When it comes to standalone editing software for legal professionals, there have been basically three choices: BriefCatch, WordRake, and PerfectIt. Now that list is one shorter, as BriefCatch has acquired WordRake.
According to Ross Guberman, founder of BriefCatch, his company has acquired WordRake’s core product and technology assets. The WordRake product…
As reported here yesterday, the legal editing software WordRake released a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language.
With this release, WordRake now has two editing modes: Brevity and Simplicity. You might consider the Brevity…
See also followup: I Put WordRake’s New Version 4.0 to the Test Against the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.
The legal editing software WordRake is today releasing a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a…
An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word.
Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Word, is intended to establish for…
I recently had the great honor to be interviewed by Ivy B. Grey, vice president, strategy & business development, at WordRake, about lessons learned in journalism that can be applied in law.
The interview is now posted at WordRake, where we discuss what journalism can teach legal professionals about effective writing, interviewing, working…
Nominations open today for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards, a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology.
Awards will be given in eight categories: access to justice, court, enterprise, individual, technology, law department, law firm, and startup.
Deadline for nominations is Aug. 31, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome.…
The legal technology company WordRake, whose software helps legal professionals hone their writing, has entered into a collaboration with the Access to Justice Technology Fellows, a program that trains law students to work with technology to enhance the delivery of legal services, through which each fellow will receive a one-year license to use…
Nicole Abboud-Shayan, the lawyer and legal marketer who founded and hosted the popular podcast, The Gen Y Lawyer, has joined editing-software company WordRake as business development associate, where she will be responsible for helping to drive the company’s growth and support its strategic initiatives.
“I’ve always been really intrigued by how people…
With the Nov. 1 deadline for submissions fast approaching, I am thrilled to announce the stellar line-up of judges for the inaugural LexBlog Excellence Awards, which will honor exemplary writing on legal blogs.
As I explained in a post announcing the awards, these awards are unlike other “best blog” awards. Rather than…
Students in the first-year legal writing program at Suffolk University Law School this year will get free licenses to WordRake, a legal editing and proofreading add-in for Microsoft Word and Outlook designed for lawyers and other legal professionals.
Suffolk is the first law school to provide its students with WordRake. Some 360 incoming…
Ivy B. Grey, a well-known legal technology entrepreneur and blogger, has joined legal-editing software company WordRake as director of business strategy, the company is announcing today. Grey will be responsible for helping to accelerate WordRake’s growth and further develop the software.
A practicing lawyer until last week, Grey has worked since 2015 with another…
The jury of popular opinion is divided on the writing style of the newest justice on the Supreme Court. Slate pronounced Neil M. Gorsuch a terrible writer. But a forthcoming quantitative study of his published opinions concludes that he “does exceedingly well according to the standards of good writing that legal writing authorities…
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