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Who We Help

Tailored legal advisory and automation services for in-house legal teams, law firms, and contract managers.

About LawHawk

Law and Technology, Working as One

LawHawk is a legal operations consultancy that helps legal teams modernise how they work. We combine legal expertise and proven automation to deliver tailored, scalable solutions that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and support better outcomes.

We don’t just supply tools. We work in partnership with our clients to design and implement legal processes that align with their goals, systems, and workflows. Our focus is practical, professional, and results driven.

Our Difference

Built by Lawyers. Backed by Technology. Delivered for Results.

LawHawk stands apart by combining legal insight with technology delivery. Our team includes legal professionals who understand the realities of legal practice and operations and use that understanding to identify tech tools and partners we can work with to deliver the results legal teams require. We bring strategic thinking, deep expertise, and a flexible, co-designed approach to every engagement.

Results matter. Whether you’re in a law firm, legal team, or adjacent role in procurement or operations, we can help you gain more control, speed, and visibility without the need for major system overhauls or internal development.

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In-house Lawyers

 

In-house teams are under pressure to deliver more, faster, and with fewer resources.

Partnering with LawHawk enables you to reduce costs and scale support by automating contracts, matters, and approvals while preserving legal oversight and compliance. Our tailored advice and workflows maximise use of your Microsoft tools and empower your business to self-serve safely, saving money, improving response times and reducing reliance on manual legal input. LawHawk and partners can work alongside you and your IT team to build legal compliance and best practices out into your business processes.

Practical Legal Advice
Tap into legal expertise to improve how your team works — from contract design to smarter workflows and risk reduction.
Workflow Automation
Automate key legal processes like contracts, approvals, and digital signatures freeing your team to focus on strategic work.
Compliance Built-In
Ensure every contract, matter, and document meets internal and external compliance requirements by design, not afterthought.
Seamless Integration
LawHawk works with your Microsoft systems, eliminating the need for disruptive IT overhauls or expensive additional software.
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Law Firms

 

Law firms use LawHawk to modernise their legal operations without compromising quality.

We help firms automate complex processes, deliver faster outcomes, and improve profitability by enabling fixed-fee or value-based pricing. Our solutions are grounded in legal expertise, not just generic templates, and tailored to your firm’s systems, team, and clients.

We’re not just here to help you do your existing work more quickly.  As your long-term partner, we’ll help your firm adopt and use AI and other automation to create new and more valuable solutions for your clients and adopt business models that reward you for the value you create, not the number of hours you work.  

Document Automation
Generate consistent, high-quality legal documents at scale faster and with fewer errors.
Expert-Designed Workflows
Use pre-built market-leading legal templates created by lawyers, tailored to the realities of your practice.
Better Work
Free your legal team to win and deliver high-value legal work, rather than repetitive document creation and admin which AI is replacing.
Improve Profitability
Enable fixed-fee, value-based and subscription pricing through tech enabled delivery and lower operational overhead.
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Contract Managers

 

Contract managers need to manage complexity with consistency.

With our advice and solutions, you gain full control over the contract lifecycle from creation and approvals to signing and renewals. Our automation reduces admin, minimises delays, and improves visibility. You’ll meet deadlines, reduce risk, and deliver better outcomes without adding legal bottlenecks.

LawHawk are two-time World Commerce & Contracting award winners for operational improvement, and Gene Turner is a World CC Fellow. With deep advisory expertise and end-to-end contracting knowledge, we help you improve the entire process, not just automate it.

Intake to Execution
Manage contracts end-to-end from creation to approval, signing, and renewal tracking all in one place.
Faster Turnarounds
Reduce back-and-forth with legal and other stakeholders through clear workflows and automation.
Improved Oversight
Gain real-time visibility into contract status, obligations, and timelines minimising missed deadlines and risks.
Improved Contracts
We’ll help you improve your tender documents and contracts before automating them.  Reduce negotiation and disputes and ensure use of approved templates. 

Ready to simplify legal work?

Let’s talk about how LawHawk can help your team work faster and more effectively.

Our Valued Clients

Trusted by legal teams across New Zealand, Australia, and beyond.
We work with forward-thinking organisations that value precision, partnership, and performance.

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Victoria University
 “We have processed a lot of agreements over the year. The solution was adapted for us so we could send out many contracts at once, which has cut times by at least half.” 
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NZ Green Investment Finance
 “The solutions have resulted in significant time savings, with the drafting of loan and security documents now achievable in just an hour compared to the previous day-long process.” 
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NZ Business Brokers
 "We've got a system that makes the workflow of a business broker easier and more efficient. It means that they can go about 95% paperless. That means more time talking to buyers and sellers, and less time chasing paper." 
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Kāinga Ora

“The time savings that Kāinga Ora are seeing from the automation project are huge. Where we produce contracts using the automation we average a 75% reduction in the time taken relative to the time had we not used automation”

Our Valued Partners

Powerful solutions through strategic partnerships.

We collaborate with like-minded partners across legal tech, document management, and integration services to ensure our clients get the best results fast.

