Also don't forget the interaction between enterprises and their outside counsel. I've often performed a fair amount of pre-review using tool X in order to narrow or cull the search results (or even do some pre-case evaluation) and these tools are often different than the ones used by outside counsel and their document review firms. However, the better we can feed into those, the more efficient the process is for everyone.
Kevin On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Warren Stramiello <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd be happy to give it a longer look when I have the chance; I gave it a > quick skim earlier today. > > I think it might have use for some subsets of legal practice here in the > US (I could see it possibly being adaptable for legal aid / public > defender's offices; it also seems suited for law firms that handle massive > batches of insurance defense claims). U.S. legal practice and casefile > management varies heavily between attorneys, firms, and practice types, so > use outside of specific niches seems unlikely. I know that there are some > OSS folk in the public defender / legal aid space in the U.S. and that they > are working on using OSS tech to help out; I don't know of any that exist > in the insurance defense space. It might be worth approaching some of them > to see if they are interested. > > On 05/18/2017 10:15 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 May 2017 12:14:36 +0800 >> Warren Stramiello <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I also wanted to see if anyone is still active on the Debian-Lex >>> subproject so that I could help out--if not, I may be able to start it >>> up again (since I've been using Debian since Hamm, I've been an attorney >>> here in the US for the last decade, and I use Debian (and OSS tools) >>> heavily in my legal practice). Any idea who the best folks to pester >>> about that would be? >>> >>> I maintain Marica in the list, the English version of which is visible >> in my sig. >> >> This software aims to serve legal departements that manage a large number >> of legal files (hence probably also a large number of lawyers). The >> structure of the legal files in the software is based on a standard[*] >> historically used in French legal departments for paper files. It is not >> intended for lawyers, so I doubt it would fit your practice, but if you >> care to have a look through the demo account and give me your impression, I >> would appreciate it. >> >> I would also like to see a revival of the Debian-Lex project : this >> software can be used internationally as the model can be applied to any >> kind of legal file and translation is easy; thus I believe it could be made >> into a debian package used for legal file management. Not sure about going >> at it alone though. >> >> [* : See 'Introduction' in http://legalcase.libremen.com/ >> site/aide/index.html] >> >> > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Warren Stramiello | Computer Scientist & Attorney > 5 Masefield Lane > Hartsdale, NY 10530 > (415) 423-3571 (Direct Phone) | (678) 619-1337 (Skype) > [email protected] | [email protected] > > -- In Vino Veritas
