What if it's confidential?

Naturally. With an electronic document there is no paper to lose, open in error, or fail to shred. We can arrange encryption. But do not relax; the safest course is, before you send it to us, take out anything which might identify the source. Erase or change names, dates, places and amounts in the draft. With a word processor, use the "Find and Replace" (or similar) of your word processor, and do not overlook any appearance of a name or place.

If you simply delete names without replacing them, the look of the line alters, and the meaning may become ambiguous. You will also have a job keying them in again; you might miss one. It is better to replace them with something. I suggest you use other or fictitious names and places (we will supply a list of names if you can't think of any) and use letters or numbers, AAAAA or 000000, for dates and amounts. Keep a decoding list, so that with the "Find and Replace" again you can put the real names, dates, places and amounts back in the redraft.

Whether you change these identifying details or not, we will treat your whole document as secret. It is more than our reputation is worth to let anyone suspect otherwise. We promise not to communicate your document to anyone else, nor any part of it, not even a short extract, not even a part we have written or redrafted, unless you have first agreed in writing. If we do quote from any submitted draft it is after the client has given permission.