Making powerful, easy-to-use software for lawyers is difficult — that’s obvious to everyone except those outside of the legal field. One of the keys to cracking the legal market is to make new products that work the way lawyers already do, not the way Dilbert thinks they should — even the open-source developers agree. It’s the reason, for example, that companies such as Aderant, Guidance Software, JurInnov, LexisNexis, and Microsystems are starting to make their product interfaces as similar as possible to Microsoft Outlook.
Law firm consultancy Lexvista understands this, as articulated Monday by CEO John Wallbillich in his WiredGC blog, which is part of the ALM Law.com blog network. In a post titled “Developing Legal Tech: Seven Challenges,” Wallbillich explained why the best laid plans of engineers and entrepreneurs often fail to take hold in this industry. His reasons:
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