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Legal Drafting & Writing Outsourcing
Drafting is where legal work turns into billable hours slowly. A motion that takes your associate four hours takes a trained legal writer the same four hours — but at a fraction of the cost, and without pulling your associate off the matters that need their judgment.
Magellan drafts pleadings, briefs, memoranda, demand letters, and contracts to your templates and your house style. Every document comes back to your attorneys for review and sign-off.
At a Glance
| Best For | Firms whose associates are drafting routine documents at associate rates, and practices with steady document volume that justifies a full-time writer |
| Core Support | Pleadings, motions and briefs, legal memoranda, demand letters, contracts, client correspondence |
| Delivery | A dedicated legal writer directed by your firm — one full-time seat minimum — drafting to your templates and returning every document for attorney review and signature |
The most expensive way to produce a first draft
Most firms produce routine documents the same way they produce complex ones: an associate opens the last similar file, adapts it, and bills the hours. For a novel motion that's exactly right. For the fourteenth demand letter this month, it's an expensive way to get to a first draft.
The work still has to be done well — a sloppy pleading costs more than it saves. But "done well" and "done by the most expensive person available" aren't the same requirement, and the gap between them is where drafting support pays for itself.
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What We Draft
Your Templates, Your House Style
The value of outsourced drafting is entirely in whether the draft is usable. A document that needs rewriting cost you more than drafting it yourself.
So the work starts from your material, not a generic precedent:
Your precedent library — we draft from your templates and prior filings, not from scratch
Your house style — citation format, defined terms, heading structure, and the conventions your firm actually uses
Your jurisdiction's requirements — formatting, caption, and filing conventions for the courts you appear in
Your preferences — the phrasing and structure your partners expect to see
Onboarding is where this gets built. Expect to supply templates, a handful of model documents, and feedback on the first drafts — after which the corrections stop repeating.
A Dedicated Writer, Directed by Your Firm
Drafting to a firm's house style is not something a rotating pool can do. The conventions — how your partners phrase things, which arguments get led with, what your defined-term block looks like — are learned once and then applied, and that only works if it's the same person every time.
So this is a dedicated resource, not a per-document service. Your legal writer is your staff member in everything but payroll: they work from your precedent library, take direction and priorities from your team, and get better at your documents the longer they work on them. Minimum engagement is one full-time seat.
What Magellan provides Recruitment and vetting, employment and HR, secure facilities and IT, and continuity cover if your writer is unavailable.
What your firm provides Direction, priorities, your templates and model documents, and feedback on early drafts — the practice-specific training that turns a competent legal writer into one who writes like your firm.
That trade is the point of the model: a dedicated writer at Philippine cost, without carrying the hiring, employment, or infrastructure. What you keep is the management.
Drafted by Us, Owned by Your Attorneys
Drafting sits closer to the practice of law than any other service on this site, so the boundary matters more here — and stating it plainly is a feature, not a disclaimer.
What we do: prepare drafts from your instructions, your templates, your research, and the facts of the matter.
What your attorneys do: everything that requires legal judgment. Strategy and argument are yours. Every draft is reviewed, revised as needed, and signed by your attorney. Nothing we produce is filed, sent, or executed without that review.
What we never do: advise your clients, decide strategy, select arguments on your behalf, sign anything, or appear for your firm.
A draft is a starting point that saves your attorney the blank page. It is not legal work product until your attorney has made it so.
Contract Review
Drafting a contract and reviewing someone else's are different jobs. Drafting starts from your precedent; review starts from a document you didn't write, looking for what's missing, what's unfavorable, and what's changed since the last version.
If reviewing inbound contracts is the work you need covered, that's legal contract review services.
Why Firms Outsource Drafting
Confidentiality Built In
Drafting means access to matter facts, client information, and strategy — privileged material by definition. Every Magellan staff member signs a confidentiality agreement enforceable under Philippine law before assignment, and access is limited to the team working your firm. Magellan operates under ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance.
Magellan holds ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance — the recognized benchmarks for information security and data protection. See our certifications.
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Network and IT infrastructure sits in secured, IT-only locations. Workstations and servers are password-protected across access levels, and physical data-entry points are disabled to prevent unauthorized transfer.
Every employee signs a confidentiality agreement before job assignment — subject to Philippine law and prosecutable on breach. Access to your data is limited to the team working your account.
Continuous data backup with off-site copies, a co-location plan with a backup center outside a 10-mile radius, and power-blackout protection — so work on your matters doesn't stop when circumstances change.
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