Here is our page of requirements. There are many, many specialisms which we have not even considered. In addition, you can draw sets of pleadings and even completed examples of commonly used forms.

Only England and Wales, until 2007, when we opened new sites for Scotland, Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa and New Zealand.
Now we plan to open a site for every English speaking jurisdiction, serviced by you - the specialist professionals qualified in that jurisdiction.

You certainly may. You can have two or more "bites at the cherry", for only a little more drafting time. You can do this both for countries where you have expertise, such as England and Ireland, or Australia and New Zealand, or of course within countries which have several jurisdictions.

We will continue to offer our own documents wherever we can support them. At the same time, we will offer documents provided by any other qualified legal professional.

If you are in practice, maybe the most important aspect is not document sales but very low cost practice marketing! However, you can browse the Net Lawman documents for sale menus to see what documents we offer which might compete with your own specialism. It is up to you to decide whether you can do better. You can provide a wider variety, or you could rely on your stunning one page bio to sell your documents.

We will leave it to our customer to decide which document suits him best. Of course, we will not accept a document which duplicates another. You must differentiate your documents from others which we offer. But the differences need not be great. Since most will be laymen, they will select by reference not only by perceived suitability of the document, but also to the bio you have submitted, which is linked to the page which "sells" your document.
However, where we find we have a truly great collection of documents for a narrow specialism, we may close that category to future draftsmen. We do rely on the quality of our product to drive our growth.

Look at the title. Each document is titled to reflect its contents. If in doubt, ask us and we will tell you more about our existing offering.

Customers sometimes like a short version. If we think there is a sale for both, we shall offer both. If your version is self evidently better than ours, we remove ours.

This is very unlikely. Six lawyers will provide six different drafts. Only if the content overlaps substantially will we consider action. We might ask one or more draftsmen to make small changes. We might refuse the later offerings. We might leave them in competition. We shall remove the first documents only if it is absolutely clear to us that the new ones are better.
If you are an acknowledged "authority" on a subject, we will consider an exclusive arrangement.

The prime responsibility is yours. However, we will send you a periodic reminder if no change has been made for some time. We also have a researcher whose exclusive work is to find new law and tell us about it. We will inform you of anything which might be relevant.

Remember that you are selling to both laymen and the profession - and the occasional foreign lawyer too. Drafting notes should draw attention to legal and tactical pitfalls, and make suggestions as to which paragraphs should remain in place at all costs, and which are a matter of choice. However, they should not try to explain the wider law, such as the effect of an act. Information of that nature is contained in our "info" pages.

First, it is obviously in your interest to keep your documents up to date with current law. We shall remind you of this from time to time. Secondly, we have always offered "5 minutes free telephone advice" to our document buyers. You do not have to offer this. It is an option. Of course, it is another splendid opportunity to sell your skills.

Go to your control panel and click button "Remove this document from sale". It is removed immediately.

Yes, we do sell 200 or so example letters. The scope here is vast. But letters must be sold in packs. Simply submit a set of letters as you would a single document.

Yes - and no. We operate a policy of taking no liability for documents sold. You will join us under that umbrella. We have to, as we have no control over what someone might do with one. But we do take an indemnity from you in respect of claims arising from your document containing bad law. We have never had such a claim, but since we shall not control what you put on our site, we obviously need to protect ourselves.

Until now, we have serviced primarily small and medium enterprises. 10% of our sales were to solicitors. Now we will sell to all legal professionals too, skips down page to "Sales to the profession" because our document base will be broader and draftsmen will be able to demonstrate current, specialist knowledge

We shall not try. We shall use a review system, open to both laymen and professional lawyers. If a document is criticised reasonably, we shall withdraw it from sale. However, we believe the professional reputations of lawyers are so valuable that both lay and professional clients of the website will be happy to buy.

Yes, it is very easy. Our system is automated, so that you simply enter info as asked on a web page, then upload the document. The web page is created automatically too. You can edit any item you insert at any time.

We do promote "plain English" firmly. This means:

• avoidance of legalese and old fashioned phraseology
• modern use of punctuation
• use of sub paragraphs in preference to lists along the line
• modern use of punctuation
• general presentation in a form which enables a user to del one point without affecting others.

If you offer your own documents for client leads and a royalty, we shall look only briefly at your input. (If you draw documents for Net Lawman to sell, then yes, we shall require you to comply with our "plain English" philosophy, explained, as I say, as soon as you have signed up.).

