Doc Assist, a new service combining the power of AI and LegalZoom’s expertise in legal tech, allows users to speed up their review of legal contracts by highlighting and summarizing important information in easy to understand language. Doc Assist provides users with three types of information: a. Overview: a high-level recap of contract details, including party names, principal rights and obligations, dates, and dollar amounts. b. Clauses: detailed, yet easy-to-understand summaries of individual sections of the contract. c. Q&A: document-specific common questions and answers with additional helpful information.

We built Doc Assist to help people better understand legal documents, such as contracts and other agreements, that are intended to be used within the US. We’ve focused on English-language contracts that small businesses in particular are most likely to encounter throughout their journey. However, Doc Assist can also help you understand common personal agreements, such as residential leases, website privacy policies, cell phone contracts, and more. Currently, the service works only with text-based documents that are less than 5MB in size. You can confirm that your PDF/DOCX/DOC/TXT is compatible by making sure that you can highlight text and/or do a word search within the document.

Doc Assist relies on rapidly-evolving generative AI technology, so some information may be incomplete or inaccurate. While Doc Assist can provide information to help you better understand your legal documents, it does not provide any legal advice. If you’re looking for legal guidance, we offer a Business Advisory Plan that gives you unlimited access to 30 minute consultations with an attorney on new topics, including document reviews.

No, but we hope to open up the service to other markets in the future

As explained in our Privacy Policy, we may use the information you provide through Doc Assist to improve the product’s performance, which may involve training our own proprietary AI models. Your data will not be used to train any third-party AI tools or services.

If you are having issues uploading your document into the tool, please ensure that the document is a text-based PDF/DOCX/DOC/TXT, is maximum 5MB in size, and that the file is not corrupted. Scanned images that have been converted into PDFs and other file types can’t be processed. If you’re still experiencing issues, please email our customer care team customersupport@legalzoom.com for additional support.

When you upload a document to Doc Assist, the original document is stored in LegalZoom’s secure documents center. You can access documents center by logging into your LegalZoom account, clicking “Documents” on the left panel, and then selecting “eSignature.” Your document will be listed in “All files” view, or you can search for your document by name in the upper right corner of the screen. The document summary generated by Doc Assist is stored in a secure LegalZoom database.

While Doc Assist can provide information to help you better understand the content of your legal documents, it does so for informational purposes only. Doc Assist does not provide legal advice. If you’re looking for legal guidance, we offer a Business Advisory Plan that gives you unlimited access to 30 min consultations on new topics, including document reviews.

You may use Doc Assist to generate up to 10 document summaries per day.

The processing time for a document depends on the number of pages, amount of text, and overall system traffic at the time of upload. On average, it takes less than 2 minutes to generate a complete summary. You will receive an email once your document summary is ready to be reviewed.

Yes, you can download the summary by navigating to the top right of the page and clicking on the second icon to the right with the “down” arrow.

You can take the following actions: a. Send your document for electronic signature by clicking “Sign Document” b. Have an independent attorney from our network review your document by clicking “Get attorney review” c. Download the summary file as a pdf