Stabilize multi-authority insertions in Word drafting
Small workflow breaks can quickly become trust breaks in legal drafting.
A visible shortcut may save time until it interrupts the evidence lawyers need to verify.
“I can’t spend a deadline day rebuilding citations by hand every time I insert research.”
Frehiwot Mulugeta · Litigation Associate
Drafts briefs in Microsoft Word and must preserve reviewable links to supporting authorities.
What pulls against what
- fast containment vs. workflow continuity
- release confidence vs. rollback caution
- visible telemetry vs. attorney disruption
What is at stake
A drafting interruption is pushing lawyers back to manual citation work. Recovery protects both speed and confidence in linked authorities
Why Harvey
At Harvey, this tends to matter where source-linked work must remain usable inside established legal tools.
Written for
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.