THOMSON REUTERS WESTLAW™
DEAL PROOF
BUSINESS LAW RESEARCH
AUTOMATICALLY HIGHLIGHT
POTENTIAL RISKS AND ERRORS
IN LEGAL AGREEMENTS.
Deal Proof increases your productivity, minimizes your risk and maximizes your opportunities during
agreement negotiation, review and drafting, helping you more effectively respond to your clients’
demands for timeliness, advantage and quality. Embedded in your word processor, Deal Proof analysis
is a click away and provides you with instant insight into common errors in drafting complex agreement
sets including:
• Defined Term Discrepancies
- Defined but not capitalized
- Defined but not used
- Defined more than once
- Defined term location misstated
- Out of alphabetical order
- Undefined terms
- Undefined in referenced document
•Open Issues
•Numeration Discrepancies
•A navigable document outline
•Lists of key references in the agreement, such as all
DEAL PROOF ADVANTAGES
•Provides greater insight into advantages and potential
risks in an agreement.
•Reduces risk of technical oversights and omissions.
•Ensures that key elements in an agreement, such as
defined terms and section references, are accurately
and consistently documented.
•Deal Proof’s rapid analysis can be used throughout
the drafting and analysis stages to ensure the most
favourable outcomes and the least exposure to risk in
the future.
FEATURES TO HELP YOU CRAFT THE MOST
ADVANTAGEOUS AGREEMENTS
•Discover risks in defined a term use, such as undefined
terms or terms with multiple definitions, with the
Defined Term Discrepancies feature.
•Mitigate mechanical errors in numeration or orphaned
brackets, parenthesis and quotation marks with
Numeration Discrepancies and Unpaired Punctuation.
•Using the Open Issues feature, quickly find all deal
terms that remain to be negotiated or finalized with
the client.
•Using the Reports and Insert Word Comments
features, quickly share Deal Proof findings with a
colleague or client.
HOW DOCUMENT PROOFING WORKS
•Summaries organize information contained within
your agreements into easy-to-use indexes, providing
you with a top-down view of the agreement or suite of
documents.
•Proofreading function delivers a substantive review of
information and highlights potential problem areas
within documents, categorizing areas of concern.
•Time-saving features include hyperlinks between core
concepts, for intuitive point-and-click navigation.
•Deal Proof findings can be summarized, delivered and
reviewed in a number of formats.
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DEAL PROOF
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BUSINESS LAW SOLUTIONS – A SYSTEM THAT
WORKS TO MANAGE RISK
Add the power of Deal Proof’s document proofing
and analysis to ensure your agreements are properly
reviewed, and risk mitigation becomes easier- even
in the face of heightened scrutiny and increased
compliance requirements. Deal Proof integrates Business Law Solutions Advisor and In-Market
Agreements at the desktop, enabling you to have
industry-leading analysis, timely and precise market
standard language and instant insight into your
agreement, right at your fingertips.
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