LEGAL
Thomson Reuters Drafting Assistant is legal drafting software that maximizes efficiency gains and minimizes risk.
A recent survey was conducted using a sample group of attorneys who currently use Drafting Assistant. The group included attorneys across multiple practice areas, working in Real Estate, Commercial Law and Contracts, and Business Organizations and Corporations.
The survey asked attorneys to compare time spent on typical drafting tasks before and after Drafting Assistant. It also inquired about their agreement or disagreement regarding the intended advantages of the software. The findings were substantially favorable, with attorneys calling out efficiency, integration, accuracy, and risk avoidance as the key advantages of using Drafting Assistant.
The following is an in-depth discussion of the features and benefits of Drafting Assistant that support the findings of the survey.
It's natural to start the drafting process by leveraging existing documents, instead of starting from scratch. Regardless of how you begin, accuracy is the goal. With your busy day, you don't have time to check and recheck your documents for numeration discrepancies, cross-check defined terms, and worry about missing sections. You need to be confident that your work is accurate, period.
Using Drafting Assistant's Deal Proof Analyzer helps you create accurate documents, reducing your fears and boosting your confidence.
Use Deal Proof to quickly find and address potential errors, omissions, and inconsistencies that may occur in the process of drafting, negotiating, and reviewing your agreement.
Deal Proof flags your document for potential issues and lets you step through the document to correct them. You can also generate reports for flags, references, and an outline of the findings, and then remove all markings and links in the document(s).
These items are checked when a document is analyzed:
Further, if your main document contains references to other documents, the referenced documents can also be analyzed.
Prioritizing your workload can be challenging. And when it comes to drafting documents, the process can be tedious with a disruptive workflow. You're frequently starting and stopping, moving between applications. It's easy to get sidetracked, overwhelmed, and frustrated.
Using Drafting Assistant's key features helps minimize your workflow distractions and eliminate your frustrations. Instead of starting and stopping, you're able to start and finish the entire drafting process right from your word processor.
Word Integration
Produce your best work and reduce the hours it takes to draft a document.
Practical Law
Search and access best-in-class Practical Law Standard Documents and Clauses right within your word processor.
West km
Search internal documents and Westlaw simultaneously for greater efficiency.
Benchmark Precedents
The Locate Precedent feature benchmarks language, clause by clause, against similar EDGAR-derived documents in a single search to ensure your documents consistently meet market standards.
You work hard to maintain your reputation. Don't let bad legal writing weaken your credibility. Using Drafting Assistant not only reduces the time it takes to complete document-drafting tasks, it ensures your document is accurate, ultimately leading to risk avoidance.
Active users said the following about Drafting Assistant:
"Drafting Assistant allows a level of review that I may have otherwise missed."
"I think Drafting Assistant is very useful in catching items I may have missed."
"It's made my workflow more efficient. I feel more confident using it. It frees me up to work on more valuable things."
Take a look at how Drafting Assistant helps you save time and money on the drafting process. Attorneys who adopted Drafting Assistant saw a 34% to 77% reduction in time to complete a drafting task. The efficiency gains resulted in cost savings ranging from $108 to $353 on a given drafting task. The cost-benefit analysis was calculated using the average hourly rate of the surveyed attorneys. The dollar amounts shown equal time saved multiplied by $283/hr.
Attorneys who use Drafting Assistant agree on the value it adds to their practice. They report high levels of satisfaction and loyalty to the software.
Your clients trust you with the decisions that matter most. Trust us to provide the technology you need to win for them.
Accuracy. Efficiency. Risk Avoidance. The answer is Drafting Assistant.
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