What They're Using: Christian Einfeldt, Producer, the Digital Tipping Point

Is beyond office applications, what FOSS software gets used in the law office? I have one client who uses a Red Hat server, but it's just a file server and they run TABSiii and Amicus off of it...which is really not a bad thing. I have other clients who use PCLaw (which MUST run on a Windows server now, older versions just needed a file server). What stuff is good and ready that is actually a native Linux app?

Back in the day, all law offices used WordPerfect.

> ...all law offices used WordPerfect.

AFAICT, some still do.

WRT WordPerfect --

Doesn't have the penetration it used to, but WordPerfect was favored, in part, for it's superior ability to set up a Table of Authorities, which is essential in writing legal briefs.

I tried using Word in law school, and hurt myself quite badly in one legal writing class because the ToA was too hard to put together.

A lot of law offices I am at (and accountants) still use WP, Word is just a pain. I don't know that WP is any less of a pain (almost everything with a simple text editor for me), but at least, IIRC, it supports ODF.

Am I wrong, or are most of the PCLaw-TABS-ProLaw type programs rather easily replaced by an ERP solution that will allow for clients, time tracking and billing? Or do they do something special specifically related to the law?

Quoting:Or do they do something special specifically related to the law?

They allow for more billable hours. LOL.

The more different programs you have to use to enter everything, the more time you get to spend switching between them, thus the more time you can bill your clients. Or maybe I'm just a bit cynical....