Contract Standards – Free Drafting Checklists and More

The Contract Standards web service takes scores of publicly available transactional documents, for example, employment agreements from SEC filings,  and uses special contract analysis software, called kiiac, to create a list of the standard clauses for that particular type of document.  The site has Document checklists and a Unified clause library. There is also a Documents library with forms created using the kiiac software’s analysis.

Contract Standards took things a step further with their NonDisclosure Agreement form.  There is a link to automatically generate your own Nondisclosure Agreement simply by typing in party names, purpose of the agreement and a few other pieces of information, similar to Hotdocs.   The automatically generated form gets sent to you via email.   All of the above can be used for free.

According to the site,

“Our mission is to openly share contract standards–transaction analysis, checklists, and clause libraries–in an effort to establish global contract norms. It is hoped readers will share their knowledge through comments, practice guidance and other contributions.”

Thanks to Three Geeks and a Law Blog