To serve the needs of students, faculty, and staff, university legal teams often rely on forms to gather essential information — whether it’s for an employment contract, a landlord-tenant dispute, immigration needs, or a student complaint.
The goal of using forms in the first place is to streamline the intake process so that university counsel can deliver effective, efficient legal services to the campus community.
But here’s the thing: the way many universities use forms isn’t actually that efficient or effective.
In fact, the standard process for creating, distributing, and digitally storing forms can be exhausting, time-consuming, and error-prone for both counsel and students — not to mention expensive for the university.
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Physical forms and manual processes deliver a sub-par experience for just about everyone involved. Here are just a few of the ways they fall short:
It’s clear that manual processes and physical forms simply aren’t suited to the needs of a forward-thinking university, its students, or its legal team.
So how do you digitize legal services and take them to the next level without compromising on key issues like security, compliance, and governance? We’ll show you.
Physical forms are becoming a thing of the past while digital forms are becoming the norm. But why should your team embrace them?
It’s pretty simple: digital forms are not only easier for university clients to access and complete, they can help university counsel save significant time by streamlining the form intake process. In fact, you may not even need to call up IT to get started.
Legal teams also need to be able to securely store and collaborate on forms and other submitted documents. That’s why it’s so important that any digital form solution your organization uses be integrated with your document management system (DMS).
Educational institutions often have wide-ranging needs that put extensive demands on their legal teams. To effectively manage these demands, university counsel need tools that help optimize productivity without compromising on the most crucial requirement: compliance.
As a DMS designed specifically for legal professionals, NetDocuments is uniquely suited to the needs, workflows, and security requirements of a university’s office of general counsel. And NetDocuments' powerful solutions extend far beyond document management to email management, task management, collaboration, real-time messaging, and more.
Meanwhile, Formstack is a workplace productivity platform that offers a variety of solutions, including forms, documents, digital signatures with Sign, and more.
Together, Formstack and NetDocuments can help university legal teams deliver more efficient and effective services to students, faculty, staff, and the university as a whole — particularly when it comes to form intake.
Remember all those challenges that physical forms and manual processes create for university legal teams? See how NetDocuments and Formstack eliminate them one by one:
There’s little doubt: university legal teams need more powerful tools to work efficiently and meet the vast and varied demands of their institutions. NetDocuments and Formstack may be essential pieces of the puzzle to help your legal team reduce manual work to save time and money when dealing with forms and other documents.