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Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

#31
There should be a "build" button that pulled all the legal codes for the target jurisdiction and other legally binding documents and checked if everything checks out.

And to achieve this you would have to create a machine readable format for legal documents, and have a library of them already converted to it.

Then you could have a linter that highlighted that you made a logical mistake or did something wrong from the perspective of a legal guy.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Noted, and to be fixed. Thank you

I had edited prior message but would be great if supported PDF rendering as good as docx! (for research mostly, not a lawyer)

One thing it does is cast the PDF to grayscale to render for speed (lawyers rarely care about the color of a legal doc in PDF), so perhaps I'll make that an adjustable setting which will trade off speed for clarity. Otherwise, it uses PDFium for PDF rendering so it should come out just as well as what you see in a Chromium-based browser.

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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I had edited prior message but would be great if supported PDF rendering as good as docx! (for research mostly, not a lawyer)

One thing it does is cast the PDF to grayscale to render for speed (lawyers rarely care about the color of a legal doc in PDF), so perhaps I'll make that an adjustable setting which will trade off speed for clarity. Otherwise, it uses PDFium for PDF rendering so it should come out just as well as what you see in a Chromium-based browser.

might be an issue with DPI / Retina screens on macOS?

it's really more blurry than any pdf on chrome https://imgur.com/a/AElOuaA

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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I had edited prior message but would be great if supported PDF rendering as good as docx! (for research mostly, not a lawyer)

If this is Electron, try pdf.js - really good rendering, you can create a text layer (for text selection, etc). Probably the best result per effort you can get

care to link to repo? alwayss good to have one of these at hand

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Say you were going to cold email a lawyer to pitch them to use this, what would you write?

Probably something like: "

[Person] - hope you're well! I wanted to put Tritium on your radar. It's a word processor jacked on steroids built just for transactional lawyers.

From built-in defined term annotation to multi-document search/replace to redlining and much, much more, it will help your team work faster and more effectively on existing Word documents and PDFs. You'll even pick up errors from outside counsel.

Tritium runs on Windows, MacOS and even Linux for your most tech savvy lawyers.

Please let me know if that might be good for your legal team, and I'd love to demo it for you."

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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This looks great! I’m really stoked to see egui being used for the desktop app. While I’m not a lawyer, I was wondering about the potential for external references to cases, i.e doc1 references a case which isn’t present locally, which can then be navigated to via something like “go to definition”. Maybe something like an indexer that crossrefs on a database of legal cases? Do you have any thoughts on some other use cases? The idea of an IDE for lawyers is super cool, can’t wait to see where this goes!

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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Probably dumb question: Given that many lawfirms bill by the hour, are there incentives to make their work more efficient? I.e. if a firm were to adopt this tool, can they practically charge more per hour than a firm that does not?

Yes, they are not incentivized to adopt new technology in their current state. The senior partners don't want to wait around for the eventuality of charging more per hour. That's why Tritium is marked to in-house lawyers for now.

I talked a little about this back in September: https://www.legalinnovators.co.uk/post/legal-innovators-uk-t...

Re: Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

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This looks great! I’m really stoked to see egui being used for the desktop app. While I’m not a lawyer, I was wondering about the potential for external references to cases, i.e doc1 references a case which isn’t present locally, which can then be navigated to via something like “go to definition”. Maybe something like an indexer that crossrefs on a database of legal cases? Do you have any thoughts on some other use…

Thanks so much. Yes, the plan is to package libraries along with the product to allow for all kinds of external entities to be resolved.

Egui is great!

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