It may be hard to believe, but we already have closed the books
on 2014, and we now have started making our legal way into 2015.
The year 2015 at first blush sounds futuristic, and in many ways we
really are living in the legal tech future we could have barely
imagined not that many years ago.
When I started practicing law approximately 30 years ago,
advanced technology meant that legal secretaries used mag cards in
their electronic typewriters. When we conducted legal research, we
actually went into the law library and cracked open real,
hard-backed books. Once upon a time, it was a very, very big deal
to receive a fax.
Back then, we used dictaphones to dictate letters, memoranda and
briefs. When it came to document production, we actually met in
conference rooms with opposing counsel and exchanged boxes of hard
copy documents for in-person review. When we made telephone calls,
we were tethered to the phones and phone cords at our office desks.
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