On Wednesday, January 28, 2026, WordRake Holdings, LLC, the creator of WordRake legal editing software, released WordRake version 5.3. In the first update of the year, the team at WordRake tackled some of the hardest problems that plague legal writing.
“Most judges, partners, and other sophisticated readers complain about nominalizations, wordiness, and passive voice bogging down writing. Version 5.3 directly addresses those concerns with the most powerful and precise edits I’ve seen anywhere,” said Scott Johns, CEO of WordRake. “We’ve leveraged our technical skill and subject matter expertise to deliver a new standard in what’s possible.”
These edits are possible due to technical upgrades introduced in WordRake versions 5.1 and 5.2,which allow the software to treat long noun phrases as complete units and to better recognize legal-specific people and entities. With this specialized context, WordRake’s algorithms can now re-arrange passive constructions based on explicit or hidden actors and also re-write complex nominalizations to put the most important information into the main verb. These two categories of edits help translate clumsy sentences into the active voice.
Beyond rewriting sentences into the active voice, WordRake 5.3 features new edits to replace weak intensifier + adjective combinations with stronger adjectives, expanded edits to professionalize or trim text commonly found in emails, and more edits to reduce wordiness, such as deleting unnecessary meta-discourse and throat-clearing phrases. New algorithms also allow the software to incorporate multiple edits at a time so users get more significant changes.
“The theme of this release is complexity. WordRake’s newest edits convert passive sentences to active sentences and recognize even very elaborate subjects and objects, including noun phrases with punctuation and proper nouns that include name particles like von and de,” said Danielle Cosimo, WordRake’s applied linguistics engineer. “Innovative edits focus on movement to improve your sentence by placing the subject and verb together,” she continued.
Examples of New Edits Available
WordRake 5.3features many new and improved edits in both Brevity and Simplicity mode. Here are some examples:
It is not our opinion that We do not believe the Separation of Powers doctrine or the prohibition against dual-office holding absolutely forbids the formation of inter-branch committees.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Thank you for all of your hard work on this project.
In the event that the If the claims are amended, it is likely that the parties will have the parties will likely have to "re-do" infringement and invalidity contentions, discovery, claim construction briefing, the claim construction hearing as well as hearing and dispositive motions in order to properly reflect the amended claims
The securities laws require public companies and their executives to make truthful disclosures of truthfully disclose material information about a company's financial condition.
As we have often observed, probable Probable cause is the sum total of layers of information and the combination of information and the synthesis of what the police have heard, what they know, and what they observe as trained officers.
Had Rothschild done a proper investigation of properly investigated the Jones motor home, he would have ascertained determined that there was, in fact, heat, water, electricity, and food.
In furtherance of To further this specific contention, Plaintiff incorrectly relies on irrelevant affidavit testimony from Mr. Mann and Mr. Smith, who both aver claim that unidentified members of ABC's "management" afforded them an opportunity to allowed them to correct their Driver's Daily Logs and assisted them in doing so.
It has been established that where Where a case is a close one on the facts and the jury might have decided either way, any substantive error that might have tipped the scales in favor of for the successful party calls for reversal.
Mr. Grave, the Chief Financial Officer, could provide no explanation for could not explain this discrepancy.
The decision has been reversed by the supreme court. The supreme court has reversed the decision.
The verdict has been delivered by the jury. The jury has delivered the verdict.
It was withheld by the court that The court held that, on the detention order being proved or admitted, the onus burden was on the appellant to prove that the order was invalid.
This was deemed by the tribunal to be The tribunal deemed this to be a case of the application of the doctrine of ultra vires, rendering the impugned act void ab intio void as if it never happened.
Failure to make timely payment pay promptly is not a mere technical breach of a covenant but, rather, foes to the heart of the argument between the obligor and the obligee.
And if ABCDCorp's solution is to divide this case into 5 lawsuits, then this burden issue would only be compounded because non-party witnesses would potentially might be forced to provide testimony multiple times testify multiple times in multiple proceedings.
The merger agreement must be officially approved by the shareholders before The shareholders must officially approve the merger agreement before the acquisition process can proceed move forward.
Absent a Without a very strong reason compelling reason to disturb the jury's verdict, the judgment must stand.
I cannot say with any certainty, but Perhaps the argument is not consistent with contradicts established precedent.
A rational basis test may be applied. The court may apply a rational basis test.
It is under the doctrine of collateral estoppel that Under the doctrine of collateral estoppel, an issue fully litigated in a prior action in an earlier action cannot be contested again.
It is under the doctrine of stare decisis that, Under the doctrine of stare decisis, lower courts must adhere to established precedent.
Under the doctrine of collateral estoppel, the defendant could not relitigate the issue or present The doctrine of collateral estoppel prevented the defendant from relitigating the issue or presenting new evidence.
As demonstrated below ABC lacks the minimum contacts with Massachusetts necessary to subject it to the jurisdiction of this court to this Court's jurisdiction.
The question of whether Whether DrillCo is advantaged relative to international oil companies because of its low production cost depends on the shape and timing of climate policy.
Adequate relief in a monopolization case should put an end to should end the combination and deprive the defendants of any of the benefits of the illegal conduct, and should also break up or render impotent weaken the monopoly power found to be in violation of violate the Act.
This report provided a comprehensive analysis of support to these analyzed the new tax proposal.
The new system makes an improvement to improves the production process.
"Different diagnosis" describes the process of isolating the cause of a patient's symptoms through the systematic elimination of by systematically eliminating all potential causes.
Dice and card games are recognized by the committee as The committee recognizes dice and card games as forms of gambling
The court criticized the agency for a very slow response sluggish response to public safety concerns.
The bottom line is I feel very good about great about the quarter and the way we closed the year, and you should as well. too.
It looks very bad terrible and clearly these guys were not exercising the best judgment in saying such things from abroad.
How to Get WordRake 5.3
Current WordRake customers with version 3.85 or later may upgrade to version 5.3 by checking for updates from the Help menu within the app, and all WordRake users may download the update from these links:
WordRake for Word on Mac: https://www.wordrake.com/update-word-mac
WordRake for Word on Windows: https://www.wordrake.com/update-word-pc
WordRake for Outlook on Windows: https://www.wordrake.com/update-outlook-pc
If you're interested in trying WordRake, you may download a 7-day free trial here—even if you've tried an earlier version of WordRake.
About WordRake
Launched in 2012, WordRake is editing software designed by writing expert and New York Times bestselling author Gary Kinder. The software was originally created so lawyers could focus on their legal analysis without using unnecessary verbiage. It has since ben expanded to work for all types of professional writing. While teaching over 1,000 writing programs for many of the country's largest businesses and law firms, Kinder identified a set of signals that show wordiness and muddled writing. Those signals became the foundation of WordRake editing software. WordRake now offers editing suggestions to improve clarity, brevity, and simplicity, which helps writers meet plain language requirements. WordRake runs in Microsoft Word and Outlook and uses complex, patented algorithms to find and improve weak lead-ins, confusing language, and high-level grammar and usage slips. A free 7-day trial is available at www.wordrake.com.
