About Lawtomation
Keeping the Lawyers
Out of It.
We don't provide legal services — we provide something better: an affordable, straightforward system that makes your agreements actually enforceable.
"Not every contract can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but that shouldn't make it worthless.
Poor contracts kill young companies
Most problems businesses face can be overcome — pivoting, pushing through, adjusting your approach. But the biggest killers of young companies are poor contracts and the inability to enforce them.
If your company has $30,000 in total assets, a lawsuit that costs $10,000 isn't a viable option in a contract dispute. Even if you have a contract that says you deserve to win, the contract is worth as much as the disk space where it's saved.
Add in the cost of legal services, and it's easy to understand why many small businesses don't even attempt to get proper legal protection.
Simple templates + affordable arbitration
We don't provide legal services. Legal services are necessary for businesses, but this problem can't be solved with them alone — providing affordable legal services for everyone is exceedingly difficult.
Instead, Lawtomation lets you create templates which parallel the documents small business owners often draft for themselves — it's cheap. What Lawtomation adds is an arbitration framework to make those documents enforceable in an affordable way — it's effective.
Arbitration has always been a powerful legal doctrine. Courts want to discourage litigation. We're using that doctrine the way it was intended: to help people solve their own problems.
Built by a lawyer who wanted to do things differently
I knew from the very start of my legal career that I wanted to provide more affordable services, reach more people, embrace technology, and make the law more accessible.
But just a few years after hanging up my shingle, it became clear that for small business owners, there are some cases — too many, really — where the very fact that lawyers are involved makes things worse.
I realized that if I really wanted to get businesses the contracts they needed AND make it affordable to enforce them, I'd have to find a way to take lawyers out of the process. So Lawtomation was born.
How It Works
Arbitration — reimagined for real people
Arbitration is a commonly used legal device: an agreement between parties to allow a neutral third party — that's us — to decide the outcome of a case that would otherwise go to court. Arbitration is nothing new. What's different is how we do it.
Usually an arbitration agreement is just another long paragraph in an inch-thick binder of legalese. We simplify things. Instead of predicting every twist your contractual relationship might take, we keep it simple. You tell us how to identify who's in the right, and if a dispute comes up, we resolve it just like a judge — except we put a time limit on the arbitration.
That means you know exactly how much it will cost to resolve a disagreement, you know exactly how much money is at stake, and you know what the possible solutions are.
Sign a Lawtomation-ready agreement
Use one of our templates or add the arbitration clause to your existing contract.
A dispute arises
File your claim with Lawtomation for $300 and submit your supporting materials.
The other party responds
The defending party has 14 days to respond to the complaint.
An arbitrator decides
A neutral, Lawtomation-approved arbitrator reviews the evidence and issues a binding decision within 30 days.
Types of Services
Two categories of agreements
Contracts
Any type of contract between two people or businesses. Common examples include founders' agreements, independent contractor agreements, and customer agreements. We're happy to accommodate specific requests — just reach out.
Brand Promises
Developing trust with your employees, customers, and community is hard. Use Lawtomation's services to give the public a way to enforce promises against you — without opening yourself up to endless litigation.
Ready to protect your agreements?
Browse our templates and get started today.