Founder Grahame Cohen Founded 1994 | Website [1] [2] Type of business Private | |
Genre Document Automation Technology Number of locations London, UKDetroit, Michigan, USA Key people Richard CohenGrahame CohenRichard GranatHillel HorwitzMichael Symons Products RapidocsWebRapidocs Authoring | ||
Epoq Group is a legal IT company that provides document automation systems. The company supplies legal document assembly technologies in the U.K and U.S.A which were developed to enable corporates and law firms to provide documents & contracts to customers online
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History
The company has been involved in activities surrounding the Legal Services Act 2007 and the opening up of the UK legal services market to competition from non-lawyer organisations. In 2002 Epoq provided the technology platform for a legal service delivered to MORE TH>N’s policyholders; this marked the first entry of a large consumer facing insurance brand into the UK legal services market. In 2006 Epoq’s technology was used by the Halifax to provide a subscription based web service for consumers thereby becoming the first major bank to enter the legal services market. Other services have been developed for RBS Group, Saga and the AA.
Epoq has also supplied document automation systems to the U.K legal profession. In 2008 Epoq launched the UK's largest "virtual" law firm, MyLawyer.co.uk in partnership with firms from the UK's legal 500. This was followed in 2009 with the launch of two SaaS services for law firms; DirectLaw providing a client-facing portal for self-serve document drafting and Rapidocs LawDraft providing firms with in-house document automation.
On 9 February 2015 Epoq joined forces with Tikit, part of BT Group, to bring TIkit LawDraft to legal firms in the UK.
Rapidocs
Rapidocs produces legal documents by presenting users with an interactive question and answer session which aims to mimic a face to face interview between a solicitor and a client. This data capture system is linked to an automated document that determines the right language and clauses to make up a final draft through the use of pre-programmed logic. The content for the system is developed through a legal team and maintained to track developments in the law.