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This. It doesn't make much sense for a $400/hr attorney to play around with scripts and such or otherwise do much of anything with document production (that is
by pnw_hazor 7y ago
This.
It doesn't make much sense for a $400/hr attorney to play around with scripts and such or otherwise do much of anything with document production (that is what staff is for).
If an attorney knows coding from a previous career, it can be helpful in a few cases, but for a non-technical attorney to try to pick up enough coding to do anything useful is a stretch.
- RichEO 7y agoIt may be the case that some vendor somewhere can provide a tool to do this, but they will charge quite a bit more than $400 and it will take more than an hour to find them. A shell script to achieve your ends could be endlessly helpful here.
- pnw_hazor 7y agoHaving the depth of knowledge to recognize when a simple shell script would be helpful is the harder part. It is one thing to teach a non-techie lawyer how to "hello world" But getting them to understand file system attributes, permission schemes, file I/O, regular expressions, and so on, is where "learn to code" falls apart in this context. Just getting a non-technical person to learn how to navigate in Powershell is a near impossibility.