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Streamline your legal document drafting with this set of integrated tools designed to increase your accuracy, mitigate risk, and save time. Choose from litigation or transaction versions to meet the needs of your practice.
Drafting Assistant instantly identifies open issues, defined term errors, inconsistencies and more, directly in the word processor as you are drafting a contract or working on a third-party legal document. You can then jump to potential drafting mistakes to review and correct if needed or share with colleagues via email.
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Within business and corporate law, reviewing and drafting documents is essential work. Drafting tools use algorithmic technology and data analysis to spot errors, compare and recommend language and build draft documents quickly.The drafting tools explained below are enhanced features that can be used to create transactional documents in an efficient way.
For transactional documents, there are integrated drafting tools, review capabilities, model documents, automated templates, and document benchmarking to reduce errors and save time. For litigation documents, document preparation and formatting for court proceedings is made quicker by the ability to seamlessly reference leading authorities while minimizing citation and copy errors.
What they do: Document proofing tools analyze documents during the drafting process. They will check a wide range of details such as defined terms, cross-references, citations, quotation marks, numbering, phrases, grammar and even drafting.
A good example of this trend are the enhancements that Thomson Reuters have recently announced to their Drafting Assistant, which adds advanced capabilities for drafting, proofing and automating legal document creation.
With these new Drafting Assistant enhancements, together with Contract Express and Westlaw Form Builder, Thomson Reuters believe that they now provide a comprehensive set of solutions for drafting, proofing and automating legal document creation, streamlining a crucial workflow for the legal profession.
Drafting Assistant for PC, Drafting Assistant on Microsoft Word 2016 for the iPad, and Drafting Assistant Essential - see USA or UK, provide a full range of solutions that improve efficiency and streamline document drafting workflows, validate citations, and perform other critical drafting tasks no matter where users are or what computing platform they are using. Some features may be specific to geographic regions.
Each fall, the Law Library offers a research training for all College of Law research assistants. This training covers the basics of accessing the Law Library's resources as a research assistant, with a focus on resources that tend to be helpful to RAs, but to which they have likely not yet been exposed.
Because this training is general in nature, it will not cover every possible resource or research technique that may be helpful to your research assistants. To arrange an individual or small group training for your research assistants that focuses on a particular topic, please contact Don Ford at donal...@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9068.
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