I spend a fair amount of time with lawyers, law students, paralegals, and others involved in the legal profession. I used to think that the aversion to technology that is widespread throughout the law was an age thing, but I’ve come to realize that it runs deeper than that.
As someone who is fairly comfortable with technology, I admit that I have a hard time understanding when others seem to have such difficulty and fear with things that seem to me to be almost second nature. When you try to explain to someone that in the year 2007 you shouldn’t still be keeping a typewriter around “just in case” and that it sends a bad message to both clients and prospective employees, they look at you like you have two heads.
This study does a much better job than I ever could in explaining the issue:
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Lawyers Want Technology Training
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