Forms are coded in accordance with the Matter Type and the tables that default to that particular Matter Type.

If you need to search for a LEAP Form but are not in a matter particular for usage of that form (for example: using a Conveyancing/Property-based precedent in a Personal Injury matter), it is likely that that form will not merge the required information. This is much due to the fact that the relevant tables are not being used in that Matter Type.

You may need to add Edit Table Types to add the required tables to complete the required information to populate into the Form.

There are two types of documents contained in LEAP for our clients to use:

• Forms - managed by the Australian LEAP Content Development team; and
• Precedents - managed by the By Lawyers team.

To assist when allocating any requests for support to the appropriate team, LEAP Support will require the precedent code for the document you require assistance with.

LEAP Support logs will then be assigned to the relevant teams, relating to the different types of forms or precedents.

The following are examples of the precedent codes:

• By Lawyers: BLFL:NSW:CNV:123
• LEAP Content: LL-NSW-PRP084

To locate the Precedent Code:

Some LEAP Forms have been set up with instructional text. If you cannot see the ‘instructional text’ in a document (which is hidden text), the ‘Show/Hide’ codes in Microsoft Word will need to be turned on.

Formatting is applied to all instructional or alternative text, it is blue or red in font colour and italicised and a smaller font size and should not print. If clients want to include any of the alternative text they will need to either type or remove the formatting of hidden text from the instructional text.

In addition, there are detailed information guides for particular automated precedents (including the Settlement Sheet/Settlement Adjustment Sheet, Application for Consent Orders, Financial Statement, amongst others).

If the hidden text (instructional text) is printing in your document, it is most likely that the Microsoft Word function that prints “Hidden text” has been selected.

To remove this Hidden Text option, you will need to do the following:

LEAP is continually updated, and you should have access to the most up to date forms.

There are instances where a firm has modified a form, which will keep this version as the current version.

To see whether this is the case you will need to do the following:

We are not allowed to reproduce all forms/documents due to certain copyright laws.

This are generally documents published by a:

• Law Society; or
• Law Institute

Some examples of these forms are Contracts for the Sale of Real Estate, Contracts for the Sale of Business, amongst others. If there is a copyright symbol © on the original form, we are unable to reproduce it without either a licence/or permission from the relevant authority.

Each time the LEAP Forms are updated, our Content Development Team will publish a post in our LEAP Matter Type & Form Updates.

To view the LEAP  Matter Type & Form Updates, please visit: https://community.leap.com.au/s/blog

To receive e-mail notifications of the changes as they are logged by our Content Development Team, you can subscribe to the individual States and Territories by clicking on the link for the State or Territory across the top-right of the LEAP Matter Type & Form Updates and completing your details in the Subscribe section - shown below:

If you are in a document and have concerns about a LEAP Form, click on the Provide Feedback button on the LEAP toolbar.

This will take you to a website where you provide further details of your feedback and then submit the relevant precedent related feedback.

This will be then be followed by the creation of a Salesforce support case and, if relevant, be assigned to the Content Development team for further investigation.

For any (new) Content feature requests, please continue to do this via the LEAP Community webpage (https://community.leap.com.au/s/community): Community > Feedback > Feedback & Ideas User Guide.

A Matter and Form Information Guide will help you identify what important Matter Information is required to complete specific forms, including the Settlement Adjustment Sheet/Settlement State, Family Law Financial Statement etc.

You will find the Information Guides on the LEAP Community page which is accessible via the in LEAP:

From the LEAP Community page, click on the Forms & Precedents > LEAP Matter & Forms dropdown and select Matter and Form Information Guides.

From here you will be able to view the various Matter and Form Information Guides available.

You can now also access Matter and Form Information Guides directly within the LEAP Forms folders of the relevant matter type: