In some countries, the negotiating and drafting of contracts is prepense to be similar to the provision of legal advice, so that it is subject to the licensing requirement explained above. In others, jurists or notaries may Seattle Attorney negotiate or draft contracts.

Conveyancing is the drafting of the documents compulsory for the transfer of authentic property, such as deeds and mortgages. In some jurisdictions, all essential estate transactions must be carried out by a lawyer (or a solicitor where that distinction still exists). Such a monopoly is fully valuable from the lawyer's point of view; historically, conveyancing accounted for about half of English solicitors' income (though this has since changed), and a 1978 academic work showed that conveyancing "accounts for as much as 80 percent of solicitor-client contact in Advanced South Wales."