Reviewed, Flag and Report

We strongly encourage use of the Reviewed, Flag and Report features of Contract Companion, as explained on pages 45 to 53 of the instructions. Several students did not use any of these features, and very few were recorded as having generated a report.

We recommend the following approach to using these features:

• Use Reviewed to mark each result shown by Contract Companion that does not require an edit to the contract draft in Microsoft Word. Reviewed items change to grey and move to the bottom of the results list. That emphasizes the items that remain to be checked.
• Use Flag to mark each result shown by Contract Companion that does require an edit to the contract draft in Microsoft Word.
• At the conclusion of checking results in Contract Companion, generate and save a Report from a filtered list of all of the Flag items. This will serve as a checklist to help confirm that all of the required edits in Microsoft Word get completed.

These may seem like extra steps – that one could just correct the items shown in the results list in Microsoft Word while checking through the list. Proofreading contracts is meticulous work. “Extra” work that avoids errors is part of what it takes to be a good lawyer.