There is a 7 day free trial at So let me get right to the point, spend a little time with WordRake it may be the best $199 (Word and Outlook for 1 year) that you spend this year. Alas, it doesn’t work on a Mac or I would be using it to help tighten this column. WordRake works in Windows and with MS Word and Outlook. If nothing else, you can improve your writing by subscribing to Gary Kinder’s Wednesday Writing Tips. It allows you to write clearly, be understood and make things happen with your written communications. WordRake will take your writing and suggest edits to remove unnecessary words, improve phrasing, improve your grammar and make dull sentences sparkle. As Gary Kinder, the developer states, the secret to writing well is rewriting. WordRake also helps simplify complex language to meet plain language.

Designed for legal professionals, it helps you quickly replace legalese, reduce wordiness, correct mistakes, and clarify meaning. Other than hiring an editor to go over your work, we are pretty much on our own to do our own editing and proofreading. WordRake software edits for brevity and simplicity in Microsoft Word and Outlook, and its suggestions appear in the familiar track-changes style. Contracts, pleadings, documents, memorandums – even blog posts – our ideas are as clear as the words, grammar, syntax and tone that we use to communicate our thoughts. WordRake is editing software for lawyers. The kickoff column in this series deals with WordRake. This column starts what I hope will be a series of columns on new and innovative technologies for lawyers. Music and lyrics by: Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, from Sweet Charity. Say wouldn’t you like to know whats going on in my mind?

Wordrake software