Our mission

We aim to make the legal document creation process as efficient as possible, enabling our users painlessly to produce flawless and professional legal documents.

Legal document creation often involves highly-trained lawyers repeating work they have previously done, and repeating work that has been done by other lawyers. By eliminating many kinds of repetition, we can significantly reduce the time and trouble it takes to produce a legal document from a template. This also reduces the associated costs. In automating some of the document production processes, we can eliminate many types of human error.

Under the hood, our modular templates managements system allows us to keep all our templates up to date with the latest legal changes and drafting innovations.

Our team

Alasdair: Alasdair Taylor has been advising clients on questions of intellectual property and information technology law since the year 2000. He has expertise in the law relating to software, cloud services, data and AI, and is currently partner at Keystone Law. Previous firms include Taylor Ben Artzi, ClaydenLaw, SEQ Legal, Manches and Mayer Brown. Alasdair founded the Docular templates business and is primarily responsible for the functional design of the Docular software system. He has also overseen the creation and maintenance of the Docular template library.

Michael: Michael Townshend is an expert designer, developer and information architect. Michael was responsible for designing and creating both the software that powers Docular and our visual design and brand identity.

Olga: Our operations manager is Olga Braun, responsible for day-to-day management of the Docular business, customer and partner relationships and coordinating Docular's international team. Olga has rich experience in business management, having worked in management for a major UK corporate, a specialist consultancy and a European university. She also works with Alasdair at Keystone Law and has interests in EU and UK intellectual property, data protection and AI laws.

Ori: Ori Taylor, our junior developer, assists Michael with the development and maintenance of the Docular software and website. He is passionate about software, and has experience in a wide range of languages and frameworks, including Python, C#, C++, PHP, CakePHP, Javascript, JQuery and MATLAB.

We should also mention our talented illustrator, John Taylor, who helped bring these pages to life.

Our company

The Docular website and software is owned and operated by Docular Limited. We are based in South Oxfordshire, on the banks of the Thames – but may also be found working in London, Bristol and/or Cape Town.

The Docular business dates back to 2007, when Alasdair started giving away website legal documents in order to promote his legal consulting business. Users started asking for if they could pay for licences to use the documents, and the business grew from there.

Alasdair teamed up with Michael in 2015 to create the Docular software, which was first published in 2016. Olga joined us in 2023, and Ori in 2024.

Our partners

We have long-standing relationships with a range of law firms covering all areas of business law.

Whilst Docular can do many things, it is no substitute for an experienced lawyer. Lawyers can help you with structuring businesses and transactions, producing standard and one-off contracts and other legal documents, negotiating contracts, avoiding and managing disputes, and of course tailored legal advice.

If you need professional legal help, please get in touch, and we will endeavour to match you with the right lawyer.