Nothing leaves your firm until it is correct.
Dara sits inside Microsoft Word and reviews legal documents against your sources before anything leaves the firm. It identifies conflicts and unsupported claims, recommends fixes and assigns a Consistency Grade.
8. Confidentiality
9. Warranties
KReview sources
Project Atlas · SPA
3 matter sources will be used in this review
Client Brief – Atlas.pdf
Client brief
Term Sheet v4.docx
Reference
Companies Act 2006
Statute
Ready to review
3 references will be checked.
Drafting tools make lawyers faster. Dara makes sure what they send is right.
Every draft, read against the sources that govern it.
The open web is not a source. When a document is ready, Dara reads it against the law, the client’s instructions and the firm’s own precedent, all inside Microsoft Word.
Applicable law
Statutes and regulations
The legislation and rules that govern the document.
2.1The Purchase Price shall be £12,750,000.
7.3The Seller shall notify the regulator within 14 days, as section 13 of the Act expressly requires.
9.2Warranty claims are time-barred after two years, as held in Hartwell v Osei [2019] EWHC 2210 (Comm).
KRequirement not in the Act
Clause 7.3 says section 13 requires notice within 14 days. Section 13 contains no such requirement.
Matter instructions
Client briefs and term sheets
The commercial terms actually agreed.
2.1The Purchase Price shall be £12,750,000.
7.3The Seller shall notify the regulator within 14 days, as section 13 of the Act expressly requires.
9.2Warranty claims are time-barred after two years, as held in Hartwell v Osei [2019] EWHC 2210 (Comm).
KPrice differs from the term sheet
Clause 2.1 sets the purchase price at £12,750,000. The term sheet agreed £12,500,000.
Firm knowledge
Precedents and citations
Established drafting and every cited authority.
2.1The Purchase Price shall be £12,750,000.
7.3The Seller shall notify the regulator within 14 days, as section 13 of the Act expressly requires.
9.2Warranty claims are time-barred after two years, as held in Hartwell v Osei [2019] EWHC 2210 (Comm).
KCited case not found
Clause 9.2 relies on Hartwell v Osei [2019] EWHC 2210 (Comm). No matching authority was found.
Open a matter. Set your sources. Run the review.
One panel inside Word. No new software to learn and no documents leaving your server. Most teams are reviewing within ten minutes.
II. Overview
Definition of Payment System
A payment system means a funds transfer system with formal and standardised arrangements and common rules that are not used for the processing, clearing or settlement of payment transactions.
Licensing timeline
The FCA will usually decide a complete application within three months.
Definition of Electronic Money
Electronic money means electronically stored monetary value, represented by a claim on the issuer and issued on receipt of funds for making payment transactions.
KAdvice re FCA authorisation
Where should this review live?
Matter
Review within a matter
Uses the matter’s sources, instructions and review history. Everything is saved to the matter.
Quick review
Review on its own
Add sources just for this review. Nothing is saved to a matter.
You can switch later from the Review tab. The document stays as it is.
Open or create a matter
Every review lives in a matter: the document, its sources, its instructions and the review history. Pick one, start a new one, or review the document on its own.
A full review, without leaving Microsoft Word.
From choosing the sources for a matter to clearing the document to send, every step happens in the panel beside your draft.
Matter setup
The matter and its sources
Inside Word, the review runs within a matter: the client brief, the governing law and the firm’s precedent, attached once and used for every draft.
Results
A consistency grade, and what to resolve
Dara returns a grade from A to NR with a plain explanation, then the findings to resolve, grouped as Hard Conflicts, Omissions and Soft Conflicts.
Finding detail
Your draft against the exact source
Each finding shows the passage in your draft, what the source actually says, and why the difference matters. Locate takes you straight to it in Word.
Apply the fix
Suggested wording, applied as a tracked change
Dara shows the wording it would use, checked against the draft. Apply it, accept the text as it is with a note, or mark the finding resolved.
Within the document
When the draft disagrees with itself
Dara also catches passages of the same draft that contradict each other. Choose the wording to keep and see the exact change before it goes into Word.
Chat
Ask about the document
Chat answers from the open draft and the sources selected for the matter, and shows where each answer comes from.
Ready to send
Everything resolved before it leaves
As findings are resolved the grade moves. When nothing is left to resolve, the document is ready to send, with a record of what was checked.
II. Overview
Definition of Payment System
A payment system means a funds transfer system with formal and standardised arrangements and common rules that are not used for the processing, clearing or settlement of payment transactions.
Definition of Payment Service
A service enabling cash to be placed on, or withdrawn from, a payment account, or the execution of payment transactions.
KReview sources
Clearwater Payments
3 matter sources will be used in this review
Drop files to add sources
PDF, Word, text, Markdown or CSV
Client Brief – Clearwater.pdf
Client brief
Payment Services Regulations 2017
Statute
Firm precedent – PI authorisation.docx
Reference
Ready to review
3 references will be checked.
