WordRake

WordRake is a Seattle-based company that produces editing software of the same name. Gary Kinder — lawyer, New York Times best selling author, and legal-writing expert — founded WordRake in 2012.

The WordRake software is intended to improve the brevity and clarity of writing. It is an automated editing program designed especially for lawyers and legal writing. In January 2013, the City of Seattle announced that it had installed WordRake for use in several municipal departments.[1]

Reviews of WordRake have been generally positive while acknowledging the software’s limitations.[2][3][4][5] The program works as an extension to Microsoft Word and, like automated spelling and grammar checking, WordRake can be prone to false positives.

The second version, WordRake 2, was released in summer 2014.

References

  1. ↑ Taylor Soper. "Spellcheck on steroids: City of Seattle implementing WordRake editing software". GeekWire. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Kenneth Adams. "Would Contract Drafters Benefit from Using WordRake?". Adams on Contract Drafting. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Andrew Cabasso. "Wordrake Review – Helping Lawyers Simplify Legal Writing". JurisPage. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Robert Ambrogi. "The WordRake Editing Program Takes on Scalia, Kagan and El Pollo Loco". LawSites. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Carol Gerber. "WordRake: Clearing the Clutter from Legal Writing". Attorney at Work. Retrieved 21 July 2014.