Submitted by newshound on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 10:18
In 2004, after 23 years as a senior litigator in a midsize law office, I decided to open my own firm and run it with entirely free and open source software. FOSS is free from licensing fees, free to modify and customize it to your law practice and "open" in the sense that the software is neither weighed down with proprietary code nor confined by a one-size-fits-all modus operandi.
So, you ask, "What about interaction with other lawyers and clients?" No problem. Lawyers and judges do not even know that I am using FOSS . I can read their files created with proprietary word processors and I can produce compatible files for their word processors. Although I have problems with some templates, such as manipulating data on numbered pages of interrogatories, I have developed simple work-arounds.
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