For legal practices
Seventeen registers. One firm's voice.
The engagement letter that should sound like the firm. The client update a non-lawyer has to follow. The demand letter that must be firm without being intemperate. Three registers, three people writing them, and a client who can tell.
Highlight the paragraph. Pick the register. It comes back in place, in seconds, and the carve-out is exactly where you left it.
Rough in. Ready to send. Nothing you’d answer for changed.
Every rewrite is checked before you see it. If a figure moved or a qualifier changed, it’s rewritten again, so the version that slipped never reaches you. Whatever the practice area. Pick one, run it, and watch what survives. Faint marks are what was rewritten; the solid mark is what had to survive.
Your notes in. The letter out.
As written
Letter to opp counsel: no response to our 14 Mar letter - looks deliberate, a delay tactic. Strongly suggest their client reconsiders before we escalate. We will escalate if needed.
Runs on this page. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Where the hours actually go
Not in the drafting. In the tidying afterwards: the engagement letter that needs to sound like the firm rather than like the associate who wrote it, the client update that has to be readable by somebody who is not a lawyer, the demand letter that wants to be firm without being intemperate.
That work is real and nobody bills it happily. It is also the work a rewrite tool is genuinely good at — provided it can be trusted near a document where a single word carries consequences.
Which is the whole problem with general-purpose tools. They are built to improve writing, and in a legal document much of what looks like bad writing is load-bearing: the repetition is belt-and-braces, the hedge is a negotiated position, the long sentence is one idea that must not become two that can be read apart.
What it is not allowed to change
Every hedge you put there
"We believe", "it appears", "not determinative", "may still". Harden one of those in a client letter and you have made a representation the file does not support.
Alleged, and words like it
Alleged stays alleged. Without prejudice stays. Subject to contract stays. These are not throat-clearing.
Figures, dates and periods
Fourteen (14) days stays fourteen (14) days, numeral and word both. $200,000 does not become "around $200,000".
Carve-outs and provisos
The "except", the "provided, however", the "to the extent" — usually the sentence somebody argued about for an hour.
Defined terms and party names
A capitalised term is a defined term, not a synonym opportunity. Supplier does not become the supplier.
Shall, may, must, will
Obligation, permission and futurity are three different things, whatever a plain-English guide says.
Four things it will not do
Worth knowing before you spend anything, rather than after.
It does not give legal advice
It rewrites what you wrote. It has no view on whether you should have written it, and it will not tell you whether a clause is enforceable in your jurisdiction.
It does not check citations
It will not verify a case reference, a statute number or a docket. If you highlight a wrong citation, it will return a tidier wrong citation.
It does not know your precedents
It has not read your firm’s bank of agreements and does not know your house style for a warranty schedule. It works sentence by sentence, on what is in front of it.
It is not a substitute for reading
Everything it returns still has to be read by the person whose name goes on the advice. It removes the polishing, not the responsibility.
Where it runs
Inside the document you already have open. Highlight a clause in Word, an email in Outlook, or a note in your case management system, and the rewrite comes back in place. There is no separate application to paste into and no second copy of the document to keep track of.
One workspace for the firm, seats you can add and remove, and the same modes for everybody — so a paralegal’s draft and a partner’s letter come out sounding like the same firm wrote them.
Guides for legal writing
Free, practical articles on writing documents that get read carefully later.
Put it in front of your own work
Seat-based, monthly or annual, and you can set it up yourself — one workspace for the firm, seats added and removed as people join and leave. Firms over fifty seats we handle directly.
Where your text goes, and what each provider keeps, is set out in the privacy policy.