LSF turns complex legal deals into collaborative proposals

186 Avocats is a business-law firm founded in 2012, with offices in London, Paris and Nantes. It advises a varied clientele — major groups, investment funds, SMEs, executives — across the principal disciplines of business law, in both counsel and litigation. Alongside it, La Solution Formalités handles the legal, administrative and company-secretarial formalities that keep its clients' operations moving.

In a practice built on precision, every client engagement opens with a proposal. For a firm whose reputation rests on the clarity and rigour of its advice, that proposal is a first impression — and for years it was the one part of the work that did not yet match the standard of the rest.

Legal proposals are complex by nature — structured offers, multiple scenarios, careful wording, every clause weighed. Built in static documents, they were slow to assemble, and once sent, the dialogue scattered. Client feedback arrived in long email threads, comments detached from the passages they referred to, each round of revisions another exchange.

On the firm's most complex files, that back-and-forth stretched the path to signature, and a separate document had to be chased for every signature. The advice was excellent; the proposal that carried it did not yet reflect it.

With Duodeal, the team builds structured, clear offers in minutes, drawing on reusable templates and AI assistance so the quote is often finished before the next call. Clients comment point by point directly on the page — feedback attached to the exact clause it concerns, rather than buried in email.

That alone has sharply reduced the back-and-forth and sped up signature on even the most complex files. E-signature is built into the same link, so there is no separate document to chase. And because each proposal is live, the team can see when a client has opened and reviewed it — which tells them precisely when to follow up.