Move your team from DraftWise to Legora.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Legora — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in DraftWise is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both tools offer AI-assisted contract drafting inside Microsoft Word via native add-ins, making a switch primarily a matter of retraining on a different UX rather than migrating documents. Moving from DraftWise to Legora: export or retain all precedent documents in your DMS (NetDocuments, iManage, or Egnyte remain the source of truth and do not need to move); install the Legora Word Add-In and connect it to the same document repository via Legora's platform configuration; use Legora's Editor and Tabular Review within Word to draft and compare clauses. Moving from Legora to DraftWise: ensure your DMS is one of the three supported integrations (NetDocuments, iManage, Egnyte); install the DraftWise Word add-in and authorize it against the DMS — DraftWise will auto-index and surface negotiated language from your historical deals without manual tagging. In both directions, historical contracts stay in the DMS and both products read them in-place, so no document migration is needed.
- Warning: DraftWise ingests precedent automatically from the connected DMS and builds firm-specific positions without manual tagging; Legora's Editor relies on documents uploaded or opened directly in session, so teams moving to Legora may need to establish a consistent upload or connection workflow for precedent access.
- Warning: DraftWise's drafting is explicitly grounded in firm precedent and EDGAR public benchmarks; Legora's drafting is general AI-assisted and does not advertise the same automatic precedent-benchmarking capability.
- Warning: Legora supports NetSuite-adjacent use cases and serves in-house counsel broadly; DraftWise is positioned specifically for law firms and their DMS ecosystems.
DraftWise Playbook Studio auto-generates firm negotiation positions from precedent and enforces them during live deal review. Legora does not have a dedicated playbook module, but its AI Legal Assistant handles standardization of legal positions through conversational prompting and document templates shared across the team. Moving from DraftWise to Legora: export existing playbook guidance from DraftWise (preferred positions, clause-level instructions) and convert them into prompt templates or reference documents stored in Legora; train lawyers to surface these positions via the Legora Assistant during review sessions. Moving from Legora to DraftWise: upload any existing position guidance documents to DraftWise's Playbook Studio and connect the DMS — DraftWise will auto-draft playbook entries from that material, reducing manual authoring effort.
- Warning: DraftWise Playbook Studio is a dedicated admin-configured module that auto-enforces positions clause-by-clause during review; Legora has no equivalent automated enforcement layer, so teams relying on DraftWise playbooks for compliance or risk management will need a procedural substitute.
- Warning: DraftWise playbooks can be scoped per client, matter type, or counterparty category — this level of configuration granularity is not described for Legora's assistant.
- Warning: Teams moving to DraftWise must have a supported DMS (NetDocuments, iManage, or Egnyte) for the auto-generation feature to work; without one, playbooks must be manually authored.
DraftWise Deal Table provides searchable access to the firm's historical contract terms, benchmarked against public EDGAR filings. Legora's Legal Research module and Agent handle broader legal research including jurisdiction-specific analysis with cited sourcing. These overlap in the research phase of a deal: both give lawyers a way to surface relevant precedent or market data before or during negotiation. Moving from DraftWise to Legora for research: transition deal-term lookups to Legora's Legal Research module — upload or connect relevant contract libraries as reference documents, and use the Agent for multi-jurisdiction issue spotting. Moving from Legora to DraftWise for contract intelligence: connect DraftWise to the firm's DMS so Deal Table can auto-index the full contract history; use the EDGAR benchmarking feature to validate market-standard positions that Legora's general research might have surfaced.
- Warning: DraftWise Deal Table is specifically a contract-intelligence tool — it searches internal deal history and EDGAR filings, not case law, statutes, or regulatory materials; Legora's Legal Research covers statutory and regulatory research across jurisdictions, which DraftWise does not.
- Warning: Legora's research outputs include citations with source traceability; DraftWise Deal Table surfaces internal firm precedent without publishing third-party citation trails.
