Legal Document Automation That Uses Your Existing Word Templates

Stop rebuilding your firm's templates. DraftCounsel reads your existing .docx files, extracts facts from matter documents, and generates formatting-preserved Word drafts — without changing a single style.

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1–3 hours → under 10 minutes

Zero template rebuilding

Formatting preserved exactly

The Problem

Why Word template automation breaks in real legal drafting

Most document automation tools promise Word integration. What they deliver is a conversion process: upload your .docx, watch it get stripped into a web form, and spend weeks re-tagging every field. Complex formatting — pleading margins, numbered lists, tables, headers — rarely survives the conversion intact.

Templates get rebuilt from scratch

Firms spend weeks migrating their existing Word files into proprietary editors or learning Markdown syntax. Your IP gets locked into someone else's system.

Formatting breaks on output

Web-based editors frequently destroy the complex formatting legal documents require: specific margins, automated numbering, and nested paragraph styles.

Data still gets typed manually

Even automated systems often require filling out an intake form. Nobody reads your matter documents and extracts the facts for you.

How It Works

Automate existing .docx templates — no rebuild, no re-tagging

01

Upload your template

Drop in your firm's .docx template exactly as it is. No conversion, no tagging, no syntax to learn.

02

Upload matter documents

Add the source documents: intake forms, prior filings, pleadings, reports. DraftCounsel reads them.

03

Review extracted facts

See every placeholder value DraftCounsel found, with a confidence rating. Edit anything before generating.

04

Download your Word file

Get back a .docx with your exact formatting intact — fonts, headers, footers, numbering, tables, all of it.

Notice of Appearance.docxFormatting preserved

IN THE POLLUTION CONTROL HEARINGS BOARD

v.
PartyAddressService
Plaintiff412 NE Pacific…Email

Formatting Preservation

Preserve exact Word formatting, styles, and layout

DraftCounsel outputs a native .docx file — the same format your attorneys have used for years. Fonts, margins, header/footer content, automated numbering, and table structures all come through exactly as your template defined them. Nothing gets converted. Nothing gets flattened.

  • Pleading paper margins and line numbering
  • Custom fonts and paragraph styles
  • Headers, footers, and page numbering
  • Tables and nested lists
  • Automated fields and document properties

Review Before You Generate

A verification step built into every draft

Before DraftCounsel generates your document, it shows you every value it plans to insert — party names, case numbers, dates, addresses — with a confidence rating for each. Review it, correct it, then generate. No black box. No surprises.

Placeholder Review23 fields found
FieldValueConfidenceSource
[CASE NAME]Smith v. Dep't of Ecology
High
Filing
[CASE NUMBER]PCHB No. 26-017
High
Filing
[DATE]March 8, 2026
High
Today
[ATTORNEY]Emily Johnson
Medium
Team
[CLIENT ADDR]412 NE Pacific St, Seattle WA
Review
Intake

How DraftCounsel compares

FeatureOther toolsDraftCounsel
Template setupRebuild requiredUse as-is
Formatting outputOften brokenPreserved exactly
Data sourceIntake formsMatter documents
Review stepNoneBefore every draft
Word outputSometimesAlways native .docx

Security and confidentiality for client data

Your templates stay yours

Templates are never shared, modified, or used to train AI models.

Matter documents stay private

Source documents are processed to extract facts and never accessed by DraftCounsel staff in the ordinary course of operations.

No AI training on your files

Your documents are never used to train or improve any AI model. Anthropic's API policy prohibits it.

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“Very user friendly and innovative technology that simplifies and streamlines routine tasks — potentially saving countless administrative hours, precious time we can all use on other important tasks. I love it.”

Attorney — Early Access User

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