About Drafting Assistant Essential (Web Platform)
Drafting Assistant Essential streamlines legal drafting by providing citation checking, formatting, authority tools, and document review features directly within your word processor.
The Thomson Reuters Drafting Assistant Essential suite of productivity tools provide easy access to information, research, authority, and tools to help you draft legal documents. With Drafting Assistant Essential (Web Platform), you can produce your best work and shave hours off the drafting process – right from your word processor. With Drafting Assistant, you can:
- InsertKeyCiteflags for easy review and citation verification using theFlags & LinksandWestChecktools.
- Ensure correct citation formatting usingThe Bluebook,ALWD, or other jurisdiction-specific rules, with theCite Formattingtool.
- Insert a table of authorities into your documents with theTOA Buildertool.
- Check the status of your citations in KeyCite usingWestCheck.
- Create a Cited Decisions list of cases cited by your case inWestCheck.
- Use WestCheck to accessQuoteRightto verify the accuracy of quotations in your documents.
Save hours of drafting time and speed up the review process with every brief, memorandum, or other legal document you draft.
Once you open Drafting Assistant, you can upload a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or PDF document. The tools available to you under your subscription will display in the left pane alongside your document. When uploading a PDF, Drafting Assistant will convert the document into a searchable text file for use with the Drafting Assistant Essential website. Once processing is complete, the downloaded document will be in Word format. You won’t be able to convert the document back to PDF format after you have converted it to a Word document.
