Lawyer, Slawyer, and newspaper columnist David Canton [1] has teamed up with rtraction [2], an Ontario IT company, to produce PolicyTool [3]. The notion is that businesses need policies in place to govern a variety of employee practices but can’t always afford the services of a lawyer to devise them; PolicyTool invites you to answer a number of questions and feeds the answers into well-drafted “boilerplate,” resulting in a “comprehensive and informed framework for your legal counsel to quickly create a binding policy.” PolicyTool does the initial drafting; and a lawyer engaged by the user will tweak and approve.
At the moment the only area in which PolicyTool offers its service is in relation to the use of social media [4] by employees. Other policy areas are under development.
The use of PolicyTool is currently free.
It’s been getting a lot of coverage on Twitter [5] and has been bookmarked a couple of hundred times on Declicious [6]. Congratulations, David.