New On The Legal Internet

Delia Venables, Venables.co.uk. Sunday, November 13, 2005.

Capsoft has launched a free library of over 1,000 useful government forms aimed at the legal and business sectors. The forms are provided in HotDocs format; registered users download the necessary HotDocs software (without charge) and also the packs of forms in the particular work areas they want to use and are then able to manage and create the forms on their own system. This is "second time around" for Scottish firm Capsoft. In September 1999, they launched Everyform, a service for providing free government forms on the Internet. This was very popular and almost half of the UK's legal firms registered on the website. There was also a paid service for updated forms calls Forms Assured which was obviously the income generating part of the scheme but many people were quite happy with the free part of the service. In 2001, managing director Russell Shepherd sold Everyform to Reed Elsevier and the service continued on broadly the same lines until May this year, when LexisNexis Butterworths terminated the free part of the service. This apparently led to many unhappy users of the free service contacting Russell Shepherd and asking for their free forms again! So here they are.