Just when you think you have learned everything, something comes along and shows you that you have learned nothing . . . Enter blogging. My friends, colleagues, and, yes, even my children have extolled the virtues of the Internet. I have been dragged into the 21st Century kicking and screaming. I am finally "On-line Chattable", "Instant Messageable", "Facebook Friendly", "Spell-check Dependent", and joined at the hip with my iPhone. I have a micro-laptop, a desktop-laptop, on-board navigator, hands free phone and Onstar for highway emergencies. Yesterday I was techno-savvy and today I am just a Beginning Blogger.
With all of the technology available today, law firms have incredible tools at their disposal. We have research tools and programs to store our files. We have the ability to enter information into a form and have a pleading pop out on the printer. We can keep our data "in the clouds" so that we never lose a file or document. In my office (http://www.bobleonard.com/) we have all these things and more. If there is a new gadget or tool to help us provide better service to our clients, we have it.
The advances in technology are amazing and awesome. Does technology give us better lawyers or does it simply allow anyone who can read and type to be able to practice law? Law is a noble profession, lawyer jokes aside. A lawyer is an attorney and counselor. We hire attorneys to be our advocates; to give us advice and to hold our hands during difficult times. We want our lawyers to have big brains and big hearts; we don't really care about big hard drives.
Syd's Law of the Week: Unplug the telephone, shut down the computer and THINK about your cases and your clients.
Good advice!
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