Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You

• Posted by Geoff Gussis on May 9th, 2007


• Filed in Guides, Tips and Practice Pointers

While ‘wikis” have been around for a while, they are starting to become more popular for legal topics, as Robert Ambrogi points out in a Law Technology News article.  If you just started getting comfortable with blogs, it’s time to learn more about wikis and how they can help you get your job done more efficiently:

The key word in these experiments is collaboration and the engine driving them is a type of Web site known as a wiki, from the Hawaiian word for fast. A wiki allows any Web page visitor to easily add, remove or edit content.Editing can be done quickly from within a browser and without any special knowledge of authoring formats. A wikis simplicity and ease of use make it an ideal tool for group projects. The first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, was written in 1994. But it wasnt until recently that wikis saw broader use. No doubt, a driving force has been the best-known wiki — the collaboratively written encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Neither are wikis new to the legal profession. Denver lawyer John DeBruyn has been experimenting with wikis as a tool for lawyer-to-lawyer collaboration since at least 1997. But in the legal world, as elsewhere, wikis have become more widely used in the last year or two.

Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You