Ensuring eSignature Lawfulness for Legal Services in United States

How to eSign a document: e-signature lawfulness for Legal Services in United States

hey y'all zack laser here the legal tech advisor at lawyerist today i'd like to show you the eSignatures feature on a practice panther and this is helpful obviously when you're going to a more remote ready practice or simply when your clients are a little bit more on the go or don't want to use a printer scanner or frankly fax machine this will allow you to send eSignatures send documents for eSignature through the app directly so let's dive right in right here we have a file we've opened up a matter or a contact for oliver hardy we go to eSignature and then we do a new eSignature request up at the upper left hand corner so our contact this goes ahead and fills it out our contact is oliver hardy our matter is going to be something related to stan laurel and this is going to be let's call a lease agreement so we want to have signatories let's just say i'm going to sign it and oliver hardy's going to sign it we're going to request the signature in that order here is the email that is going to be sent out for that send it to prepare for signing so the document loads and it looks a lot like hello sign which is great because a lot of us are very used to using that but it's very much like or any of the other signature eSignature platforms out there so here's the document that i loaded we can add a lot of things into here but right now i'm really just concerned with the tenant signature and this is assigned to oliver hardy we're gonna put his name here so again assigned to oliver hardy and then we've got date signed then we're going to do the landlord signature print name date signed so there's more that you can do in here but i just want to show you a quick little shot of that so now we send this it says your signature request has been sent so let's take a look so here we are here's what the email looks like we click into review and sign takes us to [Music] this document pretty simple to read a lot of this information could have been filled out previously but again what we want is here so we click to sign [Music] and then that's our date click continue i agree to be legally bound there we are so let's reload this go to our eSignature and it's still out for signature because zach laser needs to sign it so here's our next review and sign and just as a shortcut i obviously use the same email address but this would be the second user so we scroll down click to sign [Music] continue then we agree and we have a document so let's refresh this go to our eSignature so then we get a note that it's been signed so we have view sign document and it will download it so i'm not going to download it because we don't need to see it just yet let's refresh this and we can see that everybody has signed the document is right there again we could download it we could download the audit trail and we'd be able to show that this thing was signed so that is a quick look at the eSignature capability from practice panther as you can see it's built right in the workflow is relatively simple it is powered by hello sign and it should be something that that most people are uh reasonably familiar with so if that helps i hope you learned something and i will see you next time around the lawyer's ecosystem