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Customer stories and product news from Version Story, plus essays from The Redline, our newsletter on the future of legal work.
Git for Lawyers, Right on Time
In 2021 we joined YC to build git for lawyers. Five years and tens of thousands of edge cases later, our tech is mature and AI-native firms like Blackletter are asking us how we handle rebase and merge.
By Kevin O'Connell
“Claiming that AI can’t actually think is like quibbling about whether a car with a 350 horse-power engine can actually gallop like 350 horses.”
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The RedlineDon't trust people who don't use Claude Code
For they have not seen the future
By Jordan Bryan
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“Software development is the new literacy.”
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The RedlineThe future of Legal Tech will be built by lawyers
And what secure vibe-coding infrastructure for law firms could look like
By Jordan Bryan
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“Lawyers are in the business of reducing risk, not taking it.”
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The RedlineWhy can’t $4.3B in legal AI investment outcompete $20/month for ChatGPT?
And why venture capital disincentivizes building good legal products.
By Jordan Bryan
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“Lawyers and legal tech procurers often feel that vendors don’t ‘get it.’”
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The RedlineOn the Immortality of Microsoft Word
And why tech people refuse to accept it
By Jordan Bryan
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“This isn’t efficient collaboration. It’s a workaround for a broken system.”
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The RedlineLegal Version Control is 30 Years Out of Date
...and law firms are exposed to millions of dollars in liability
By Jordan Bryan
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“By design, all collaborators hold the pen at the same time.”
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The RedlineWhy Lawyers Will Never Use Google Docs
Last November, I published "On Building Git for Lawyers" about building Version Story, the first concurrent version control system for lawyers.
By Jordan Bryan
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“Legal documents aren’t just text on a page – they’re the operating system of society.”
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The RedlineOn Building Git for Lawyers
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
By Jordan Bryan
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