Creates a lasting URL so links to your cited materials in briefs and articles will always work. Perma.cc was developed by the Harvard Law School Library to combat link rot, a pervasive issue where links to online sources become inaccessible as the internet changes. All clinical faculty already have accounts and can add students or fellows who could also use Perma.cc in their projects. Each clinic already has a folder, and each professor already has a sub folder, to organize your work.

Steps and screenshots of how to create Perma.cc urls, add users (like students and fellows), and organizing your links.

Software program that creates a table of authorities (TOA) for your brief and reviews document citations.

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share references for your research. It also creates bibliographies and in-line citations in Bluebook style.

With PowerNotes, you can gather information from any online resource. You highlight the relevant text, add any wanted annotations and PowerNotes will save the content to an online research project, similar to a folder on Westlaw or Lexis. But with PowerNotes, you can save content from any website or subscription databases such as Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, HeinOnline, etc. in one place. Create and export annotated outlines. Register with your Northwestern email.

Sign up for your free Casetext account to access CARA, a program that will analyze your legal writing such as briefs for suggested case law. You could also upload opposing counsel's brief and have CARA analyze it for missing authorities.

Short videos on how to use Casetext and CARA

"With this new feature, which Casetext is calling CARA Notifications, Casetext monitors all the PACER dockets in which an attorney has active matters. Whenever opposing counsel files a substantive document such as a brief or memorandum, Casetext retrieves the document, runs it through CARA, and delivers the report to the attorney."

Clio's 'Document Automation' function will create a document template using 'Merge Fields' from your Contacts and Matters. These Merge Fields automatically pull information from a Matter in Clio and put them into your documents.

5 min how to video on document automation and template creation in Clio

Lexis Practice Advisor has standard document templates, alternate clauses, and drafting tips for quick document assembly.

Practical Law has standard documents, standard and alternate clauses, and drafting notes to help pull together your writing quickly.

"Draft Analyzer is powered by Exemplify™ – our patented software application that uses an algorithm to show you the developing consensus among drafters based on its analysis of each paragraph from virtually every agreement and organizational document filed as an EDGAR exhibit."

Add on for Microsoft Word and Outlook that reviews documents and suggests edits to make writing more concise