The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association
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P E E R T O P E E R : I L T A ' S Q U A R T E R L Y M A G A Z I N E | F A L L 2 0 1 8 47 of documents become corrupt during drafting—making a careful review downright impossible, even by the author. Collaboration: Improving Documents Through Multiple Perspectives File integrity is all the more important in the final stage of the document drafting lifecycle, which brings in more participants—and with them, more problems! Collaboration is vital to gain additional perspectives, but it's fraught with hazards for the unwary. Keeping track of a single up-to-date version of a document that incorporates all the comments and changes made by different collaborators is the first challenge. Then there are the problems of tracking overlapping changes and comments or comparing a new document to a previous version. Finally, lawyers need a way to share documents safely and securely, while preventing the dissemination of potentially confidential information in metadata. By bringing together several companies with different areas of expertise and refocusing on the critical skill sets lawyers need to exercise, we as legal technolo companies can create wraparound solutions that make it faster and easier to complete complex tasks. Our work with the document drafting lifecycle represents just one way that consolidated teams can create unified interfaces—tools that work seamlessly within the platforms that lawyers already use for their essential tasks. Because there's no clicking through different programs or managing multiple windows, this approach allows legal technolo companies to improve, rather than disrupt, lawyers' workflows. That's not all: by coordinating our strengths and working together instead of separately, consolidated legal technolo companies are now better equipped to support lawyers throughout the full scope of their work. Instead of searching for support across myriad vendors, legal professionals can reach out to one company that understands the full product suite. Instead of dealing with bug files and system crashes, lawyers can shift effortlessly from creating to checking to collaborating— and back—as they work through the document drafting lifecycle. Similarly, other legal technolo companies are providing broad-based platforms that work to solve problems across the entire lifecycle of a task, rather than one discrete element. ILTA legal technology skills improvement Why Join LTC4? Join a global community of law firms, legal departments, law schools, vendors and training providers Working for a future where all legal professionals use technology efficiently AND can prove it Provide your clients with the proof of efficiency they are asking for through THE industry standard LTC4 Certification info@ltc4.org www.ltc4.org