Other the the obvious ones (trail and compliant) what are some other common typos to ctrl+f for when proofing a brief?

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Posting as :
works at
You are currently posting as works at

Public and pubic

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Judgement v judgment

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If it involves an LLC, manger instead of manager.

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United vs untied

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Statue vs statute.

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Designated/designed

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Form vs. from

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Omitted words are tougher to proof…

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Using the “read aloud” function in Word can help with this. You’ll usually hear the mistake even if your eyes are glossing over it or your mind is reading in a word that’s not there.

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Prescribe vs. Proscribe, insure vs. Ensure

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Tit vs it

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Sand

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Spend $70 on the PerfectIt plugin and let it catch more of those issues in five minutes than you would in an hour

I had it at my last firm; haven't asked about it at my current firm but I can't see what the issue would be.

Google it without a space between the words and you'll find it. Also go to the intelligent editing website.

Some examples of what it does: tells you if you've used a term earlier in a document than where you defined it; adds hard spaces between all section symbols and what follows them; shows you if you've capitalized a term inconsistently.

Save me so much time writing briefs that it was worth every penny.

Parties’ names. Also Brief Catch is decent at identifying these if your firm will pay for it.

Send to doc service for proof reading?

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