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:
  • Insert
    KeyCite
    flags for easy review and citation verification using the
    Flags & Links
    and
    WestCheck
    tools.
  • Ensure correct citation formatting using
    The Bluebook
    ,
    ALWD
    , or other jurisdiction-specific rules, with the
    Cite Formatting
    tool.
  • Insert a table of authorities into your documents with the
    TOA Builder
    tool.
  • Check the status of your citations in KeyCite using
    WestCheck
    .
  • Create a Cited Decisions list of cases cited by your case in
    WestCheck
    .
  • Use WestCheck to access
    QuoteRight
    to 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.

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