II. Overview
Definition of Payment System
A payment system means a funds transfer system with formal and standardised arrangements and common rules that are not used for the processing, clearing or settlement of payment transactions.
Definition of Payment Service
A service enabling cash to be placed on, or withdrawn from, a payment account, or the execution of payment transactions.
KReview sources
Clearwater Payments
3 matter sources will be used in this review
Drop files to add sources
PDF, Word, text, Markdown or CSV
Client Brief – Clearwater.pdf
Client brief
Payment Services Regulations 2017
Statute
Firm precedent – PI authorisation.docx
Reference
Ready to review
3 references will be checked.
The matter and its sources
Inside Word, the review runs within a matter: the client brief, the governing law and the firm’s precedent, attached once and used for every draft.
The law itself, open beside the draft.
Search the statutes of the countries you work in, read them in full, and add them to the review as a source, without leaving Word.
Find the law
Every law of the country that governs the matter.
Choose the country, and its state or region where it has them, then search by title, number or citation.
KSearch by keyword
The sections that use your words.
Search inside the laws themselves. Each result opens at the section, with your words marked.
KFind the sections of any law that use your words. For example:
Read it in full
The law, set like the printed statute.
Read any law in Text view, move between its Parts and sections, and add it to the review as a source in one click.
KSI 2017/752 · 157 regulations In force
The Payment Services Regulations 2017
United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments · 2017 No. 752
The Payment Services Regulations 2017
Financial services and markets
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
Part 2
Registration
5. Application for authorisation as a payment institution
(1)An application for authorisation as a payment institution must contain, or be accompanied by, the information specified in Schedule 2.
(2)The application must be made in such manner as the FCA may direct.
6. Conditions for authorisation
(1)The FCA may refuse to grant an application for authorisation only if any of the conditions set out in paragraphs (2) to (9) is not met.
(2)The applicant must be a body corporate constituted under the law of a part of the United Kingdom.
7. Imposition of requirements
(1)The FCA may include in an authorisation such requirements as it considers appropriate.
Wherever you advise, the law is already here.
Statutes and regulations from each country, with its states and nations where it has them. Search them, read them in full and add them to a review without leaving the document.
United Kingdom
Westminster, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
86,290 laws
United States
Federal law and the codes of 27 states
42,066 laws
Australia
The Commonwealth and five states
40,755 laws
Canada
Ontario statutes and regulations
4,847 laws
Singapore
Acts and subsidiary legislation
2,273 laws
Ghana
Acts, decrees and legislative instruments
1,273 laws
Nigeria
Federal Acts and the Constitution
867 laws
0laws0.00million sections, each one searchableNew countries join the Library as they are published
The most expensive hours in law are spent checking, not thinking.
A junior misquotes a definition and nobody notices before the client does. Partners spend hours on checking that needs their seniority, not their judgment, and when something slips through, there is no record of what was checked.
Before Dara
Checking by hand, never billed
5–7 hrs
A week, for each lawyer.
Every definition, cross-reference and citation is read against the Act, the brief and the firm’s precedent, on every draft. None of it can be billed.
With Dara
Dara does the first full check
3.5 hrs
Saved on a typical document.
Checking by hand
With Dara
3.5 hrs back
Dara reads the draft against every source first and marks what does not match. The lawyer reviews what it found, instead of re-reading the whole document.
Over a year
Returned to fee-earning work
£87.5k
Across 50 matters.
50
matters
3.5 hrs
saved each
£500
an hour
Three and a half hours back on each matter, at the rate the client already pays. Time that goes to advice instead of re-reading.
Private by architecture. Not by policy.
Dara gives each firm an isolated environment for document review. Lawyers work through the add-in in Microsoft Word, and everything Dara finds comes back to the document.
Your firm
Isolated environment
Microsoft Word
Reviewed in Word. Findings return to the document.
Kept for your firm
Firm B
No access
Firm C
No access
An environment for each firm
Every firm’s documents are processed in their own environment, separate from other firms’ data.
Never used to train models
Your documents are never used to train shared models.
Signed-in sessions only
Every review runs in an authenticated user session inside the Dara add-in.
Results stay in Word
Findings, evidence and suggested revisions return straight to the document.
What teams noticed in the first weeks.
Lawyers who tested Dara on their own drafts and sources, in their own words.
Frequently asked questions.
Yes. Dara is a Microsoft Word add-in. It opens as a panel beside your document in Word on Windows, Mac and the web, so there is no new software for the team to learn.
Bring Dara into your review.
We are opening Dara to a small group of lawyers and firms ahead of its wider release.
For one month you use Dara inside Microsoft Word on your own drafts, checked against your own sources. We ask for a short onboarding call and honest feedback on what Dara gets right and wrong. Places are limited and selected for fit.