Do I need to install LegisPro Collaborate?

No installation required. LegisPro Collaborate is web-based and accessible from your browser.

What are the ways we can collaborate?

You can collaborate by working on the same document together, commenting, suggesting changes, sharing for input, and controlling access to drafts.

How many individuals can collaborate on a document at once?

A lot. With section or segment locking, each segment is treated as a unique file. This virtually eliminates computer resources required to manage very large documents. So the limitation of collaborators is defined by the number of segments or sections within a document.

What if I'm a lobbyist or special interest group?

LegisPro Collaborate gives you an opportunity to draft bills, amendments, and other instruments in the same fashion as legislative counsels. Your drafts will look like theirs in format and structure. LegisPro Collaborate makes it easy to pull in legislation or regulation you'd like to suggest changes to and gives you the power to draft with precision.

Is my bill more likely to be passed, if I use LegisPro Collaborate?

LegisPro Collaborate provides professional formatting and precision drafting tools that help create high-quality legislative documents.

Clause & Effect^®

Clause & Effect automatically applies proposed legislative changes to existing law, showing you what the law would look like if the bill were enacted.

Upload a bill and see additions, deletions, and changes directly in the context of current law; in minutes instead of hours.

Rethinking Legislative Drafting for the Age of AI

Clause & Effect showing redlines of a law based on proposed bill amendments.

See What a Bill Really Changes

A bill tells you what language should be changed. It doesn't always make it easy to understand what those changes actually mean.

Determining the full effect of proposed legislation can require analysts to locate existing statutes, identify affected provisions, manually apply amendments, and reconstruct the resulting law before meaningful analysis can even begin.

Clause & Effect changes the starting point.

Upload the bill. See the affected law. See the proposed changes in context. Start analyzing.

How it Works

Key Benefits

Save Time

Reduce hours of manual reconstruction.

Improve Analysis

Give policy and legal teams a clearer picture of what legislation actually does.

See Changes In-Context

See exactly where proposed language changes existing law.

Respond Faster

Understand proposed legislation quickly when hearings, briefings, meetings, or votes are approaching.

Who Clause & Effect Serves

Government Agencies

Understand how proposed legislation could affect programs, authorities, regulations, responsibilities, and operations.

Legislators & Legislative Staff

Quickly understand proposed changes before committee meetings, briefings, debates, and votes.

Policy & Legal Teams

Spend less time reconstructing legislation and more time analyzing its implications.

Goverment Affairs & Lobbying Teams

Understand how proposed legislation could affect clients, industries, organizations, and policy patterns.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to install Clause & Effect?

No. Clause & Effect is available as SaaS. Xcential will help you set-up your account and get started.

What types of bills and from which jursidictions are handled?

Clause & Effect works with proposed bills for the U.S. Congress and U.S. Federal agencies, today.

However, Clause & Effect can handle amending language from other jurisdictions. Please let us know which jurisdiction you are in, and we can discuss support.

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Here is another Clause & Effect specific answerNo. Passing legislation and regulation is meant to be a collaborative and deliberative process. LegisPro Collaborate will not get you additional votes on your ideas.

Clause & Effect®

See What a Bill Really Changes

How it Works

Key Benefits

Save Time

Improve Analysis

See Changes In-Context

Respond Faster

Who Clause & Effect Serves

Government Agencies

Legislators & Legislative Staff

Policy & Legal Teams

Goverment Affairs & Lobbying Teams

Frequently Asked Questions

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