LibGuides: Forms and Transactional Drafting Resources: Document Automation

Document Assembly

Document Automation, also called Document Assembly, allows users to input information and then the system inserts the appropriate data and elements into the template. Law Technology Today. For more information on Document Automation you can go to Law Technology Today. Below are some document automations for legal writing.

HotDocs
HotDocs allows authors to control the data used to populate and generate a customized document.
A2J Author
Create guided interviews to help clients fill out a legal form or help them through a process. This software is available for free to law schools, courts and legal aid societies.
For EXAMPLES of guided interviews created with A2J Author: https://lawhelpinteractive.org/FindForms
The Form Tool
Basic Version is FREE! A Microsoft Word Add-in that creates fillable forms out of contracts and documents you have drafted. Take a form you drafted, make a table of information to be filled in and link those to points in the document.
FillanyPdf
No longer free, but as low as $3.99/month. Make any pdf a fillable form. Sign with an electronic signature on the web.
Docubot
A chatbot on the law firm website that asks questions and fills out legal documents.
Lexis Automated Templates on Practical Guidance
Build "your document with the relevant content and clauses based on answers you provide in an automated questionnaire." More information on Lexis Automated Templates
Westlaw Form Builder
Product Description & Video• Asks you questions and then uses that information to fill out the form.
Practical Law Automated Documents
(Westlaw) Complete guided questionaire, which fills information into the document. More information and a video.

AI Suggesting Improvements to Legal Writing

Bloomberg Draft Analyzer
Upload your transactional document, and you will be shown how the language you used differs from the "consensus" of every agreement and organizational document filed as an EDGAR exhibit.
Westlaw Drafting Assistant
Westlaw helps you find errors, missing information or see the flaws in the opponent's documents with Drafting Assistant. Deal Proof checks transactional documents.
Kira
Subscription based service that conducts contract analysis, lease abstraction and due diligence.
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WordRake
WordRake helps you save hours of editing and round of revision. It is available for Word and for Outlook. WordRake can edit 25 pages and suggest 250+ improvements in under a minute. It operates right within Word or Outlook.