New in LawY: Document Options in Word

Every legal document is a stack of assertions. This happened on this date. The other party did this. The evidence shows that. Each one is meant to hold up against what's actually in the matter file and most of them do, because someone took the time to check.

The problem is the ones nobody had time to check.

Verifying a claim usually means stopping mid-draft, leaving your document, and going to find the evidence: the file note, the correspondence, the affidavit that either backs the point or doesn't. Do that for every assertion in a position paper and you'd never finish. So in practice, some claims go out on memory and good faith and those are exactly the ones that come back to bite.

Bringing the check to the draft

Document Options, now in the LawY Word add-in, closes that gap from inside your document.

Open the tab while you're drafting and LawY reads what you've written, connects it to the matter, and hands you a tailored list of next actions drawn straight from the document's own content what to check, and what to research. Not generic prompts; the actual issues your draft raises. "Check matter for history of controlling behaviour." "Research the supervised contact threshold." Click one and LawY runs it against the matter's own documents, then comes back with an answer that cites the source: the document, the date, the author, the specific detail behind the finding.

That citation is the point. Plenty of tools will answer a legal question in the abstract. Far fewer will answer it from your evidence and show their working. It's the difference between "here's some general law" and "here's what your file actually says" and only the second one is defensible.

A checklist, not a rewrite

It's worth being clear about what Document Options doesn't do: it doesn't touch your draft. It reads the document to work out what needs checking; it never edits or rewrites a word. Think of it as the checklist a good senior would hand you "back this claim, research that point" except it's there for everyone, on every matter, so juniors catch what a senior would and seniors get there faster.

And when the suggestions don't cover what you need, you're not boxed in: write your own check or research query, and LawY runs that instead. When a finding needs to be watertight, it's one click from Deep Research and Human Verification checked by an expert lawyer in your field of law.

The result is simple. The claims in your draft go out backed by the evidence, checked against the file, and grounded in your matter without you ever leaving Word to do it.

Not yet using the LawY Microsoft Word add-in? You can download it here.