How We Create Legal Templates
Every template on Forms Legal is built and maintained by our founder with an automated statute-validation pipeline — researched against primary statutes, drafted with country-specific legal terminology, and validated through 20+ automated quality checks. Each is a reference template, not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney for your specific situation.
Vladislav Sergienko — Founder
Legal-technology builder · not a practising lawyer
I built and maintain Forms Legal and its automated statute-validation pipeline. I am not a lawyer and Forms Legal is not a law firm — every template is a statute-referenced reference document, machine-validated and linked to the official source so you can verify it yourself, not legal advice. I am the named point of accountability: if a citation is wrong, report it and it gets fixed.
To be clear about who I am: a software and legal-technology builder, not a public figure. The Vladislav Sergienko behind Forms Legal is the person who built this site, its open statute-template dataset on Hugging Face and its GitHub project, beginning in 2026. I have no connection to other people who happen to share this name.
Our Template Creation Process
Research Phase
Every template begins with research into the specific laws, regulations, and court decisions that govern that document type in its jurisdiction. We study the primary legislation with section-level citations, regulatory guidance from government bodies, and published court decisions to ensure each template reflects the actual legal framework — not a generic approximation of it.
Drafting Phase
Templates are drafted to include all legally required clauses, proper definitions, jurisdiction-specific terminology, and correct formatting conventions for each country. A residential lease for New South Wales references the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW) and includes mandatory disclosure requirements specific to that state. A Nigerian employment contract references the Labour Act Cap L1 LFN 2004. Every template is country-specific by design.
Automated QA
Every template passes our automated validation system that checks field completeness, legal reference accuracy, governing law clauses, signature blocks, and country-specific compliance requirements. Our pipeline runs 20+ checks per template before publication. Templates that fail any check are flagged and corrected before going live.
Reader-Reported Corrections
Statutes change, and we do not continuously monitor every legislature. We rely on automated checks that each cited statute still resolves at its official source, and on reader reports: when someone flags an inaccuracy, we verify it against the primary source, fix the affected template, and record the correction in our public log.
Our Content Standards
- Each document page contains 1,400–2,100 words of original legal content, written for that specific document type and jurisdiction.
- Content cites specific statutes, section numbers, and case law — not general descriptions of what a law “typically says.”
- All content is country-specific — not adapted from a generic template and adjusted for local terminology.
- Content passes anti-AI-slop quality gates: zero banned filler phrases, entity-first writing, and passage-level self-containment so each section stands on its own.
What We Are Not
Forms Legal is not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship is formed by using our templates or reading our content.
Our templates are self-help tools based on thorough legal research and automated quality assurance. For complex matters or high-stakes transactions, we always recommend consulting a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction.
We believe radical transparency about our process is more valuable than unverifiable “attorney-reviewed” claims. You know exactly how our documents are made.
Report an Error
If you identify an inaccuracy in any template — an outdated statute reference, a missing required clause, or incorrect jurisdiction-specific language — please contact us at [email protected].
We investigate every report and update affected templates promptly. Corrections are applied to the live site and the template is re-validated through our automated QA pipeline.
We welcome feedback from legal professionals worldwide. If you practice in a jurisdiction we cover and notice an issue, your report helps us correct it — every confirmed correction is recorded with the date and a link to the exact change in our public Corrections Log.