I'm thinking about writing a book: LaTeX for Lawyers
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Date: March 8th, 2015 4:01 AM Author: Alcoholic big chapel
LaTeX is a high-quality document preparation system, and the de facto typesetting standard for scientific publications. http://www.latextemplates.com/cat/articles shows some example templates for general articles, but the same can be done for legal documents.
My book would explain to lawyers how to properly typeset different types of legal documents, including court filings, contracts, wills, letters of engagement, and invoices. It'd also teach lawyers how to use the freely-available tools to collaborate with colleagues and clients in the preparation of documents.
Does this sound interesting to anyone?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451045) |
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Date: March 8th, 2015 4:13 AM Author: bright shivering step-uncle's house legal warrant
if u can make a bullet-proof implementation, i'm sure it'd be marketable
lawyers hate dealing with TOCs and all that stuff, and the rendering on TeX is simply beautiful
i have only ever met two lawyers IRL who were aware of TeX, and they both commented immediately during my interviews on it (my resume was rendered in LaTeX)
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451068) |
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Date: March 8th, 2015 4:20 AM Author: aphrodisiac slate windowlicker
hot docs is shitty 90's software that's on version 20 or something, but as far as i know it's the standard for small firm document generation. WealthCounsel's stuff is based on it, for example.
contractual.ly is interesting but it looks like, after launching as a document generation startup aimed at lawyers, they are now focused on contracts for procurement depts.
i've been posting for a couple years now that there should be semantic markup for contracts and a contract-specific text editor that isn't Word.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451085) |
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Date: March 8th, 2015 4:19 AM Author: bright shivering step-uncle's house legal warrant
those appear to be geared for mass-producing form Ks and wills by swapping dates, names, etc. as variables within the docs
the OP's proposal overlaps a bit with this but appears to be targeted toward typesetting which is more of a formatting issue
but because TeX is so customizable (and resembles computer code, iirc) it would probably be easy to grab the data and have google pull all ur published case cites etc. or to otherwise parse it and do useful things with it
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451078) |
Date: March 8th, 2015 4:26 AM Author: bright shivering step-uncle's house legal warrant
u could also include pre-packaged clauses
i have no idea if this is actually useful from a corporate lawyer perspective but it would be kinda cool to have libraries of indemnity clauses or wutever and just insert them
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451095) |
Date: March 8th, 2015 4:28 AM Author: histrionic giraffe
better idea: developing custom, optical character recognition software for extracting information from patents, patent file histories, etc. and creating a searchable database that is searchable using a huge number of potential attributes. you could interface with Microsoft Word to automatically generate infringement or invalidity charts.
you could do something similar with discovery responses: feed a template into your customized OCR software, then feed it the incoming discovery request and use something like a neural net to generate a rough draft of the responses (which are always canned and essentially the same for every client/partner pairing)
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451100) |
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Date: March 8th, 2015 4:31 AM Author: bright shivering step-uncle's house legal warrant
"you could do something similar with discovery responses: feed a template into your customized OCR software, then feed it the incoming discovery request and use something like a neural net to generate a rough draft of the responses (which are always canned and essentially the same for every client/partner pairing)"
welp there goes the biglaw business model
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451104)
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Date: March 8th, 2015 5:44 AM Author: bright shivering step-uncle's house legal warrant
but it's even better to maximize the number of hours and attorneys at all times
one time i did a doc production w/an outside vendor. i wanted the vendor to separate thousands of files depending on their filename pre-fix. the vendor finally finished after 14 hours. i later learned that the vendor had been DRAGGING AND DROPPING INDIVIDUAL FILES, one by one, for that entire time. even tho they could have just done a find ./ -name "prefix*" -exec mv (or whatever the reg expression would be).
nobody complained about the bill even tho it was ludicrous
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451223) |
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Date: March 8th, 2015 5:33 AM Author: bright shivering step-uncle's house legal warrant
any secretary/para/lawyer at a firm would have access to this stuff
but, it's almost all confidential WP and the system might complain if u were to pull it all at once
perhaps u could mine the data if u were brought in as an inhouse consultant
but keep in mind that most biglaw firms don't have efficient ways to search for their prior work product, leading to crazy situations: i.e. rather than digging out a memo that already was answered, there is every incentive to get some associate to re-research the issue and rewrite it from scratch
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451206) |
Date: March 8th, 2015 4:43 AM Author: aphrodisiac slate windowlicker
the big problem with everything ITT: this is all stuff that makes lawyers more efficient. as long as the billable hour is the standard, this is all shit that law firms do not want. this would make them lose money. programmers are always geared towards efficiency and ease of use. that's the exact opposite of what benefits lawyers.
the only place where efficient software is welcome is to handle non-billable stuff like firm management, and for contingency fee cases.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27451134) |
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Date: April 17th, 2015 7:53 PM Author: beady-eyed hissy fit tanning salon
Bro no solo is going to spend any time let alone money learning LaTeX macros and shit to automate a few mundane but not critical business tasks in a way that may look slightly better. Personally, I'd think it was weird and non-standard to see LaTeX-formatted business documents. I don't want a creative lawyer.
You're solving a problem they don't have. This is typical when tech doods or aspies think of how to apply technology to a business because they don't understand the pain points. Ask any solo what keeps them up at night or prevents them from scaling their business. It's all about getting clients in the door to spend $500 on real estate paperwork or handle some small insurance matter. The next biggest thing blocking scale is simply how much time it takes to correspond with clients, meetings, phone calls, etc. Physically typing and formatting documents is not the problem (yet).
Automate getting clients and replace their expensive secretary with Siri and you might get them to that point.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#27709992) |
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Date: September 19th, 2018 7:28 AM Author: Alcoholic big chapel
Currently, I've developed a pretty robust set of command line tools, which I actively use to draft legal documents and pleadings. After the initial consultation with a client, I run a program that generates the retainer agreement (with payment schedule) and initial pleadings, and creates the calendar entries for important deadlines. I just switched over to LawPay from Square, so I don't have automated invoicing just yet (it will only take a day or two to develop).
I've put considerably more effort into the creation of a massive database for all of my research (reference materials that I scan at the library, motions that colleagues have sent me, etc.). The database has become pretty massive, and I'm currently considering a dedicated text search engine for it rather than relying on postgresql's full text searching. Sphinx, for example, provides pretty awesome advanced text matching operators (phrase matching, proximity matching, strict order matching, sentence matching, paragraph matching, etc.) that will let me retrieve documents using the familiar Westlaw/Lexis boolean search operators (e.g., "prestigious w/s (law w/2 (school | center))").
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2825093&forum_id=2#36838791) |
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