Is There an IDE for Lawyers?

Question

Is there any kind of tool(s) that lawyers or politicians use to write law? Like a writing program with auto completion, or IDE-like navigation to referenced laws? Is there any version control systems like git specifically made for changing laws?I am trying to think about how we can make the next evolution in law and politics, and I think that an IDE or suite of tools that can be used to make writing/updating law easier would be an incredible boon.Just think about all the great tools that have been built because of good code navigation in VSCode or IntelliJ. Are tools like this being built for law?

smt88 · Accepted Answer

Lawyers and politicians are the worst clients. I say that as someone whose clients are insurance and real estate, mostly. Lawyers are worse and don't pay their invoices.They also loathe automation because it reduces their billable hours.

smoldesu · Answer

Software engineers are a foolhardy bunch (I say this as a developer myself), but the one place every dev knows they're beat is law. If you intend to make a product like this, you're likely going to spend more time foolproofing your liability clause than you will spend writing the code itself.

lawthrowaway · Answer

All the lawyers I know use Word with change tracking turned on.

metaloha · Answer

Jurisage is sort of on the edge of this with their research software.