The authorized know-how firm Litera stated right now that’s has acquired Workplace & Dragons, a London-based firm that develops doc automation software program for regulation corporations and authorized professionals.
Workplace & Dragons focuses on software program that enables enhancing, era and evaluation of a number of paperwork in a single course of, to assist regulation corporations save time on repetitive work that might in any other case be tedious and error-prone. It may be used to edit a complete suite of paperwork with a single motion, generate suites of paperwork, redline batches of paperwork, and collaboratively evaluation the work of colleagues.
“We’re thrilled to affix forces with Litera,” stated Samuel Smolkin, founder and CEO of Workplace & Dragons. “Your entire O&D crew can be approaching board, and we’re excited in regards to the alternatives to develop our platform with Litera’s in depth assets and complementary merchandise.
“With integrations spanning Evaluate, Kira, Transact, and past, we intention to make Workplace & Dragons an important a part of each lawyer’s toolkit—serving to them save hours of repetitive work, deal with higher-value duties, and enhance their high quality of life.”
Litera stated that the mix of Workplace & Dragons with its different merchandise will permit corporations to generate, edit and redline paperwork extra rapidly and precisely and streamline workflows for attorneys.
“I’ve been so impressed by Sam’s understanding of the market, involvement within the business, and keenness for constructing robust options for the authorized tech group,” stated Avaneesh Marwaha, who final month returned to his former function as Litera’s CEO. “This acquisition is a first-rate instance of Litera’s ongoing dedication to develop our portfolio with mission-critical instruments that combine with native legal professional workflows.”
Based in 2019, Workplace & Dragons primarily serves giant regulation corporations within the U.S. and U.Okay. Earlier than beginning the corporate, founder Smolkin was an affiliate at Kirkland & Ellis in London.
As for the way the corporate bought its uncommon title, Smolkin stated in a 2021 Lawtomated interview that the unique program used command line wizards to drive the method ahead. He favored the fantasy facet of the phrase, however didn’t need to use wizard as a reputation, so he started to as a substitute name it a dragon. That, along with the truth that his regulation agency workplace typically felt like a dungeon, bought him considering of Dungeons & Dragons, and the remaining, as they are saying, is historical past.
(Workplace & Dragons was a contestant within the 2023 ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley, which I oversee.)
