Drafting Tools

Drafting tools assist lawyers in producing higher-quality documents by catching errors and improving consistency. Functionality in this category includes identifying and resolving grammatical and substantive errors and inconsistencies, surfacing connections and important information across a document, checking citations for accuracy and correct formatting, and creating, automating, and managing formatting styles within word processing software. These tools generally work as an overlay on documents lawyers are already drafting manually, rather than generating first drafts themselves, making them a proofreading and quality-control layer rather than a document-creation layer. As with other document-focused categories, generative AI is increasingly being incorporated to catch more substantive drafting issues, suggest alternative language, and flag risk, moving some drafting tools closer to the line between traditional proofreading and AI-assisted smart drafting.