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Over the past decade, businesses have adopted eSignatures to streamline internal approval processes and reduce contracting time with customers and partners. Transactional practices seem like obvious applications for using electronic signings. But for a variety of reasons, only a small — albeit growing — percentage of transactional attorneys use eSignatures regularly on their transactions.