Re: [Debian-Lex]

[Warren Stramiello <warren@stramiello.net>]

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 <warren@stramiello.net> 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]

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