15/07/2023
Perry Mason, the iconic fictional attorney, was often portrayed as using a typewriter in various adaptations of the character. In the original novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, which served as the basis for the popular TV series and movies, Perry Mason was frequently depicted working on a typewriter to draft legal documents, correspondences, and other written materials.
In the TV series that aired from 1957 to 1966, Perry Mason, played by Raymond Burr, was commonly seen using a typewriter in his office or courtroom scenes. The clacking sound of the typewriter keys became an auditory symbol of Mason's relentless pursuit of justice.
Are you old enough to have worked in the "typewriter era"? I did not have the opportunity to use computers for word processing until I was in college. I went to Truman State with a Brother typewriter, and was so impressed that it had a little screen with a line of text to correct errors before it was typed. So I was in the Gen-X age-group who transitioned to computers on the job.
Like typing....redacting documents used to be a painstaking process. We would huddle over stacks of papers, armed with black markers, paper, scissors and tape. The room would be filled with the sound of scissor snips and the occasional exasperated sigh as we realized we had accidentally revealed a word or two.
We were the masters of the "snip and stick" technique, carefully cutting out sections and delicately pasting over them, hoping our handiwork would withstand scrutiny.
At some point someone in the office would learn Adobe and we would manually black out items on our documents line by line. There was and still is no "search and redact" feature on Adobe. That painstaking method of manual redaction in Adobe will be as nostalgic as the typewriter soon.
Redact Pro relies on artificial intelligence to help us search and automatically redact confidential information that we cannot publicly file in legal documents. While an attorney must always check the document, Redact Pro gives a head start in streamlining redaction unlike we've ever seen in history. It may be the very first piece of software in your Law Firm that relies on artificial intelligence.
Perry Mason once said. "The only thing that counts is what the evidence shows." So give Redact Pro a try while it's free and see if it's the most efficient way you've ever redacted in your career. Have a great weekend!
-Michelle, CoFounder of the Hive
