The Tritium Blog

Insights into legal technology, Tritium development, and the future of transactional law practice.

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Redlining, or Value Over Artifacts

What's the most famous negotiation in tech history? Perhaps it's the one that accompanies the most famous draft non-disclosure agreement in tech history. One…

COM Like a Bomb: the Rust Outlook Add-in

One of legal tech's clichés is that "lawyers live in Word". This is demonstrably incorrect. I, for example, am a lawyer and in fact live in London, England…

Legal's Jane Street

Like many competitive endeavours, pairing top human intuition and judgment with custom technology in finance often exceeds the capabilities of either alone…

Ideas on Glitching in Rust

Lawyers count on Tritium to be a stable desktop drafting environment. And Rust's borrow-checker gives us a lot of assurances toward that goal, especially as…

Updating Desktop Rust

Desktop software can be fast, local and secure--critical for good legal technology. But, unlike web apps, desktop applications go stale and require updates for…

(Figuratively) Eating Tritium

It’s canon that developers should use the products they make. Thinking of my favorite software and it seems most is also beloved by the developers who write…

Thoughts on the Word Spec in Rust

Tritium lives in the Word spec because to deliver great legal tech, we think we need to own the word processor. The Word spec is giant. It provides that a…

Parallelism with Tokio

This week's network drive work was good prep for the future of Tritium. Those exaggerated load times were surprising on a network drive, but they're to be…

Internationalization

Tritium got this feedback a few weeks back: "Please translate your wonderful application into french ! Thank you" It's without a doubt my favorite thus far…

The Network Drive Issue

One of the major benefits of Tritium as a legal drafting environment is that by default it runs on the lawyer's desktop, without any cloud services or data…