common and is even expected by some clients.

“As well as its approach, which is based on a managed solution rather than a DIY toolkit, the key value is the team at Clarilis  who speak the legal language, understand the needs of our business and how lawyers think. They are driven, task focused and always deliver exactly what they say they will. It’s this combination that, for us, makes Clarilis faster, better and less risky than traditional approaches to automation.”

James Quinn, Solicitor and co-founder of Clarilis said: “Burness Paull has one of the largest team of PSLs in Scotland and was happy with manual drafting when we first approached them. It’s great to see the journey we’ve been on with them over the last twelve months, to have changed their initially negative perception of automation providers and to see them validating our approach at the highest level within the Firm.”