- Warning: DraftWise requires a supported DMS connection for Deal Table to function; teams without NetDocuments, iManage, or Egnyte will not get the auto-indexed internal precedent view.
Both products support reviewing redlined or counterparty-edited documents inside Microsoft Word. Moving from DraftWise to Legora: open the redlined document in Word and activate the Legora Word Add-In; use Legora's Tabular Review to compare clause-by-clause changes and the Editor to draft counter-positions inline. Moving from Legora to DraftWise: open the redlined contract in Word with the DraftWise add-in active; DraftWise reads tracked changes and comments, cross-references the firm's DMS history, and proposes accept/reject/counter language as redlines. The key transition task in either direction is ensuring the Word add-in for the destination product is installed and authorized before the first deal review session — the documents themselves stay in their existing locations.
- Warning: DraftWise proposes counter-language grounded specifically in the firm's historical deal positions from its DMS; Legora's counter-drafting draws on its general AI model rather than firm-specific precedent, so the quality of firm-aligned suggestions may differ.
- Warning: DraftWise emphasizes speed across entire documents within minutes; Legora's tabular review is clause-level structured comparison, which may require more manual navigation for long agreements.
- Warning: Teams switching from DraftWise to Legora lose automatic version-history interpretation that DraftWise uses to understand negotiation context across multiple redline rounds.
Both products meet enterprise-grade security baselines (SOC 2, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, no AI training on customer data), so a security review when switching is a documentation exercise rather than a remediation effort. Moving from DraftWise to Legora: request Legora's ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 Type II attestation reports from your Legora account team; verify BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) is enabled if your policy requires customer-managed encryption; confirm the data retention and deletion policy matches your obligations — Legora permanently deletes customer data at contract end with an export option. Moving from Legora to DraftWise: request DraftWise's SOC 2 report and Cyber Essentials Plus certificate (UK); agree on the deployment model (private cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP, containerized in the firm's own cloud, or on-premise) and confirm audit log retention settings (up to two years via CloudWatch).
- Warning: Legora holds ISO 42001 (AI governance) and ISO 27001 in addition to SOC 2 Type II; DraftWise lists SOC 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus but does not advertise ISO 27001 or ISO 42001 — relevant for firms requiring those specific certifications.
- Warning: Legora supports BYOK (customer-managed encryption keys); DraftWise offers firm-controlled encryption keys via private cloud deployment but the mechanism differs — confirm key management requirements with each vendor.
- Warning: DraftWise supports true on-premise deployment (containerized, VM, or Linux); Legora's deployment model is SaaS-based — firms with hard data-residency or air-gap requirements may find DraftWise more flexible.
- Warning: Neither product lists HIPAA compliance on their security pages — relevant if the legal team handles health-sector matters.
Both products deliver their core capabilities through Microsoft Word add-ins, so switching between them is primarily an add-in swap rather than a workflow re-architecture. Moving from DraftWise to Legora: uninstall or disable the DraftWise Word add-in; install the Legora Word Add-In from the Microsoft AppSource or via IT deployment; sign in with SSO credentials (Legora supports SSO); the Legora Outlook Add-In can also be deployed for email-based legal tasks, which DraftWise does not offer. Moving from Legora to DraftWise: uninstall the Legora Word and Outlook add-ins; install the DraftWise Word add-in and connect it to the firm's DMS (NetDocuments, iManage, or Egnyte) — the DMS connection is required for DraftWise to function, unlike Legora which can operate without a connected DMS.
- Warning: DraftWise's Word add-in is gated on a supported DMS connection (NetDocuments, iManage, Egnyte); teams without one of these three DMS platforms cannot use DraftWise's core features, whereas Legora's Word Add-In works independently of a specific DMS.
- Warning: Legora additionally offers an Outlook Add-In for email-based legal tasks; DraftWise does not have an Outlook integration, so teams relying on the Legora Outlook Add-In will lose that surface when switching to DraftWise.
- Warning: Legora supports SSO explicitly; DraftWise's authentication model is not described in the same detail on the product page.