You probably won't understand this keyboard unless you're a lawyer

I'm not entirely familiar with lawyer workflows, but some seem to agree that working with a regular keyboard isn’t very efficient.

Legalboards founder Brian Potts, who's a partner himself at a Wisconsin lawfirm Perkins Coie, was fed up with the traditional way of adding obscure symbols into their legal documents: "As was my custom, I had to stop what I was doing, use the mouse, go to insert a symbol, find the section symbol and hit insert," he told Lawsitesblog.com.

There are keyboard shortcuts for certain symbols, but they often require a code you have to memorize. For example, for the © symbol, it's "Alt + 0169."

- Turn underline, italics, or bold functions on and off
- Turn track changes on and off
- Start a bullet list
- Add a footnote or comment, then jump back to the main text
- Find a term in your document, then jump back to the main text
- Change line spacing
- Turn small caps on and off
- Insert common citations and legal words like “court”, “plaintiff”, and “id.”