Legal Opinions - How is the automated content maintained?

A licence of the Clarilis platform includes a fully managed, PSL-led managed service. Clarilis removes the maintenance headache as our managed service includes free and unlimited updates to the questionnaire and automation for the life of your subscription.

Legal Opinions - Is training provided?

Absolutely, we can provide face-to-face training so your users can learn how to use the system. Not that in depth training is required, as one Partner from a client firm puts it, “if you can buy something on Amazon you can use Clarilis”.

Security FAQs - Is it secure?

Yes, Clarilis is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), is ISO 27001 certified by the British Standards Institute (BSI), and is used by the largest law firms on the planet, having passed their rigorous Infosec processes. (Click here to see some of our customers). You can read more about our security here .

Security FAQs - Will it work with Single Sign On ("SSO")?

Yes, Clarilis will help you to integrate the system with your firm’s SSO mechanism.

LEGAL OPINIONS

Your Legal Opinions Automated

Deep automation of legal opinions with Clarilis.

Transactions requiring legal opinions are often complex and high-value, involving multiple documents, parties and jurisdictions. Clarilis deep automation helps navigate this complexity. Our carefully constructed questionnaire collects detailed information about the transaction and uses that information, together with drafting logic, to accurately tailor the wording used in the opinion statements.

Our experienced banking and finance PSLs (averaging over ten years PQE) lead the team that design, build, test, deliver, and maintain legal opinion automations for you, based on your firm’s templates / model forms.

The more complex the opinion, the greater the rewards of automation and this is why many leading firms choose Clarilis to automate their opinion drafting. The Clarilis approach is far more sophisticated than simply resolving square brackets or filling gaps in a template opinion.

Reduce the risk of human error

Ensure adherence to your firm's standards and opinion policies

Automated and maintained by our PSL-led team

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90%

Reduce the time spent on producing and reviewing first drafts

Maintained

Maintenance of the automation is included within your licence fee

100+ firms

Law firms trust Clarilis

Clarilis is trusted by leading finance teams, including:

“We have worked with Clarilis to automate a wide spectrum of documents including some particularly complex ones. An example would be our legal opinions which contain a vast number of options and permutations: the simplicity of the questionnaire that Clarilis were able to create belies the complexity of the automation which sits behind it. This has made a huge difference to the team and allows the fee earners to focus on providing legal advice rather than becoming bogged down in a repetitive drafting task."

Jill Moore, General Counsel Partner

Burness Paull

Legal Opinions are an ideal fit for deep automation

Whilst legal opinions may not always be the longest of documents, they can be complex, often running to hundreds of thousands of permutations of logic when automated deeply. They need to be underpinned by a highly structured approach, with guidance and risk control at its very heart - all whilst maintaining the flexibility for the evolution of the templates / model forms over time. This makes them the perfect candidate for automation with Clarilis.

Clarilis automation focuses on the structure of legal opinions, not just the square brackets and gaps to fill. Some of the many considerations are as follows:

Entities

The Clarilis questionnaire collects information about the obligors, including their jurisdiction of incorporation and company type. Statements in the opinion are then tailored accordingly. This is especially helpful if you need to cater for multiple obligors and/or foreign obligors. The automation will ensure that, for instance, foreign obligors are excluded from ‘capacity’ opinions.

Documents

Information is gathered about the documents that are to be covered by the opinion. The automation can create multiple categories of documents, and ensure that each opinion catches only the correct category. This is especially helpful if you need to cater for multiple types of document, such as foreign law documents and security documents. The automation will ensure, for instance, that foreign documents are excluded from ‘enforceability’ opinions.

Qualifications and assumptions

Clarilis automation links each opinion to the accompanying qualifications and assumptions. This is especially helpful if you need to tailor your opinions to the transaction in hand; you can be confident that if you add or remove an opinion from the draft, the appropriate qualifications and assumptions will move with it.

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The rigour and consistency of our approach significantly reduces the risk of drafting errors

Legal Opinions are fraught with risk and there is no margin for error in the output. The Clarilis platform captures best practice and reduces the risk of human error, ensuring law firms draft accurate and high-quality documentation time and time again.

This consistency, combined with extensive built in guidance and verification within the Clarilis questionnaire, means that drafting can be delegated to more junior lawyers without increasing risk, freeing up senior resource to add greater value to transactions overall.

The impact on supervision and formal review is also material; Clarilis enables faster review of first drafts, typically reducing the review time of a senior lawyer by 50%.

Automated precedents do not stand still

Our managed service makes sure automations are continually evolving to reflect changes in precedents. This enables Clarilis to capture best practice and ensures it’s used as the basis for all automated drafts. In short, with our automations, you can be certain your lawyers are always working from the same and most accurate precedents when drafting legal opinions.

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Why do Finance lawyers use Clarilis?

Adherence to your firm's standards

Remove risk with the consistency, adherence to firm policy, and accuracy that deep automation provides

Delegate to junior team members with confidence

In-platform guidance, drafting notes and controls support junior lawyers to reduce drafting risk and enable delegation to less experienced team members.

Drastically reduce drafting time & review time

Cut drafting time by around 90% and review time by around 50%.

Improve capacity

Deep automation not only reduces the time spent on producing and reviewing drafts it also frees up lawyers' time. This creates more capacity to take on additional, higher value work.

Price more competitively

Win work your firm couldn't previously - Clarilis lets you compete on price without compromising margin.

Single intelligent questionnaire

All driven from a single intelligent questionnaire.

Legal Opinions FAQs

General FAQs

Clarilis is the combination of an intelligent drafting platform, designed to handle complex automation, and a lawyer-led managed service. Clarilis delivers transformational outcomes for law firms and leading organisations globally, enabling them to improve margin, increase capacity, provide superior client service, aid recruitment and retention, and mitigate risk.

Clarilis is trusted by transactional lawyers to draft complex documentation across a range of practice areas such as banking, corporate, real estate and private client.

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Security FAQs

No, there are no plugins or software required, if you can access the internet via a browser, you can use Clarilis. There is nothing to set up and no coding required.

Once you have created a draft document using Clarilis, you can simply download the resulting Word or pdf documents directly onto your laptop/PC. From there, you can save them to your DMS, in your chosen folder.

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