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ContactsLaw offers a feature to duplicate documents. The duplicate document feature is accessible from the document context menu (which appears when right-clicking a document on the Documents tab of a file, contact or My Portal.
 
Duplicate document
Documents are duplicated primarily for the following reasons:
  1. To re-draft a document that has been finalised. A new, draft document is created using the original document as a base.
  2. To create a redacted copy of an existing document. You can convert to PDF as part of the process, if desired. 
Duplicating a document creates an independant copy of the document file as well as its metadata (i.e. information entered during cataloguing/creation). Previous versions of the document are not copied. If the document has been finalised, the copy will be reset to draft status.
 
You have the opportunity to change the description of the document, change the related file and/or move the document to a different folder.

Duplicating read-only documents formats

You should NOT use the duplicate document feature on read-only documents (such as PDFs). Since documents of this type cannot be edited, there is no value in copying the data inside the document. Doing so simply creates an identical, redundant copy which occupies more space in the document library.