Contract Companion - Legal Proofreading

Whether you start from a template, reuse prior agreements, or edit an opposing draft, Contract Companion ensures all your agreements meet your firm’s strict quality standards and your clients’ expectations of spotless work. A subscription to Litera Microsystems Contract Companion is required.

• Increase profitability, ensure quality, and protect your reputation with automated proofreading that takes minutes, ensures consistency, and is the only comprehensive proofreading solution

• Developed for the legal industry, it is ideal for lawyers, legal assistants, administrative assistants, and anyone who needs to author, collaborate, review, edit, or finalize a legal document

• Contract Companion is intuitive, easy to use with little or no training, and increases productivity by automating many tedious legal proofreading tasks

• Provides a way to review and navigate to the items found in the following areas through a task pane in Word

Add-in Features:

• Risk Assessment shows the legal health of your document in seconds

• Defined Term Issues ensures your specific language is defined and used properly throughout the document

• References confirms and identifies every manual or automated cross reference to a previous section or definition, legislation section, as well as external documents, guaranteeing document consistency

• Common Terms identifies well-known terms in your document that don’t need a definition, so you can review and eliminate ambiguity

• Names, Dates, Etc. catches all the important items needed to be changed when you reuse a document for a new purpose

• Editing Mistakes eliminates embarrassing editing mistakes, by identifying them, and enabling you to boost your document’s quality

• Definitions lists all defined terms, so you can ensure defined terms are consistent

• Inconsistent Phrases ensures consistent language throughout even the most lengthy agreements by identifying potentially harmful inconsistencies using our patented technology

• Incomplete Items finds placeholders in the document where information must be added to complete the agreement

• Numbering Issues displays errors in both manual and automated numbering

• All Results lists all items found throughout all the categories for a comprehensive list of everything needing review and potentially change

• Reports creates a report of all items checked in the task pane and attaches it to an email for you to send for a record of those things found that you or someone else can fix