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Lawyers also have clients! Its sounds facetious even saying it but it’s also not that surprising to discover that an industry heavily reliant of word processing
by andylynch 5y ago
Lawyers also have clients! Its sounds facetious even saying it but it’s also not that surprising to discover that an industry heavily reliant of word processing uses the market leading word processor.
- upofadown 5y agoBut that is my point. They don't do much of any word processing from the era of Microsoft Word. They just process some text. What does Word give them that, say, a Wiki would not do faster and easier? Emailing word processing files around strikes me as very last century.
- anotherman554 5y agoTrial lawyers need to format their legal documents to a specific set of guidelines and file them with the court. That isn't what a wiki is for.
- upofadown 5y agoWiki is marked up text. So it would be translated into a document guaranteed to meet those guidelines with no extra effort. That is exactly what a wiki is for.
- anotherman554 5y agoA template in Microsft Word already has the formatting without extra effort. Word is pretty cheap, especially for a successful law firm. Why would anyone switch?
- pseingatl 5y agoNot really. Most lawyers never use Styles. This means ToC's are a disaster. Autonumbering not required extra effort? Try to add an item to a parent list when there are no empty lines and you are in a sub-sublist. (i.e., you're at (i) and you need to add a 4 to your 1,2,3,4 and skip the intermediate a, b, c. Good luck.
- selfhoster11 5y agoA wiki is hard to mail around and archive offline.