The Microsoft Word Add-in for Lawyers.
Delegate tedious legal proofreading to the American Legal Style Plug-In for Microsoft Word.
Shawn Wanta, Partner, Baillon Thome Jozwiak & Wanta
“PerfectIt gives me peace of mind because it finds more than any lawyer can with a manual review.”
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“PerfectIt can help a lawyer focus on editing for substance and meaning. It’s difficult to edit your own documents – take all the help you can get!”
Jonathan R. Tung, Technologist: The FindLaw Technology Blog
“One of the best investments you can make at your firm.”
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The American Bar Association Reviewed PerfectIt™:
"PerfectIt’s American Legal Style programmed thousands of common errors and hard-to-remember rules [including those] based upon The Bluebook, Black’s Law Dictionary, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style and The Elements of Style."
PerfectIt™ Finds and Helps Correct Inconsistencies in Legal Writing.
PerfectIt’s legal checking was designed by lawyers for lawyers. It includes 13,000 legal-specific checks that only lawyers and trained legal editors would know to look for. No matter what kind of legal document you are working on, PerfectIt will save time and ensure your text is the best it can be.
The American Legal Style Helps Automate Otherwise Tedious Legal Citations.
Checking that citations meet Bluebook requirements for punctuation and spacing, accuracy of court and reporter names, and case name abbreviations is tedious. An incorrect citation can even lead you to the wrong authority. PerfectIt helps by finding errors and uniformly applying Bluebook rules throughout your document.
Add the American Legal Style to Your MS Word
The Most Common Legal Writing Errors are Programmed In.
Lawyers use words differently. So built-in spelling- and grammar-checkers don’t catch most legal mistakes—and they can even introduce errors. PerfectIt can help. To create PerfectIt’s legal checking, we conducted numerous page-by-page reviews of the leading legal style guides and dictionaries, and programmed in the most common errors. We also used real-world law practice experience to anticipate mistakes and recommend corrections.
It's a Legal Style Guide for Your Microsoft Word.
Modern legal writing style dictates that legal documents should be clear, uncomplicated, and consistent. Leading style guides, such as The Red Book, the Elements of Style, and Bluebook, give us the rules. But they’re tough to apply under tight deadlines. PerfectIt pulls together leading guidance on legal writing so lawyers and staff can quickly apply the rules, style, guidelines, and writing techniques expected of them.
Because Your Words Have Consequences.
Inconsistencies introduce risk and invite disputes. But keeping track of tiny details scattered throughout a long document is nearly impossible. PerfectIt can help. PerfectIt excels in the consistency checking category. It is the only program for lawyers that allows you to check internal consistency based on actual use and enforce external style rules.
It Finds Errors with Spelling & Hyphenation of Terms of Art.
Terms of art are tough to get right. It’s easy to transpose letters, make mistakes about hyphens, or otherwise mangle legal words and phrases. Most mistakes simply make the drafter seem careless, but some mistakes can change meaning. Lawyers don’t have time to consult Black’s Law Dictionary for every word. PerfectIt helps to find and correct the most common errors.
It Finds Errors with Defined Terms & Capitalization.
Defined terms set the factual stage for, and give practical meaning to, legal documents. And inconsistent capitalization of defined terms can lead to confusion and introduce risk. These errors are tough to spot in long documents. PerfectIt helps ensure consistency by showing you every instance of each defined term in context—and letting you decide what’s right.
Automate Bluebook, Redbook, Black's Law, and more
Joshua D. Spitalnik, Partner, The Law Office of Joshua D. Spitalnik, P.C.
“PerfectIt has been a fantastic tool to make sure my writing is consistent and well-edited (saving me time and energy).”
Giugi Carminati, Partner, Carminati Law
“PerfectIt has been instrumental in allowing me to be highly productive while delivering top quality work.”
Read Full ReviewMegan E. Boyd, Lady (Legal) Writer
“PerfectIt’s functions far exceed those available through Word's generic spelling and grammar checker.”
Read Full ReviewRichard C. Belthoff Jr., LitigationWorld
“Both litigators and transactional lawyers will find PerfectIt useful.”
Read Full ReviewRobert Ambrogi, LawSites
“I may never again send out a document without first running PerfectIt.”
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“PerfectIt 4 is blazingly fast, and the longer and more complex your documents are, the more you'll appreciate the new speed.”
Read Full ReviewScott Bassett, Michigan Virtual Law Practice
“Designed for legal writing and does a great job of finding inconsistencies in word usage, format, and style that Word’s built-in functions miss.”
Read Full ReviewBrian S. Sokoloff, Partner, Sokoloff Stern LLP
“PerfectIt helps me put the finishing touches on our briefs.”
Shawn Wanta, Partner, Baillon Thome Jozwiak & Wanta
“PerfectIt gives me peace of mind because it finds more than any lawyer can with a manual review.”
Read Full ReviewNick Critelli, Barrister and Attorney at Law, CritelliLaw
“PerfectIt scours documents like a professional legal secretary and finds technical punctuation and legal style issues.”
Read Full ReviewRebecca Phalen, Legal researcher. Legal writer. Attorney-at-law.
“It’s a quick and easy tool to use. PerfectIt saves me time, saves my clients money, and results in a better brief.”
Read Full ReviewPhilip Thomas, Mississippi Litigation Review and Commentary
“PerfectIt is great for identifying inconsistencies that jump off the page at some readers.”
Read Full ReviewPhilip Thomas, MS Litigation Review and Commentary
“PerfectIt reduces proofreading time for the drafter. It was programmed by lawyers and knows the Bluebook.”
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