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With the advent of personal computers and the ubiquity of word processing software, the need arose to find a way to manage changes made to document versions shared via disk, and later email. The importance of mitigating risks associated with potential document changes became essential as the amount of document and revision sharing increased.
Legal technology, also known as legal tech, refers to the use of technology and software to provide legal services and support the legal industry. [1] [2] Legal technology encompasses the use of traditional software architecture and web technologies, such as searchable databases of case law and other legal authority, [3] as well as machine learning technologies, such as those used to ...
"Institutional Settlement." As the name suggests, the legal process school was deeply interested in the processes by which law is made, and particularly in a federal system, how authority to answer various questions is distributed vertically (as between state and federal governments) and horizontally (as between branches of government) and how this impacts on the legitimacy of decisions.
A word processor program is an application program that provides word processing functions. The most basic of them include input, editing, formatting, and output of rich text . The functions of a word processor program fall somewhere between those of a simple text editor and a fully functioned desktop publishing program.
The drafting of legal documents such as contracts is different as, unlike in most other legal writing categories, it is common to use language and clauses that are derived from form books, legal opinions and other documents without attribution. Lawyers use forms documents when drafting documents such as contracts, wills, and judgments.
It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents.
The Legal Writing Institute (LWI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving legal communication, building the discipline of legal writing, and improving the status of legal writing faculty across the United States. The institute currently has almost 3,000 members; while the bulk of the members are law professors, some of the members ...
Nota Bene (NB) began as an MS-DOS program in 1982, built on the engine of the word processor XyWrite.Its creator, Steven Siebert, then a doctoral student in philosophy and religious studies at Yale, used a PC to take reading notes, but had no easy computer-based mechanism for searching through them, or for finding relationships and connections in the material.