360 Legal Forms vs A2J Author

360 Legal Forms is a web-based self-help service for creating personal, business, and real-estate legal documents. Its library contains more than 270 forms, which the company says are built by legal experts and designed for all 50 states. To prepare a document, choose a form, answer guided questions, then customize, download, print, or sign it. Users can sign online and invite others to review and sign. Account-based document management and cloud storage make files accessible from any device. Paid plans provide Word and PDF downloads, with unlimited downloads while the relevant plan or document access remains active. Choices include a full-library subscription for $7.99 a month, a single document for 39.00 USD one-time, online notarization for $25, and attorney document review for $39.99 a month. Support is available by phone, chat, and email; email replies may take up to one business day. The company says it is not a law firm, gives no legal advice, and does not review documents for legal sufficiency or enforceability.

A2J Author lets court, legal services, and law school staff create web-based guided interviews to help self-represented litigants complete court documents. Authors use a graphical flowchart map to arrange dialogue and branching questions. Document tools include a template automator for basic documents and the A2J Document Assembly Tool for creating templates. CALI offers free hosting on A2J.org for interviews and templates intended to assist litigants; organizations can also self-host the A2J Viewer, A2J DAT, and interviews. The system is browser-based, and the project history says version 7.0 opened the source under the GNU Affero General Public License. Authors can create Section 508 and WCAG2-compliant interviews when using the latest Viewer and following the accessibility checklist. The free plan is for legal aid organizations, government entities, courts, and other nonprofits using the software non-commercially, with a registered and authenticated account. HotDocs templates cannot be published on A2J.org. When self-hosting, generating documents from HotDocs templates requires LawHelp Interactive or a HotDocs server.