Each document has its own description page, which we call a "docintro" page. It tells when the document should be used and lists the contents, gives the price, and so on. We ask you to provide this information, in reply to specific questions. You can see an example at here.

There are several points here: first, we ask you how can anyone claim copyright in any legal term or phrase or sentence which is in common professional use? Our opinion is that you would have to blatantly copy a document drawn by another for that other to be able to complain. We know that the problem actually arises because we all have our own favourite precedents which must have started life as someone else's precedents! Our view is that while "you are on your own on this", it is most unlikely that any person or organisation can complain if you use your version.

Our documents are kept on our servers and cannot be released until a payment has been made. They cannot be accessed by any automated system. We also have a security system whereby any buyer of more than a small number of documents is stopped after that number, while we investigate. However, a criminal operator could simply buy your documents over a period of time and none of us would ever know.
We also run periodic Google checks of selected phrases. This throws up Internet usage of our documents, but cannot prevent a competitor from re-engineering them. We suggest that the risk of this is no different from the many other risks of breach of copyright you take every day.

Yes, it will. It will be downloaded in the form in which you upload it. We assume it will show your reference and firm name on the front sheet, just as if it was a finished version for your client. Your drafting notes also provide an opportunity to show your professional competence and "soft sell" your further services.

Yes, in a document you can give a link to your website, or to the bio you have placed on our site, or both. You may even place your contact info as a footer on every page. This is "your" document. How you present yourself is up to you.

We are writing a sister site to this, named WorldLawList.org. We have long thought that most people who want a lawyer want a human being, not a firm. Your firm's marketing manager will not be happy to hear us say that, but you know it is true. We all know that if you do a good job for a client, he comes back to you and not to your colleague, even if you tell him you know nothing about his new problem.
So we are preparing a directory of individual lawyers. We are taking the basic data from many sources, but much of it can come only from individual lawyers who decide what they want the World to know about them.
We are linking Net Lawman to this directory, so that when you enter a document for sale, you give us the sort of information a prospective new client wants to know. We also give you the opportunity to add personal sparkle - in whatever way you think will best attract clients to your specialism.

Yes, you can help us to increase our "own brand" documents. As stated above, we pay £15 per 1,000 words.

We have no idea! But you will make money by working in this way only if you have access to your accumulated store of documents or you have a specialism you can call upon immediately.
However, as we explain in our Notes for Draftsmen, the best way to work is to produce a single "master" version of a new document, then "child" versions for specific common applications. In that way, you will draw maybe ten documents in 20 hours, earning say £450.

We intend to promote sales in many ways. This is a major new market which we shall promote strongly. Clearly, a recognized expert will sell many documents. Some firms may even specify that their fee earners can buy documents by certain specified experts. We suggest you put together a "collection" of documents in a particular specialism, so that it is clear to a professional buyer that you really are an expert. It goes without saying that a firm name "FGH Chambers" will carry more weight than "John Doe".

The age of the legal specialist arrived 30 years ago. Few lawyers know enough to be able to produce high quality documents even in their own specialism. Precedents from the "big 2" are expensive and despite their comprehensive application, do not always cover a specific situation. What is more, you know it takes you an hour simply to knock out the notes, plurals and other alternatives. We hope the documents provided by Net Lawman will be "problem specific", so that you can save time and still produce a perfect document.

The system will be simple: a firm or individual will register staff passwords and pay any sum on account; the larger the payment, the greater the discount on all documents until that payment is exhausted. Fee earners may then download documents at will. An invoice will be raised at the time of each purchase, in case you wish to treat the cost as a disbursement in the case.

Yes, no charge. By all means use our website as a data base for your internal precedents. However, everything you upload will of course also be for sale to third parties.

You will have to check with your insurer, of course. But it should be clear that in supplying document templates to Net Lawman, you are not giving advice nor providing a service. Your liability is limited to the correctness in law at the date you submit it to us. Even that is itself subject to our terms and conditions in which we absolve ourselves and you from liability. If you still have any problem, do please ring Andrew Taylor on +44 1379 608002 or email Lawsupport@NetLawman.
This information does not constitute an offer. It is presented in good faith with a view to negotiating an arrangement depending on our assessed attraction of the documents and jurisdictions you propose.

You can sign up now, however the website and auto systems are not yet complete. If you sign up now, we shall deal with all aspects "semi manually" until around the beginning of July 2008.