What are some tech tools that have changed your law practice?
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“You can’t be afraid” of tech tools, says Monica Bay, a freelance writer and a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Legal Informatics in a Legal Rebels Trailblazer podcast. “They’re going to make things easier, faster and more transparent.”
Bay is happy that the legal profession is embracing technology in recent decades; when she briefly practiced in the 1980s, practitioners were resistant. Bay said the thinking among many lawyers was that “only the girls touch anything with a keyboard.”
This week, we’d like to ask you: What are some tech tools that have changed your practice? Whether it’s hardware from decades ago (that may have already outlived its usefulness) or software you purchased this year, tell us what it is and how it helped.
Answer in the comments.
Read the answers to last week’s question: What class do you wish were offered at your law school?
Featured answer:
Posted by bblawyer: “The one skill I use almost every day was not taught at all in law school: Negotiation. The inability to organize and prioritize a client’s needs and wants as well as those of an opposing party and to negotiate well is fatal to business and justice.”
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