Dr. Redact for Legal

Produce documents, not privilege waivers

Discovery productions, court filings, and client file transfers all require redaction that actually holds up. A black rectangle drawn over text — the kind that copy-paste defeats — has embarrassed more than one firm in the news.

The rules you answer to

Model Rule 1.6

Confidentiality of client information

FRCP 5.2

Redaction requirements for federal court filings

State privacy laws

CCPA and state analogues govern client PII

A real-world example

Exhibit set for a public court filing

Financial exhibits filed publicly with personal identifiers removed per FRCP 5.2 — verified before filing.

Automatically detected & permanently removed

  • SSNs (full and last-4)
  • Financial account numbers
  • Names of minors
  • Home addresses
  • Dates of birth

How legal teams use Dr. Redact

Discovery productions

Producing a responsive set means removing third-party PII from hundreds of pages without making the production unusable. The engine flags SSNs, account numbers, minors' names, and addresses page by page; your reviewer rules on each; and the output stays fully searchable — opposing counsel gets working documents, not image scans.

FRCP 5.2 court filings

The federal rule names the identifiers that cannot appear in a public filing: Social Security numbers, birth dates, minors' names, financial account numbers. Those map directly onto detection categories, so the pre-filing pass becomes a checklist you approve rather than a read-through you hope was careful enough.

Client file transfers and subpoena responses

When a matter closes or a subpoena demands (non-privileged) records, the file leaving the firm carries other clients' and third parties' information in the margins. A redaction pass with a per-job audit certificate gives you something to point to when anyone later asks how the transfer was handled.

Common questions from legal

Will the redactions survive a copy-paste test?

Yes — that test is the whole point. Approved regions are destructively removed and the page re-rendered, so select-all-copy finds nothing. We publish benchmark results rather than adjectives; the full 645-item scorecard is on our blog.

Can a paralegal or litigation-support vendor run client jobs through it?

Yes. Service providers run each client's documents as separate jobs, every job produces its own audit certificate, and the human-review step keeps the professional's judgment in the loop — the tool proposes, you decide.

Does the redacted output stay text-searchable?

Yes. Unlike print-and-rescan workflows, the output remains a real text document — production sets, exhibits, and transferred files keep working with search and review tools.

Recommended: Business $49/mo

250 pages/month fits routine motion practice and client file production, with 45-day retention spanning a typical filing cycle.

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