Claude drafts.
DocketDrafter makes it court-ready.
DocketDrafter connects Claude to your firm-owned playbook: approved templates, prior work, drafting rules, citation review, version history, and court-ready Word output. Every completed draft strengthens your private firm library.
How DocketDrafter works
Your lawyers keep working in Claude. DocketDrafter adds your firm's prior work and formatting, so drafts come out the way your firm files them.
Keep using Claude
Your team keeps working in Claude. DocketDrafter runs behind it, no new tool to adopt.
Start from firm memory
Your AI finds the closest prior draft and adapts the facts, instead of starting from a blank page.
Get a court-ready draft
You get a finished Word document, ready to review and file.
Onboarding is done for you. Send us what your team already drafts, and we build your firm playbook before you log in.
Built-in controls, powered by your playbook.
Court-ready formatting
Captions, numbered paragraphs, signature blocks, verifications, and court-specific rules follow your firm's conventions in the finished Word file, so no one is reformatting by hand.
Full version history
Every draft is saved automatically, so you get the complete history of a document and can restore an earlier version at any time. Nothing is overwritten or lost.
Citation review workflow
Attorneys can review and approve citations used in drafts. Over time, the firm builds a citation library that future drafts can be checked against.
Your work product, made reusable
Every draft is captured in a format Claude can quickly read and reuse, so your firm's prior work compounds into a library the AI draws from.
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Learn when lawyers should use Claude on the web, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code for legal drafting, matter files, PDFs, Word documents, and citation review.
You control the legal substance.
DocketDrafter never replaces legal judgment. Your lawyers decide what the document says.
- Your lawyers decide the arguments, facts, and filing strategy.
- Your playbook supplies the approved templates, rules, and prior work the AI can reuse.
- DocketDrafter renders the result into a Word file ready for lawyer review.
Your playbook is your firm's IP.
Your playbook is built from your templates, prior work, and review history. DocketDrafter organizes and versions it so your team can reuse work it has already paid to create, and it is firm-owned, never model training data.
Frequently asked questions
Claude can draft, but it does not automatically have your firm templates, prior matter history, formatting rules, reusable examples, citation review, version control, or Word rendering. DocketDrafter gives Claude the controlled firm workspace around the model.
Claude output is loose text. DocketDrafter drafts live in a matter workspace with approved templates, reusable snippets, version history, document checks, citation review, and Word rendering.
Your firm does. The playbook is built from your templates, prior work, snippets, drafting rules, approved citations, and review history. DocketDrafter hosts and operationalizes it, but the work product and drafting knowledge remain your firm's asset.
DocketDrafter is designed for attorney-controlled citation review. Citations can be marked, approved, and saved to the firm playbook so future drafts can be checked against authorities the firm has already reviewed. Attorneys remain responsible for legal research, currentness, and final approval.
Yes. Each document drafted through DocketDrafter can become part of the firm library, so future matters can start from the closest approved answer, motion, affirmation, discovery demand, stipulation, or letter.
No. We support Claude and OpenAI Codex, but not ChatGPT in the web app. Most AI-forward attorneys are doing serious drafting work in Claude Cowork today, so that is where DocketDrafter starts.
No. DocketDrafter is not where you chat with AI. It is the controlled matter workspace, playbook, version history, citation review, firm library, and Word output layer that Claude can use while you keep working in the AI environment you already like.
Prior matters, Word templates, approved drafting rules, formatting checks, caption conventions, signature blocks, verification language, citation preferences, reusable examples, and review notes.
Yes. One of the main benefits is turning one attorney's AI workflow into a shared firm system. Other attorneys and staff can work from the same examples, rules, and review history without becoming prompt engineers.
No. Word remains the review and filing artifact. DocketDrafter helps produce clean Word output from the playbook so the draft follows your firm's formatting and court conventions.
The attorney. DocketDrafter supplies structure, memory, formatting, versioning, citation review, and rendering. Your lawyers decide the facts, arguments, strategy, and final filing content.
Your playbook is private to your firm. Storage, retention, and deletion preferences can be discussed during onboarding so the workspace matches how your firm wants to handle sensitive work product.
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