Drafting

About Fast Draft

Discover how Fast Draft's automated templates can reduce the time needed to draft documents from Practical Law.

Practical Law includes Fast Draft

As a subscriber to Practical Law, you have free access to Fast Draft. Fast Draft is a web application that automates drafting.
Fast Draft gives you access to almost 300 automated document templates. These are based on maintained standard documents and clauses from Practical Law.

How does automation help?

  • Fast Draft uses questionnaires help you enter the information needed to create an initial draft.
  • Questionnaires are divided into sections to help you move quickly to the part you want.
  • You can view a live
    Preview
     of how your answers change your draft.
  • In
    Preview
     mode, you can show or hide drafting notes from Practical Law.
  • Date pickers help you to enter dates.
  • Calculators help you to enter numerical data.
  • You can use the
    Address book
     to enter, edit, and reuse an entity's details.
  • Get notified of a change to an entity's details in the Address book since you last opened a document.

Use version control, projects, and folders to organise your work

  • Save your draft and re-open to pick up where you left off.
  • View previous versions of a document and continue editing any of them.
  • Download your initial draft in MS Word format.
  • Add documents to projects, view the history of activity, add documents, suspend, or continue it.
  • Organise projects by moving them into folders.
  • Move older completed projects to an archive folder.

Collaborate to draft Family Court Form E

Use Fast Draft to manage your workflow to draft Form E: Financial statement for a financial order or financial relief after an overseas divorce or dissolution of civil partnership.
You can use this project to invite your client to a secure website to help you complete Form E. This website has calculators to work out property values and bank balances.
You can also download the completed form as a court-ready PDF.

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