1. Introduction
In today's society, it is the rare attorney who puts in a
long day at the office and goes home, leaving all further work to
be resumed the next morning. Attorneys today continue working by
BlackBerry or other smartphone during the commute home, frequently
also logging additional time connecting to the office remotely from
a home computer or laptop, and already have reviewed and responded
to new emails before stepping back into the office the next
morning.
While lawyers generally are not early adopters of new
technologies, our industry's reliance on new technologies has
by and large transformed the way we work during the last decade.
More and more attorneys have moved to electronic filing systems and
paperless office environments; use BlackBerries, electronic
notebooks and/or laptops; increasingly communicate via email or
instant messaging; and, have the ability to log into work remotely
anyplace and anytime.
