We're so excited to bring you the fourth edition of the Avvoka Quarterly. It's been a busy season for us and we're using this as an opportunity for you to catch up with the team and hear about all of the exciting things that we've been up to.
Feature Updates
Users can now import new styles from a docx document into an existing template. This allows you to add new docx. styles to your template that were not present in the document when it was originally uploaded to Avvoka.
Clicking on the styles tab now opens a new window showing active and inactive styles - allowing you to manage your styles with ease.
Users can now mass replace styles that are currently being used in the Avvoka template.
Avvoka now has a history log where you will be able to see an overview of every version of a document ever created.
Each time you save a document, a new version of the document will be automatically created. This will be viewable in the history log.
You can now publish templates to make them visible in the Create area, so that users with New document rights can go ahead and start drafting from this template.
Organisation support users can port a template, they now have the option to release a template version to their organisation on demand.
Avvoka joins the latest cohort of LawTechUK's LawTech Sandbox
During the legal geek conference, it was revealed that Avvoka will be joining the latest cohort of LawTechUK's LawTech Sandbox! The aim of the Sandbox is to help pioneer companies fast track transformative ideas, products and services that address the legal needs of business and society.
Data in my contracts: why should I care?â Feat. Eliot Benzecrit
In this article, Eliot Benzecrit, one of our founders, reflects on the true value of contracts and how innovation can unleash new opportunities for deal teams.
Document automation and its potential in the legal sector (article in Spanish and Portuguese)
Our BD and Account Manager, Macarena Valenzuela, provides an overview of the key elements in document automation and how it can be used in the legal sector.
Avvoka was at the Legal Geek in-person conference this year. Thanks to all who came down to meet our team! We hope you got a chance to spot us in our swanky new Avvoka team T-shirts.
The LegalTech Vacation Scheme: with Amy Conroy, Giles Thompson and David Howorth
Co-founded by our very own Amy Conroy, the LegalTech Vacation Scheme aims to prepare students to embrace the integration of technology into the legal profession.
From the 16-20 August 2021, the LegalTech Vacation Scheme provided practical opportunities for students to engage with the world of legal technology. Our Head of Growth, Giles Thompson, prepared a demo of Avvoka for the students while one of our Founders, David Howorth, mentored the Hackathon participants.
All in all, the event was a huge success with 300 attendees. Avvoka also provided the certificates to the attendees. We hope to see you next year!
Avvoka is pleased to be a proud event partner of the 2021 SMU LIT Hackathon. On 13 August 2021, Brian Wong, our Head of APAC, gave a talk titled "Document automation - What is it? And why should you care?" to over 50 students.
The SMU LIT Hackathon is the largest intervarsity legal hackathon in Singapore, bringing together students from all Singapore Institutes of Higher Learning to tackle legal tech problems faced in law, business and community.
Can we solely rely on financial metrics to assess the use of document automation?This brand new blog post by one of our partners, Echo Legal, expands on the following questions:
Are financial metrics alone the sole primary reason to switch to automation?
How accurately demonstrable are the financial elements for choosing the switch?
What other kinds of benefits exist and how can we measure those?
As well as the great financial benefits document automation can bring, the quality of life is another considerable aspect mentioned that cannot be overlooked when choosing to use document automation.
We love partnering with different organisations to ensure that we meet great businesses in an even wider range of industry sectors. As such, Avvoka is proud to announce that we are now partners with RICS. RICS delivers confidence through respected global standards, adopted and enforced by over 134,000 qualified and trainee professionals across the built and natural environment. This partnership will allow us to bring our first-class document automation technology to their diverse clientele.
In this podcast, one of our founders, Eliot Benzecrit, discusses the importance of data in contracts, whether automation tools should aim to co-exist with Microsoft Word and how to achieve interoperability of legaltech platforms.
Transforming Legal Processes and Education Ft. Eliot Benzecrit and Giles Thompson
In this podcast, Giles Thompson, our Head of Growth, and one of our founders, Eliot Benzecrit discuss the problems that Avvoka is looking to solve and how remote work has increased the need for process automation. The duo also explore the changes in the legal market and provide some insights on the future of technology in Law.
We are hosting a workshop over Zoom where we will introduce participants to the concept of document automation! Weâll also give people the chance to get hands-on with document automation, by automating a contract alongside us during the workshop. The idea is that participants will learn a whole new skill from the comfort of their homes which can be taken forwards and further developed.
Course Two of Avvoka On-Demand is now available! These courses are for any Avvoka users, whether you are templating, getting started with your free trial account, or creating document drafts. We wanted to create an On-Demand version of our first class training which is available when you are.
If you are currently in university, an exciting way to get involved with LegalTech is taking part in a Campus Ambassador Scheme! You will gain a deep understanding of LegalTech, industry experience, mentoring sessions, as well as an invaluable chance to expand your professional network. At Avvoka, we have just openedour applications for this year's Campus Ambassador Scheme. Here is what some of our previous ambassadors had to say about the programme:
âWorking with Avvoka showed the varying opportunities in the legal field. Perhaps the standout highlight was receiving feedback from peers about how much they had learned from the Avvoka Academy and the subsequent interest in legal tech they had developedâ - Jacob, University of Nottingham.
Meet Ziggy! On the weekends, Caitlin loves to take her out of London and on long walks in the countryside.
Becca's seaside saunters
Tilly scratches the door to Beccaâs office before dinner as she can sense that itâs time to go on her daily walk (and for Becca to get away from her desk). Itâs a perfect symbiotic relationship, and the sunset views are stunning by the beach and along the South Downs.
Our APAC Team's Delicious Dinner!
A few members of our APAC team met up for a delicious Italian dinner! Here's to many more dinners like these!
