Contract drafting is the process of creating clear, legally enforceable agreements that protect the company and allow the business to execute effectively. In-house legal teams draft and review a wide range of contracts, typically spending the most time on common agreements such as NDAs, MSAs, SaaS, supplier, and sales agreements to manage risk (e.g. liability, compliance, disputes, and revenue leakage), ensure they reflect the organization’s preferred positions, and to maintain consistency across deals and terms.

Contract review is the process of checking a counterparty’s proposed agreement to ensure it aligns with the organization’s legal policies to manage risk, ensure compliance, and protect the organization’s interests. It is a critical step before a contract is signed and becomes legally binding.

Redlining is where in-house lawyers mark up the document with edits, additions, things that need to be removed, and comments during negotiation so changes are clear and can be agreed by everyone.

LawVu Draft is an add-in that sits directly in Microsoft Word. It is deeply integrated into the LawVu legal workspace so an organization’s contract history and preferred positions become drafting knowledge that is automatically updated and can be reused to speed up every negotiation.

In-house legal teams can use AI to import their own playbooks, or start with LawVu’s standard templates, then review third-party contracts against those playbooks. LawVu Draft adds comments, inserts compliant clauses, and rewrites non-compliant language, all while preserving the formatting of the original document.

Once your preferred clauses and playbooks are set, legal teams can redline third-party agreements without leaving Microsoft Word:

• Instantly redline with one-click insertion of preferred clauses
• Apply custom playbooks to enforce standards and reduce manual checks
• Automatically surface risks, inconsistencies, and missing terms
• Maintain quality with AI-powered proofreading and consistency checks

Yes. LawVu Draft lets legal teams compare two documents (Word or PDF) side by side, see every change clearly, and export or insert updates directly in Word. You can also run bulk comparisons across multiple documents to review variations in a single integrated view.

LawVu Draft is not a separate solution. It’s part of the LawVu legal workspace, which means drafts and reviews are powered by an organization’s real contract history, playbooks, matters, documents, and preferred clauses in one secure place. This drives higher adoption, faster time to value, and stronger ROI than point solutions that sit outside your legal workflows.

Inside Microsoft Word, LawVu Draft helps teams work faster and with more confidence by surfacing relevant clauses instantly, answering questions from your LawVu repository as you draft, and automatically checking for technical issues like missing definitions, unresolved placeholders, invalid cross-references, or inconsistent terms.