I write a lot and like many other writers, the more sets of eyes you can have on your work the better. As long as those eyes are fast and you can meet all your deadlines, an extra edit is great. This is where electronic editing comes in very handy. We've all used it — whether it's spelling and grammar checks in Google docs, Word, or whatever you like to use.

Lawyers are presented with unique writing challenges. Aside from having the same urgent time pressures, a lot of legal writing is different in that it can be technical and you might have either a broad or a very narrow audience. So as someone who writes for both a general and a legal audience, I decided to test one of the most popular editing tools out there — Grammarly.

Grammarly has certain features that come for free, but having used only the free features for a couple of hours I can assure you that they won't cut it for a lawyer. You're going to want to invest in the paid version, which costs around $140 per year on an annual subscription. I'm happy to share that on that first day I was about to upgrade to the annual premium but got sidetracked and didn't. The next day when I went to sign up, there was a special offer for me for half off the annual fee. I grabbed it and was off to the races.