Open Source Legal Forms

Select the document you want to create from our template library. All of our templates are provided by lawyers to ensure they are accurate, complete and up-to-date. We are pleased to offer the largest collection of free legal forms on the internet – 2,000+ and growing! Some of our forms are now tailored to country-specific use, and we will continue to increase this number. We are committed to providing the highest quality forms on the internet – so committed that we pay $50 to anyone who can prove that one of our forms does not comply with state laws. Don`t forget to bookmark this page (Ctrl + D) and check back regularly to see our progress. If we do not have the form you need, please send us an email, and we will endeavour to provide you with this form in the near future. I really enjoyed the post. I think importing OSS workflows into legal practice is crucial. GitHub Legal, for example, runs on GitHub and tries as much as possible to work with machine-readable plaintext/markdown, pull requests, etc.

I`m sure millions (if not billions) of dollars are wasted every year simply because the industry is tied to MS Word and has essentially the same flow that lawyers used twenty or thirty years ago. In my life as a law firm, whole days of work have certainly been lost when someone discovered that they had worked in the wrong version of a briefing, or because it was impossible to tell what the latest version of a document was or what nomenclature we should use when renaming a file. Nowadays, it is a disgrace. Once your legal document is created and adapted to your needs, it`s up to you! Save it, print it and share it with whomever you want. Don`t waste your time on complex and expensive legal services. Create your contracts online with our easy-to-use legal document software. Don`t let legal issues distract you from building your business I think we tried to be very close to what you`re speculating with Lawful.ly, but (among other things) we didn`t have a lead until we could solve everything. Docracy is GREAT as a Github for legal documents, but it suffers exactly from the problems that Github has when it comes to figuring out not only what good code is, but also good code for you, unless you`re already a programmer. Obviously, this is a problem if you`re trying to provide legal documents to non-lawyers and you`ve already addressed most of the most important issues. I think there`s a great opportunity there, and someone is going to do it right. The text of the case may be the closest, but it does not seem to be the main focus at this stage. Docracy is currently perhaps the most advanced online repository.

It allows any member with an account to upload a legal document that is shared with the rest of the community. Each other member can then perform a private customization of the document, which they can then invite others to work on and sign. Other members can also create a public branch of the document to publicly edit and customize the document so that other members can use their version. There is every reason to believe that automation, free software version control and open source legal documents will lead to better legal deliverables, the dismantling of legal cartels, a reduction in the cost of legal services, and greater access to legal representation for marginalized citizens. deprived of their rights or simply means. Currently, the graduate of a „subordinate“ law school, or really anyone who is unwilling or unable to work for one of the posh law firms, does not have the opportunity to appear before the in-house lawyer of a large technology company (or any other) company. As in a true monopoly, companies are forced to go through law firms to access legal talent, and these talents are radically homogeneous in terms of experience and background. Here is a brief inventory of projects that create such open repositories + form fill interfaces. Lawyers just need to go beyond this proprietary format and adopt an open source format that can be freely shared and adapted to legal needs. All attempts to compile documents are basically hampered by finding a common denominator such as rtf, or they have to parse different Word formats. The other thing about Github is an ethic of openness and transparency.

Anyone can see the work product, and anyone who signs up for an account can fork the work product and customize it into a new version. The Github template targets a collaborative workflow that prioritizes opening up your work product to the community, borrowing and editing from others, and receiving criticism from community members who think they can improve your work. Developing comprehensive terms of service and privacy policies that cover everything was a battle that many business owners like to postpone. With Avodocs, we were able to create 90% of our legal documents in less than an hour. Amazing Other ideas? I really need a Github for legal documents, but I`m trying to make do with what`s already there.