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"We've got a system that makes the workflow of a business broker easier and more efficient. That means more time talking to buyers and sellers, and less time chasing paper."

David NewportBusiness Owner

"...the nature of the whole process has significantly improved. Business owners can put all the required information into one platform, and their accountants can add information as well, which eliminates double-handling. It's a huge time saver."

David NewportBusiness Owner

"LawHawk has been very responsive and great to work with, helping turn my big ideas into reality."

David NewportBusiness Owner

"LawHawk facilitated the whole process... They make sure the transition and whole system is set up really well"

Sam BaileySenior Legal Counsel, Air New Zealand

"It was important to us to have a local provider as part of the solution - first, to ensure we had a high level of responsiveness and secondly, to support local business"

Sam BaileySenior Legal Counsel, Air New Zealand

"For me, it's brilliant. I can just sit there watching requests come through. I can see them coming in. I can see them getting signed. I can see them going into SharePoint, all signed, all data tagged."

Tim RennieGeneral Counsel, LayBuy

"I think the benefit of working with LawHawk is that they help you focus your mind on what it is that you're trying to do. If you try and go for the most complex automation at the beginning, you'll probably just get nowhere... LawHawk has been critical for us in that regard."

Tim RennieGeneral Counsel, Laybuy

"I'm now meeting deadlines for filing, and have significantly improved the accuracy of my legal documentation... The processes are more efficient, which means I've achieved a major goal - that of time savings"

David PawsonDirector

"Automation means I know things are actually under control. The system is reliable, it's working, it removes that margin of error - that gives me business confidence and peace of mind."

David PawsonDirector

"People at Foodies who have used our automated contracts love that we have embraced legal innovation, with many really enjoying the process. It's not just the legal team who have been impressed by it and how easy it is to use. It is starting to represent significant time savings for other departments as well as ours."

Julian BenefieldAssociate General Counsel

"With greater accuracy from the automation, and the related review and approval processes, there's less chance a contract template can be completed incorrectly, which reduces the legal and project risk."

Julian BenefieldAssociate General Counsel

"Their ability to look at our problem, and help us identify our requirements, has been amazing. They're lawyers as well as software developers and they've got to know us."

Yazmin JunedAssociate General Counsel, Kāinga Ora

"LawHawk's document automation system means that there's not just a huge increase in productivity gain, but there's no compromise on quality."

Yazmin JunedAssociate General Counsel, Kāinga Ora

"The time savings Kāinga Ora are seeing from the automation project are huge. Where we produce contracts using the automation we average a 75% reduction in the time taken relative to the time had we not used automation."

Bruce RidenGeneral Counsel, Kāinga Ora

"We had to consider user experience - which comes at a cost - because traditionally users don't like change. So the more we could align an upgraded product to user needs, the better off we would be."

Julian FarberSolutions Architect, MinterEllisonRuddWatts

"LawHawk and ProLegalTech were instrumental in helping us come up with a solution when it became clear that the professional services fees others charged would be commercially impractical for a New Zealand law firm."

Tila HoffmanSpecial Counsel & Business Transformation Manager, MinterEllisonRuddWatts

"We've had tremendous uptake... We are already investigating how we can automate more workflows to further support our clients and staff."

Tila HoffmanSpecial Counsel & Business Transformation Manager, MinterEllisonRuddWatts

"The solutions LawHawk has delivered for us have transformed the way we do business and have driven value right throughout our organisation"

Ian MacKenzieHead of Legal, NZGIF

"LawHawk are, in my opinion, hands down the best service provider we use. We'll definitely be working with them in the future."

Ian MacKenzieHead of Legal, NZGIF
"We've always had to find ways of working smarter. We needed to find ways to automate processes that were repeatable and were taking up time, so that we could free up capacity for high value tasks."
Ian MacKenzieHead of Legal, NZGIF

"Initial delivery was very quick - only 3 weeks after we signed the contract, and the general functionality all worked straight away."

Phil HebdenCommercial Manager, Armstrong Downes Commercial

"It's an absolute success story. Our subcontractors are now signing agreements instantly off their mobile phones as they leave the pre-let meetings."

Phil HebdenCommercial Manager, Armstrong Downes Commercial

"Just do it. It saves so much time. It's not just a benefit from a financial point of view, but culturally for your staff too - which is priceless."

Phil HebdenCommercial Manager, Armstrong Downes Commercial

"Using the online contract template has allowed us to gain efficiencies and cost savings in terms of staff time. What previously took hours now takes minutes."

Neha GoyalLegal Operations Manager, Victoria University of Wellington

"[LawHawk] are also proactive. When they're presented with an idea or a pain point, they're able to provide a practical solution using language that is easily understandable by people who may not be so good with technology"

Neha GoyalLegal Operations Manager, Victoria University of Wellington

"[LawHawk] have been quite instrumental in creating a legal operations network and introducing people together and allowing various clients to speak to each other."

Neha GoyalLegal Operations Manager, Victoria University of Wellington

Awards & Certifications

Recognised for excellence in legal technology and automation.

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