Morae expands global document automation offering with Smarter Drafter by Tensis

Global News

11
Nov
2025

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Morae, the global leader in digital and business solutions for the legal industry, today announced a global partnership agreement with Tensis for its document automation solution, Smarter Drafter Pro. The partnership builds on Morae’s strategy of providing clients with best-in-class technology, supported by legal experts, to solve real-world legal problems and deliver quantifiable outcomes.

Understanding that document automation is a critical area for its global client base, Morae required a modern SaaS solution with seamless, deep integration with iManage Work 10 as well as the ability to scale, across both high-volume and high-complexity use cases, thus ensuring wide adoption across law firms.  Smarter Drafter, which has already been successfully deployed by Morae’s APAC team, was the clear choice.  The solution solves the problem of inefficient, error-prone legal document drafting caused by human error, disconnected systems and limited resources meaning law firms reclaim time, improve accuracy and quality and reduce risk. 

Smarter Drafter Pro’s recent innovations in data-driven automation (via API and Microsoft Power Automate) allow documents to be assembled directly from structured data, eliminating the need for manual form-filling and setting a new benchmark for efficiency.  By working with Morae and their in-house legal experts, clients get faster on boarding and first-class training, tailored implementations that align with their workflows and ongoing support from legal professionals who understand both the sector and the tech. 

Client Success: Dentons 

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, has pioneered this new approach in partnership with Morae and Tensis. With Smarter Drafter Pro, Dentons has introduced a new category of legal technology: Document Automation-as-a-Service 

By embedding automation directly into its iManage-first ecosystem, Dentons reduced processes from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, delivering an 80% time saving and a massive productivity dividend. The solution has enabled Dentons to: 

• Increase capacity without adding headcount, 
• Improve consistency and compliance across jurisdictions, 
• Accelerate onboarding of new lawyers and practice groups, and 
• Achieve stronger returns on investments in iManage and precedent content 

To support this transformation, Morae has established a Smarter Drafter Centre of Excellence in India, leveraging its in-house legal experts, to provide Dentons with scalable implementation support and content capability, while building delivery capacity for other global clients. 

Keith Fenner, Chief Revenue Officer at Morae, said: “Our focus is on solving real-word legal challenges for our clients, ensuring technology is practical, scalable, embedded in the systems they already rely on and supported by legal experts. Smarter Drafter Pro helps us deliver exactly that. By combining our expertise with Tensis’ innovative solution, we are helping firms like Dentons redefine what’s possible with document automation at a global scale.” 

Steve Hantos, CEO of Tensis, added: “This partnership with Morae represents an important milestone in our mission to redefine how law firms approach automation. Smarter Drafter Pro is not just another point solution; it is infrastructure—an intelligent layer that supports firm-wide transformation. With Morae’s global reach and delivery excellence, we can bring these benefits to the world’s leading firms.” 

Scott Connors, CIO at Dentons Australia, commented: “With Morae and Tensis, we’ve been able to operationalise automation at scale. What used to take 30 minutes now happens in seconds, freeing up our lawyers to focus on higher-value work. This isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about creating a new way of working across our entire firm.”