Wills for Heroes Foundation and HotDocs Team Up to Provide Free Legal Services to Nation’s First Responders
Friday, July 09, 2010
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Company donates document automation software for the rapid generation of custom legal documents
HotDocs Corporation, the global leader in document automation technology, today announced that it has agreed to continue the software and services donation program to the Wills for Heroes Foundation.
Wills for Heroes is a non-profit organization that offers free legal services to firefighters, police personnel, and other public servants that respond first in life-threatening situations.
Under the agreement, HotDocs will provide up to ten copies of HotDocs Developer 10, the company’s flagship technology, for each legal jurisdiction in which the Wills for Heroes Foundation operates.
The HotDocs donation program began in 2002, at which point, HotDocs was owned by LexisNexis. In late 2009, Capsoft UK, the largest distributor of HotDocs outside the US, purchased the software business, and has since been renamed HotDocs Ltd.
“We’re happy to assist the Wills for Heroes Foundation,” commented Russell Shepherd, CEO of HotDocs Corporation. “It provides a valuable service to thousands of first responders willing to risk their own lives for the public good. We’re honored to be involved with this great organization.”
The Wills for Heroes Foundation began in 2001 in the wake of the 9/11 disaster and consists primarily of volunteer attorneys and other legal professionals.
“HotDocs software, which dramatically reduces the time it takes to prepare custom legal documents, enables volunteers to provide individualized, quality estate planning documents to first responders on a much broader scale,” said Anthony Hayes, one of the organization’s co-founders and a partner at Nelson Mullins. “HotDocs is a critical component of the Wills for Heroes Program and we’re delighted that the new owners of HotDocs are continuing to support our program. To date, Wills for Heroes has produced more than 10,000 free wills and collateral documents for our heroic public servants.”
For more information, visit www.hotdocs.com and www.willsforheroes.org.
