I’ve never been an IT worker in a law office, but lately it looks like an interesting place to work.
Imagine all the paperwork and filing your average law office is responsible for. If you’re running an office with multiple partners, you end up making multiple copies of things or you move to an all-electronic document solution of some sort. It’s no surprise that these offices were among the first to employ OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to its full potential.
Now that the documents are digitized, there’s the problem of knowing which pages are vital to a case. This is where Mumboe comes in. It uses standard English language semantics to identify key phrases in legal documents– contracts, specifically.
Mumboe is one of these new web-only applications, that is, it’s part of “the cloud.” I’m not sure how many law offices would trust their most sensitive documents to the cloud just yet. I’d imagine a LAN server-based version of the software would take off like a rocket…