Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%

Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.

Where Have All the Technophobes Gone?

By Bruce W. Marcus
February 27, 2008

About five years ago, I attended what was one of the earlier LegalTech New York conferences. I reported that two words echoed persistently through the corridors at Legal Tech ' technophobe and extranet.

Legal Tech is the excellent and information-rich three-day conference that brings lawyers and technology together. It was, then, as some lawyers and a lot of techies all obsessed with moving the legal profession into the 21st century. I said, then, that a technophobe is an individual who is so frightened of new technology that he or she recoils from it. Sometimes technophobes wear defensive robes by boasting about their ignorance, as if to imply that there's a virtue in ignorance or that technology is demeaning to the intellectually superior technophobe. It's usually a kind of false humility, designed to soften a feeling of inadequacy (or just plain laziness, whichever comes first).

This premium content is locked for LJN Newsletters subscribers only

  • Stay current on the latest information, rulings, regulations, and trends
  • Includes practical, must-have information on copyrights, royalties, AI, and more
  • Tap into expert guidance from top entertainment lawyers and experts

For enterprise-wide or corporate acess, please contact Customer Service at [email protected] or 877-256-2473

Read These Next
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later Image

The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.

Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations Image

This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.

The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs Image

The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.

CLE Shouldn't Be the Only Mandatory Training for Attorneys Image

Each stage of an attorney's career offers opportunities for a curriculum that addresses both the individual's and the firm's need to drive success.

A defendant in a patent infringement suit may, during discovery and prior to a <i>Markman</i> hearing, compel the plaintiff to produce claim charts, claim constructions, and element-by-element infringement analyses.