Ask HN: How do you collaborate on legal documents?

Re:Ask HN: How do you collaborate on legal documents? by bombcar on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:46PM (#34902453)

Usually the word documents are simple enough that "paste and match style" is all we need to do to get them in a usable form.

But if that's not good enough, try something like Confluence, I guess. It's "word-like" enough for editing, and relatively related to something akin to reasonable HTML.

But I bet what legal really likes is track changes.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you collaborate on legal documents? by nlewko on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:49PM (#34902489)

Legal won't even use track changes sometimes - they'll just made edits and then blackline/redline the original doc without the edits against the new doc with the edits to show changes which requires an extra step of conversion.

Clio is a tool some of my colleagues use and they say it's pretty good. Maybe give that a try!

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Re:Ask HN: How do you collaborate on legal documents? by xamp on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:58PM (#34902616)

Yep, that describes it pretty good

Thanks for the hint. I'll have a look at it.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you collaborate on legal documents? by xamp on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:49PM (#34902495)

In theory yes, they are fairly easy. But legal for examples often doesn't use enumeration in word properly which then results in the markdown to break etc.

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