Documents

Documents are central to a lawyer's work, and this category covers the tools that support drafting, reviewing, comparing, and managing them. Drafting tools and document automation help ensure consistency of citation, defined terms, and formatting, while co-authoring solutions let multiple reviewers work on a document simultaneously. Compare tools identify differences between document versions, document analysis tools extract and review content within documents, and PDF editors handle documents outside native word-processing formats. Document management systems, along with add-ons that extend their functionality, organize and store documents at the repository level. Generative AI has introduced smart drafting, which uses natural-language prompts to generate first drafts and suggest revisions, layered on top of, rather than replacing, traditional rules-based automation. eSignature and notarization tools, which sit at the end of the document lifecycle, are tracked jointly with Contracts given their role in finalizing agreements.