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Why Choose ProDoc
Alan Schoolcraft
Founder/CEO, ProDoc, Inc.
In law school, they sure didn’t tell us what a tough business the
law practice is. When we graduated, many of us expected to simply open
an office, put our name in the phone book, and then watch as the clients
came running into the office.
“I opened my small office
practice in September 2004. Thankfully, I realized ‘in
the nick of time’ that my business would not -- could not
-- survive without ProDoc. To date, I can get by just fine
without support staff because this software allows me to do just
about everything with ease and efficiency. Thank you ProDoc!”
Helen D. Jones, Esq.
Cape Coral, FL |
The cold reality is that a law practice is a business and if you don’t
run it like a business, you are not going to make the money you expect. For more than 20 years, I have watched many of my friends struggling
to make the living they had assumed their law license guaranteed. Many
of them are brilliant lawyers, but they don’t really know how to
run their practice as a business.
I created ProDoc because I was tired of working long hours just to pay
the overhead. I had a growing practice, but it seemed my overhead was growing
faster than my income. For a while, I was falling into the same trap as
so many
of my colleagues.
The “Longer Hours or Hire More Staff” Paradox
Too many of us think that the only way to handle more business is to either
work longer hours or hire more staff.
That kind of thinking just doesn't make sense. With the first option, you
work so hard you can’t enjoy the benefits of your labor. With the
second option, the benefits of all of your hard work fly out the window
as you pay ever-increasing support staff salaries.
According to a recent study of the legal industry:
| Attorneys on average spend 43 percent of their time creating
documents and their support staffs spend an astounding 60
percent of their time doing the same thing. Most attorneys
are stunned to learn that the single, largest time killer in a law
office is paperwork. If you are serious about taking more money home,
then you must make your office more efficient. To become more efficient,
you must attack the one task that consumes more hours than any other
task in your office — creating and editing documents. |
That’s what ProDoc is all about — we
dramatically slash the time you and your staff spend drafting documents!
Here at ProDoc, our motto is “Twice the documents in half the
time.” Well, I actually believe it’s more like “three
or four times the documents in half the time” but we were afraid
nobody would believe that, so we actually understate the benefits of
using ProDoc.
“ProDoc allows me to offer my clients
effective and efficient family law or criminal law representation.
It keeps the fees coming in for this type of work, without causing
me to get completely covered up with it, so that I can have more
time to handle my PI cases.
Being a solo practitioner, ProDoc frees me up to do more things
that are important to my PI practice, while allowing me to take
on client matters in other areas (family and criminal law) and
keep my practice more profitable.
For what I pay to ProDoc every month, it saves me five times that
much in productivity. It's fantastic!”
Joseph M. Layman
Waco, TX
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How ProDoc Saves You Time and Increases Accuracy
We have more than 20 full-time staff attorneys who develop our automated forms
to handle much of the repetitive and inefficient paperwork in a law practice.
Our forms systems automatically cut and paste, renumber paragraphs, merge
data, and perform all the other routine tasks that go into drafting completed
documents.
While you and your staff can certainly do all these steps manually
with your word processor, ProDoc handles all of them, and a whole lot
more, automatically in a matter of seconds, rather than minutes
or hours.
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The
Story of ProDoc
I practiced real estate law and I had a sweet
deal with a large title company. I provided
them with the first plain paper fax machines
and they sent me all their document orders.
The problem was that my overhead was killing
the profits. I kept hiring more staff to keep
up with the workload so my net income inched
up incrementally instead of skyrocketing like
I expected.
To make the process more efficient I started
playing with macros, simple database merges,
and anything else I could think of.
They were an improvement but nothing I found
could meet my most fundamental requirement—logic
internal to the form—enabling
it to cut and paste the right paragraphs...
according to my needs.
Literally, that’s what led
me to learn computer programming... so I could “create” ProDoc.
Alan
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Draft one document or multiple documents
simultaneously in ProDoc and you will discover something astonishing;
you enter information such as names, addresses, and dates just once and
ProDoc reuses that information in every place and in every
document you
draft for the rest of the case.
