You have major clients with whom you exchange documents and your clients use one of the programs . Even though there are conversion filters built into the programs, it is clearly easier to use the same word processing program as your clients if you exchange a large number of documents. Since Microsoft dominates the corporate market, this may mean that you will be selecting Microsoft Word. If co-counsel in major cases use one of the programs . Since there is great loyalty among law firms to WordPerfect, this may mean that you will be selecting WordPerfect.
Cost is an overriding factor .
If you are going out to purchase new software for existing computers, the WordPerfect suite has been priced very aggressively and is significantly cheaper than Microsoft Office. Another WordPerfect feature often mentioned is that your office license also covers an additional installation on your home computer. Attitude toward Bill Gates . People have very strong opinions about Bill Gates. This is a silly reason for making an important decision, but this factor seems very important to some people.