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I thought lawyers were notorious for hanging on to WordPerfect for years after most everyone else had moved to Microsoft Word. If Word is now the de-facto legal
by throwawayboise 5y ago
I thought lawyers were notorious for hanging on to WordPerfect for years after most everyone else had moved to Microsoft Word. If Word is now the de-facto legal document format, I guess that shows that accepted formats can change.
Plain text does seem to me to be the near-ideal format for legal documents, as it's most likely to be readable for the longest time. I can still easily read plain-text documents created 30 years ago. I can't say the same for WordStar, Wordperfect, or other long-forgotten word processing formats.
- staticautomatic 5y agoYeah but even that era is over now. The last time I saw a lawyer using Word Perfect it was a DOJ office maybe 8-10 years ago.
- Terretta 5y agoLawyers needed six kinds of change markup, Word had one. Word added those, and more, lawyers switched. Further, they had document management systems that were WP savvy, are notoriously loathe to upgrade systems that are working, however badly. Any money spent on systems doesn't get distributed to the Partners. It's a very direct incentive.