Signwell

NDAs and routine contracts take 3-7 days because every single one routes through legal — no self-service for standard terms

Signed contracts vanish into email threads and shared drives — when a dispute arises, nobody can find the executed version

Managing 200+ open PI cases with medical records, deadlines, and lien tracking in spreadsheets — one missed statute of limitations and the firm faces malpractice

Firm uses separate tools for intake, documents, billing, and e-signatures that don't talk to each other — opening a new matter means entering the same client info 4 times across systems that should but don't share data

Court filing is a logistics nightmare — every jurisdiction has different rules (e-filing vs paper, specific cover sheets, local requirements), deadlines are non-negotiable, and small firms can't afford a full-time filing runner or courthouse messenger

Post-incorporation corporate housekeeping costs $500-2,000 per task through an attorney — board consents, stock certificates, 83(b) elections, option grants are all templated documents with variable fields that shouldn't require a lawyer every time

Solo or small firm attorney pays $25-50/month per user for DocuSign or Adobe Sign just to get engagement letters and retainer agreements signed — the firm sends maybe 15 documents a month and doesn't need enterprise features, but there's no middle ground between free tools with no audit trail and expensive enterprise platforms

In-house IP team at a tech company files 200+ patent applications per year and each one takes a patent agent 40-60 hours to draft from the inventor disclosure — the bottleneck isn't the invention, it's the labour-intensive process of writing specifications, claims, and figures that meet USPTO requirements, while the patent agent's queue grows faster than they can work through it

High-conflict custody case generates hundreds of text messages, emails, and voicemails between co-parents — the family law attorney needs to find the three messages that prove a pattern of interference, but they're scattered across platforms and the client's phone screenshots are inadmissible hearsay

Litigation team preparing a patent invalidity defence needs to find prior art that anticipates or renders obvious each claim element — manually building claim charts across dozens of references takes weeks and costs $50-100K in associate time, and missing one key reference could lose the case

Litigation partner needs an expert witness in underwater welding metallurgy for a maritime injury case — the paralegal spends two weeks cold-calling university departments and professional associations, the expert they find has never testified before, and the opposing counsel's Daubert challenge succeeds because nobody checked the expert's litigation history

When my litigation team receives 100,000 documents in discovery and the partner wants an early case assessment by Friday, I need to understand the key facts, players, and timeline before we've even started formal review — but right now the only option is throwing associate hours at it and hoping we surface the right documents

Small firm sends 50 engagement letters a month and each one requires manually creating the PDF, emailing it, waiting for the client to print-sign-scan-return, then following up twice — the whole process takes 3 days per client when it should take 3 minutes

County DA's office processes 8,000 cases per year with 12 attorneys and a legacy case management system from the early 2000s that can't share data with law enforcement's records system — every case requires manual re-entry of arrest data, incident reports are printed and re-scanned, and the office has no real-time visibility into which cases are approaching statutory deadlines

Every new legal tech tool means another vendor login, another security review, another budget line — the in-house team just wants something that works within the Microsoft stack they already have without adding procurement complexity

I need a solicitor for my house purchase but every firm I call quotes £3,000-5,000 and can't tell me the total cost upfront — I end up choosing blindly, getting surprise bills, and the process drags on for months with no visibility into what's actually happening

Firm paying $40/user/month for DocuSign Enterprise to get 'legal-grade' e-signatures realizes they're using maybe 10% of the features — they need compliant signatures with audit trails, not a contract lifecycle platform, and they're paying 4x what a simpler tool would cost

Attorney sends a contract for counterparty signature but has no proof the document was delivered and opened — when the deal collapses or a deadline is missed, there's no evidence trail of what was sent, when it arrived, and whether the other side actually read it

Small legal tech startup or law firm building a client portal needs to embed e-signatures into their application — DocuSign's API starts at $300+/mo with complex pricing tiers, and the integration documentation requires a dedicated developer to navigate