Legal Writing

Bloomberg Law Transactional Intelligence Center (Bloomberg Law password required)
Bloomberg Law’s Transactional Law Resources include documents and clauses used in real legal transactions, document descriptions, and drafting guides. Resources can be both searched and browsed.

Lexis Practical Guidance (Lexis password required)
Lexis Practical Guidance contains resources focused on transaction law including annotated forms, practitioner insights, and drafting guidance.  Resources are organized by practice areas.

Westlaw Practical Law (Westlaw password required)
The Practical Law Center focuses on transactional law resources.  Content includes how-to guides and explanations of current law and practice, example/”standard” documents and clauses with drafting notes, practitioner-written articles, and legal updates. Ask Practical Law AI is also available on academic Westlaw accounts - it is a generative AI-based, question-and-answer tool that summarizes and synthesizes answers grounded in the closed universe of Practical Law content.

Bloomberg Law (Bloomberg Law password required)

• Transactional Precedent Search (formerly DealMaker Documents and Clauses)
  Over 800,000 agreements that were used by practitioners in real transactions; documents are sourced from the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) EDGAR database.
• Sample Agreements
  Bloomberg Law offers nearly 200 sample (model) agreements, many with explanatory annotations. 

Westlaw (Westlaw password required)

• Standard Documents and Standard Clauses
  Standard documents and clauses within Practical Law are sample contracts and contractual clauses that provide practical drafting and negotiating guidance; the forms and clauses can be downloaded and saved in Word for easy editing.
• Sample Agreements
  This Westlaw database provides access to over a million executed business agreements with clauses and provisions drafted by attorneys; documents are sourced from the SEC’s EDGAR database.
• Form Finder
  A searchable database of forms; forms can also be browsed by state, topic, or publication.

Lexis (Lexis password required)

• Sample Forms
  A collection of standard forms that can be searched as well as browsed by state and practice area.

AmJur2d Legal Forms
A multi-volume set that contains a broad range of common legal forms, organized alphabetically by subject. The volumes of this title are also available online via Westlaw (Westlaw password required).