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What is the Quality Library?
The Quality Library is a central place to store and reuse trusted legal content.
It contains clauses, contract fragments, notes, and other drafting elements that have been reviewed, organised, and made reusable across your team.
Instead of searching through past documents or rewriting standard provisions, you can use the Quality Library to quickly find and insert the right building blocks into your contracts.
LawVu Draft supports more than one Quality Library:
A main library shared across the organization
Team or department libraries for specialised content
A personal library for your own clauses and notes
This setup allows teams to share best practices while still keeping flexibility.
✅ When to use it
Reuse approved clauses in drafting - Quickly insert pre-approved language into your contracts instead of rewriting or copying from past documents.
Standardize legal wording across the team - Ensure consistent, reviewed language is used across the team, reducing risk and inconsistencies.
Preserve and share legal know-how - Store high-quality drafting so others can easily reuse it.
Keep content organised and searchable - use folders, tags, and metadata to make clauses easy to find and maintain.
⚠️ When not to use it
For storing full contracts or documents - The Quality Library is built for reusable content, not document storage or contract management.
If content won’t be maintained - Its value depends on having accurate, up-to-date clauses with clear ownership.
Add clauses to the Library
The easiest way to add content is directly from Microsoft Word.
Select one or more paragraphs
Go to Clauses > Add Clause to Library
LawVu Draft will automatically analyse the selected text and pre-fill the clause entry form:
You can review and adjust each field before saving the clause:
Name - This is the internal filename of the clause. Keep it short and descriptive so users understand what the clause is about without reading the full text.
Avoid encoding every legal nuance in the name - attributes and descriptions are better suited for that.Location - Choose the folder (and subfolder) where the clause should be stored. The folder structure provides important legal context, so take care to place clauses thoughtfully. Folder management is described in more detail on the Managing Folders page.
Body - The legal content itself, structured into paragraphs.
Enriching your clause
Click + Augment clause to add additional fields:
Title - An optional clause title that can be inserted into Word as a (sub)heading.
Extra keywords - Helps users find the clause using alternative search terms.
Description - Internal guidance explaining the context, origin, or intended use of the clause. This text is never inserted into Word.
Attributes -Metadata such as clause type, perspective, or complexity—useful for filtering and consistency.
Comments - Legal notes, references, or background context.
💡Tip: Users often search by keywords that don’t appear in the clause text itself. Adding these terms to the name, description, or comments (for example, “buy-sell mechanism”) makes clauses much easier to find.
Browse through clauses
You can browse or search the clause library to find the content you need.
Use the folder structure to navigate through categories, or enter a keyword in the search bar to quickly locate specific clauses. You can also apply filters to refine your results.
Insert a clause into your document
Once you’ve found a clause, click + to insert it into your Word document.
After insertion, you can adjust formatting options such as clause levels.
Edit before inserting
Select Insert with changes
Or click the ✏️ icon to modify the clause before inserting it
After inserting, a new menu will appear, giving you the option to change the levels of the clause.
Filling placeholders
Placeholders (highlighted in yellow) can be completed before insertion.
Simply click a placeholder and enter the appropriate value.
Formatting
The Quality Library preserves clause structure, including:
Titles
Headings and subheadings
Bullet points
It also adapts to your document formatting automatically, so inserted clauses match your current layout.