For Managing Partners

Formatting isn't legal work.
But your firm is paying for it.

Every hour your fee earners spend on styling gets billed to the client or written off by the firm. Most partners never see the number. Docxedo makes it disappear.

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6 hrs
a week per fee earner on documents
~$12k
a week, at a 10-person firm
Minutes
to format, with Docxedo

Bill it or write it off: formatting costs the firm either way

Document formatting puts a firm in a lose-lose. Bill the hours to the client and you are inflating the bill, taking longer, and looking less competitive than your peers, all of which wears on the relationship. Write the hours off and the firm quietly drops revenue its fee earners earned. At roughly 6 hours a week per fee earner, a 10-person firm loses around $12,000 a week either way. Docxedo removes the choice: it applies your firm's house style to any document in one click, so formatting stops eating billable time and stops padding client bills, while every document your firm sends still befits its reputation.

The grey area most firms ignore

When a fee earner has a document open, part of that time is legal work — reviewing, drafting, getting the substance right. The rest is fixing styling that won't behave. That part isn't legal work, and it rarely bills cleanly.

However the firm handles it, someone pays:

Write it off

You absorb revenue your fee earners actually earned.

Bill the client

They feel it on the invoice — and they notice.

Hand it to a secretary

You still pay for the time, and the document waits in a queue.

Either way, the work goes out slower — and it all shapes how the client sees the firm.

The firm that stops formatting out-competes the rest

Every firm faces the same trade-off. Skip the formatting and your documents look second-rate next to the firm down the road. Do it properly and you pay for it — in written-off time, a heavier bill, or a senior lawyer doing a typesetter's job. Docxedo removes the trade-off entirely.

Out the door faster

Documents reach the client the same day — not after a formatting round-trip. Fast turnaround is the part clients actually feel, and a firm that's quick and polished is the one they instruct again.

Polished every time

Every document goes out on-brand and consistent — never the firm whose work looks a step behind the one down the road.

Nothing written off

The formatting cost disappears instead of landing on your write-offs or the client's invoice.

We don't hand your team another tool to format with. We hand them the finished document.

See what it could mean for your firm

Your team spends 60 hours a week on documents. If about 50% is formatting rather than legal work, that's 30 hours$12,000 a week spent on how documents look, not what they say. Write it off and you lose it; bill it and the client feels it.

Docxedo reduces formatting to minutes — nothing to write off, nothing to pass on.

"With Docxedo it takes me less than 3 minutes per document to get it right."

Lana, Senior Associate

One click. Your firm's style. Every document.

1

We build your house style for free

Send us a few well-formatted documents. We extract your firm's complete style and configure it in Docxedo with you.

2

Install the Word add-in across your team

Simple, one-time installation. Every fee earner gets a single button in Word. Nothing else to learn.

3

Open any document, press style, done

Any Word document — letters, deeds, court filings, AI-drafted content — formatted to your firm's standard in seconds.

Common questions from managing partners

A law firm typically loses about 6 hours per fee earner each week to document formatting: roughly $12,000 a week at a 10-person firm. Because formatting isn't usually billable legal work, that time is written off or absorbed into client bills, which makes it one of the largest hidden costs a firm carries.

Docxedo applies a firm's complete house style to any Word document in one click, so fee earners no longer reformat by hand. Formatting that took 20 to 45 minutes per document takes seconds, returning those hours to consistently billable legal work.

No. Docxedo changes only formatting and styling, such as fonts, headings, spacing, numbering, cover pages, and clause references. The words, clauses, and substance stay exactly as drafted, unless dictated otherwise by your firm's style guide.

Most firms are fully live within around six weeks. We build the firm's house style from a few example documents, a small champion group builds up excitement in the firm before it rolls out firm-wide. There's no IT project and no training required.

Yes. Docxedo processes documents in memory and discards them immediately, so nothing is stored on its servers and no document data is used for AI training.

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