Because we know how important current forms are to you, we regularly
update our forms systems and automatically send you the updates.
We also make it easy to let you customize your documents because we
know no software can always create the perfect document in all
situations. On the other hand, no other software has ever been closer
to producing perfect documents. It truly is revolutionary and
I guarantee that it will pay for itself many times over, month after
month.
How ProDoc Makes You a Better Lawyer
Yes … in addition to saving you time...ProDoc
will make you a better lawyer.
First, you will generate even the most complex document in minutes instead
of hours. If it is a simple motion, letter, order, etc., it’ll
be ready to go with virtually no further editing in your word processor.
But, if it is a complex document, a pleading for instance, it will be
80 - 90% done for you. Most of our users call it "a great starting place"
and it only takes minutes to get you there. You’ve
just freed up hours and hours — formerly devoted to editing just
the boiler plate — that you can now focus on the legal issues. After
all, that’s
really what your client is paying you for, isn’t it?
Just that one document—generated in ProDoc—could have freed
you from your office one or two hours earlier today. What are you waiting
for?
Here’s Just One Way You Boost Your Income
With ProDoc
I know… I know… you’re a lawyer out to save the
world and protect the innocent. But, when I went to law school I expected
my JD to guarantee me a better than average income. I find that most
lawyers I talk to feel like I did... we're just not paid enough
for what we put up with.
So, let's talk about a simple way that ProDoc
will boost your profitability.
With ProDoc,
one secretary can carry the workload of two… sometimes three.
Now you could boost your case load without increasing your staffing — your
accountant will love it (and so will you) — and, you'll all go
home at more reasonable hours.
If you don't have a legal assistant, then you really need
ProDoc... and you can get along just fine without one for years to come.
Basically, it’s nothing more than leverage. Put simply, ProDoc
enables you to multiply yourself, and your legal support staff, producing
more results with less effort.
ProDoc Is Flexible
“ProDoc was definitely worth trying
out for a month without any cost obligation. I am a solo
practitioner which means I do everything — from answering
phones all the way through conducting the trial. ProDoc has
saved me a tremendous amount of time.
I travel a lot and
the ability to take ProDoc with me is extremely beneficial because
when I come back to the office all I have to do is plug my laptop
into the printer and print!!
This is definitely a must-have
tool for the solo practitioner and small law firm.
Breezi K. Stanislaus, Esq.
Orlando, FL
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ProDoc generates amazingly customized documents
using the logic and intelligence our attorney-developers program into
each of our automated systems. Whether you’re preparing pleadings,
motions, orders, or any of the thousands of automated forms that we supply,
ProDoc knows just what questions to ask to create the finished document
for you. And, if by chance, unusual facts of a particular case require
additional customizing, it's easy to do any final editing in your
word processor.
But that is not all there is to ProDoc’s flexibility. You can
easily add your favorite language to our master templates… modify
the formatting and fonts for the finished documents…. add your
preferred footer to the finished documents. And, you can even add your
own forms into ProDoc.
ProDoc Is Easy to Learn
Finally, you might be wondering how difficult ProDoc is to install
and learn. Well, ProDoc has always had a reputation for being easy to
use. Our latest version, however, is even easier! With all the innovations
we have added to the latest version of ProDoc, you will be producing
documents with unprecedented speed and accuracy in less than 15 minutes
from the time you install it — it’s just that simple and
user friendly!
A Proven Track Record
Take a look at our track record:
“I was so far behind yesterday because
I let my secretary go a week ago. I had two divorces, one contempt
motion and two modifications I had to do.
I was able to rip those
out so fast that I can’t really say enough good words about
how the system saves time, especially in Family Law.”
Carol Myers
Pasadena, TX
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- We’ve been around since 1991.
- Fifteen firms that joined us that year still actively use ProDoc.
- More than 32,000 lawyers and support staff today use ProDoc.
- Not a single one of them is tied to us by anything other than our
standard month-to-month subscription program.
I think you will agree — this is a remarkable track record.
Isn't it time for you to discover ProDoc for yourself?
Sincerely,

Alan Schoolcraft
President/Attorney
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