In-House Legal Departments Editing and Proofreading Services

In-house counsel write for people who did not go to law school and do not want a memorandum. A sales director needs to know whether they can sign; a board needs the risk in a paragraph, not a survey of the authorities. The skill that distinguishes an effective legal department is translation — and translation is a writing problem before it is a legal one.

We edit board and executive memoranda, legal risk summaries, policies and codes of conduct, contract playbooks and templates, compliance training materials, delegation-of-authority documents, litigation status reports, regulatory correspondence, and internal guidance notes. Our editors cut the hedging that creeps into legal writing, put the recommendation where a busy reader will find it, and keep terminology consistent across documents drafted by different lawyers over several years.

Templates and playbooks repay editing more than anything else in the department. A clause you have written once and reused four hundred times carries any ambiguity into every one of those contracts — fixing it centrally is the highest-leverage work available to you.

Everything is treated as privileged and confidential. We do not assess legal risk; we make sure the business reader takes away exactly the conclusion you intended.