How Lawyers Use WordRake and PerfectIt Together

Editing software goes beyond grammar and provides line- or sentence-level editing and copyediting, with a focus on cutting words and simplifying phrases. Originally created for lawyers, WordRake streamlines legalese and converts writing to plain English. WordRake is available for Word and Outlook.
Software provides proofreading, style guide compliance, and consistency checking for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, acronyms, and abbreviations. For legal-specific style guidance, try American Legal Style for PerfectIt. PerfectIt is available for Word and PowerPoint.
If you’re looking for in-depth editing, consistency-checking, Bluebook citation formatting, and customization options, then using WordRake and PerfectIt together will deliver great results at an excellent price. (You can even combine the two programs under one tab to create a super-editor ribbon!)
Complementary programs with little overlap
Expert knowledge applied to your workflow
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Principal, Procertas
“PerfectIt catches your typos, inconsistencies, and formatting mistakes. WordRake helps you refine your prose and sharpen your message. Both work well on their own. But they are particularly powerful together.”
Chief Strategy & Growth Officer, WordRake
“WordRake and PerfectIt work great together. I use WordRake as my first pass before I begin editing and PerfectIt as my final check to make sure I’ve caught all the details. It gives me confidence and protects my reputation as a writer.”
As an academic editor, I help authors to prepare science, engineering, and medical articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The combination of WordRake and PerfectIt is a powerful tool to streamline this process.
WordRake suggests ways to tighten writing. It identifies filler words that don’t add meaning to sentences or could be replaced with simpler selections (such as changing “irrespective of” to “despite” or “regardless of whether or not” to “even if”). WordRake also highlights phrases that can be rewritten to be more direct, like changing “for the treatment of patients” to “to treat patients” or “controls without any abnormalities” to “controls with no abnormalities”. By highlighting unnecessary wordiness and passive voice, WordRake makes writing more efficient and understandable.
After running WordRake to hone the language of a paper, I use PerfectIt to check for formatting style. This software lets users select an existing style or specify their own. The automated checks for consistency in abbreviations, comma usage, and the formatting of headings and tables are invaluable. I especially appreciate the ability to check that spelling conforms with either US or UK English.
Together, WordRake and PerfectIt fine-tune the word selection, phrasing, and formatting of documents to ensure that the contents are concise and professional.
Trina Siebert, Academic Editor and WordRake Language Usage Analyst
I work as a translator and editor for non-native English speakers applying to degree programs in the United States and the UK. My clients must complete long and complex application processes in a language that is not their own.
Often, there are many people involved in an application who are not trained editors. This outside help leads to inconsistencies and confusion. This is where PerfectIt comes in: the software is great at detecting and correcting acronyms defined twice, inconsistent capitalization, inconsistent spelling, and unfinished parentheses.
When I work with my clients, I rely on WordRake to improve tone, correct overly informal language, and smooth wordy constructions translated too literally from their first language. WordRake catches these unnecessary expressions, figures of speech, and wordy constructions and either removes them or replaces them with something clearer. I like to give WordRake some of the credit for cleaning up my clients’ writing, because the software often makes better edits to sentences I changed or added during the first round of the editing process!
My clients need to wow professors, reviewers, and admissions boards with writing that is powerful, efficient, and memorable. WordRake and PerfectIt polish my edits to my clients’ work and make me and my clients more confident!
Danielle Cosimo, Translator and WordRake Language Usage Analyst
WordRake offers over 50,000 editing algorithms to improve clarity and brevity using the familiar track-changes style. In one click, WordRake detects jargon and legalese, unnecessary modifiers, pointless introductions, nominalizations, redundancies, cliches, usage errors, and more. It stands out for the depth, breadth, and accuracy of the edits it offers for legal, business, and government writers. WordRake respects legally operative phrases and key legal content and helps convert your writing to plain English. If you work under tight deadlines, with word or page limits, with complex or confidential information, or with government organizations, then WordRake works for you.
Even if you've tried WordRake before, you can try it again. See how WordRake has improved with version 5.1!
With version 5.1, WordRake dramatically improves its performance on litigation filings, agency letters, financial reports, policy memos, proposals, contracts, and other complex documents. The upgrade includes expanded semantic mapping and enhanced recognition of legal and government-specific language. WordRake now better identifies terms of art, doctrines, procedural rules, statutes, case names, and official titles. It also recognizes the names of courts, agencies, judges, and public officials across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and beyond. The software’s understanding of these complex (and often long) names, titles, and terms improves contextual awareness and makes WordRake’s feedback more relevant and accurate.
WordRake 5.1 features many new and improved edits in both Brevity and Simplicity mode. Here are some examples:
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Thus, in consideration of the mutual obligations and representations set forth of the promises by the parties, the Builder will provide all the materials and perform all the work for this contract.
Thus, regardless of no matter the procedure employed used by the trial court on remand, it simply does not have statutory authority to impose a sentence above the standard range.
We conclude, therefore, that Therefore, the search warrant should not have been issued because the affidavit did not provide a sufficient strong enough basis for a finding of probable cause.
Accordingly, defendant’s Defendant’s contention argument that the experts do not have a sufficient strong enough basis upon on which to render an opinion is meritless.
Accordingly, XYZ could not possibly have suffered harm as a result because of the amount of royalties charged to those people who actually bought licenses, or as a result because of that royalty being somehow “discriminatory.”
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