The Advisory Committee on Rules on Appellate Procedure last year approved a proposal limiting federal appellate briefs to 13,000 words, around 52 pages, with the intent of reducing already-strained workloads for appellate court judges. Previously, litigants were allowed 14,000 words.

In response, WordRake has released a set of updates to its text editing tool, WordRake 3, ahead of the scheduled December 1 implementation date of a rule limiting the word counts of federal appellate briefs.