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Re:Show HN: Ironclad – an automated legal assistant by pseudonym01 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @02:58PM (#9820862)
My initial thought was seems like a useful product, my second thought was legal documents seem like the kind of thing that almost always require a manual overview to make sure everything is in order.

So my question would be something along the line of how do you address this seemingly unavoidable necessity?

Re:Show HN: Ironclad – an automated legal assistant by jwb119 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:00PM (#9820880)
That's where Dropbox is really cool actually. They have a bunch of great collaboration tools. The way we handle it is we do all the admin stuff - collecting info, filling in the docs, putting in tags for e-signatures - then we drop it in a dropbox folder so that humans can edit the document. When the humans are done editing, just tell Ironclad to pick it back up and we'll go from there :)
Re:Show HN: Ironclad – an automated legal assistant by pseudonym01 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:01PM (#9820892)
Again sounds interesting and (not necessarily in a negative way) kinda puts me in the mind of a process server/courier could be useful I'll keep it in mind
Re:Show HN: Ironclad – an automated legal assistant by jwb119 on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:04PM (#9820910)
Awesome, thanks for checking it out and for the feedback! This kind of stuff is great.

I think the process server / courier is an interesting analogy. We're definitely not trying to replace lawyers here, but we do want to separate out the admin work and make the whole process more efficient.