Groundhog day for free legal forms

Charles Christian, Legal Technology Insider. Thursday, November 10, 2005.

It's Groundhog day in the world of electronic forms as Russell Shepherd's Capsoft business this week launches Capform, a library of over 1000 useful government and legal forms in HotDoc format that can be downloaded free of charge from the web. But haven't we heard this before? Yes, in 1999 Shepherd launched a similar service called Everyform, which within 12 months was being used by almost half the law firms in the UK. However in 2001 he sold this business to what is now LexisNexis Butterworths for "an undisclosed seven figure sum". So why the relaunch? Because earlier this year Lexis dropped the free service and introduced a subscription, so Shepherd decided to repeat his previous free forms formula.