Lawyers Slow to Adopt Cutting-Edge Technology

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Lawyers Slow to Adopt Cutting-Edge Technology

Posted Aug 29, 2008, 12:53 pm CST
By Edward A. Adams

If you think an RSS feed is something that cattle munch on, you’re not alone. For all the hype—at conferences, on the Internet, and in this publication and others—about how Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way lawyers practice, the bulk of the profession is only now on the verge of beginning to use those tools in their daily professional lives, according to the ABA’s annual Legal Technology Survey Report.

The survey, based on responses from approximately 850 lawyers nationwide, shows that websites and e-mail newsletters are still the digital way that most attorneys stay current with the news. A small minority reports reading blogs; but actually creating a blog is something the geeky lawyer down the hall—or, more likely, across town—is into.

Read the rest of "Web 2.0 Still a No-go," in the September issue of the ABA Journal.

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Posted by Laurie/Halo Secretarial - 3 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 8 minutes ago

Slow to adopt maybe, but once the benefits are fully realized there will be an explosion around the country!!! Every day I see the benefits of blogging for my virtual paralegal business, and I know that the legal blawggers out there are seeing results too.
Posted by NotaLawyer - 3 months, 5 days, 11 hours, 21 minutes ago

RSS feeds and social networks, cutting edge tech?
Web 2.0 is partial integration with Semantic web tech and RDF, with others.
Click ad content, ABA is weak on IT
ECMS, enterprise content management systems, would be great in business, but lots of issues remain.
Blogging is also not cutting-edge tech. Especially many of the blogging systems out there.

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