Connected Lawyer – writely®

Until this morning, I actually forgot all about this one. Futurelawyer had a post this morning reminding me about writely.

“Any document that needs input from several or a lot of people can be created or uploaded to the site, and anybody in the group can access and edit it. The documents are accessible anywhere you can get to a compute with Internet access. It will handle just about any document format, and is very easy to use.”

As writely states on its website, it is the web word processor.

• Share documents instantly & collaborate real time.

• Edit your documents from anywhere.

• Store your documents securely online.

• Easy to use.

I plan to take writely for a test run and even test it with a couple of clients that aren’t afraid of technology. I will let you all know how it goes. And thanks to the Futurelawyer for the reminder.

Andrew Flusche

I look forward to your test of writely with clients. I tried it out a while back as a solution to the collaboration needs for the Journal I'm on at law school. What turned me off was the formatting (or lack thereof) for the document. It seems to handle the content perfectly, but I was worried about being able to apply and maintain the correct styles to the documents themselves. Specifically, I didn't see how footnotes would work properly, nor how there could be defined "pages" for a Table of Contents reference. I'm curious how your test goes.

Grant Griffiths

Paul - Great idea to cover your practice with Google and Web 2.0 I will do a post soon on "The Connected Lawyer" and what the Google tools mean to it. And, please post comments on what you all are using to stay connected. I would like the "Connected Lawyer" to be an on going series of post.

Paul

My PowerBook is going in for long overdue repairs on Monday and Tuesday and I will be left with a PC with none of my templates on it for two days so I am going to use a bunch of Google tools to try maintain my practice for those two days.
I am going to use Writely for my documents, Spreadsheets for time keeping, Google Calendar for my schedule and Gmail for my mail. It is going to be a pretty interesting experience I think.