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Drafting and reviewing forms and contracts is an essential function of your role, whether you're involved in transactional work or litigation. Now you can find your single, specific form faster with FormFinder (database name: FORMFINDER). FormFinder includes text forms, fillable PDF forms (eforms), checklists, and clauses - and it allows you to search by those document types.
With thousands of ready-to-use legal forms, Westlaw has the form you need.
FormFinder searches hundreds of thousands of forms on Westlaw to help you find the federal, state-specific, or general (nonjurisdictional) content you need. FormFinder sources include major national treatises and form sets, as well as state-specific and practice-area analytical titles, regulations, and codes/statutes.
Use FormFinder to quickly find:
- Text forms - Sample contracts or other agreements that you can download or copy and paste into Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect documents, and then edit to fit your situation.
- Fillable PDF forms (eforms) - Documents that you can fill out electronically. This is the most convenient format for official government forms that need to be completed, but not otherwise modified.
- Checklists - Listings of the key components for any given legal document or matter.
- Clauses - Sample language from contracts and other legal documents that you can copy and paste into your drafting application then edit to fit your needs. Perfect for modifying an existing document to account for an uncommon circumstance or application.
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Use FormFinder to quickly find:
- An easy-to-use search template. FormFinder's search interface makes finding the form you need quick and easy. Simply select from a list of topics, subtopics, document types, and jurisdictions to find your form. You can also add search terms to narrow it down even more. (Terms and Connectors and Natural Language searching are also available.)
- Indexed searching for pinpoint results. We've indexed the hundreds of thousands of forms on Westlaw into 45 distinct categories (each with several of their own subcategories) to help narrow your search results and zero in on the form you need - even before you add search terms.
- Fast and simple access. No need to remember a database name or navigate through a directory tree; FormFinder is accessible directly from Westlaw's top navigation bar, giving you a single access point for searching hundreds of form-related sources.
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