Technology budgeting is difficult; prices fall, but hidden costs rise
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Lawyers or law librarians doing technology budgeting should be careful with the third element of such budgeting, namely maintenance. Many of the hidden costs of maintaining the technology flow from its new capabilities, such as secure Internet access and Web page development. Technology also means staff to teach people how to use the technology. Many libraries must maintain both print and electronic versions of the material because some clients either lack the skills or simply prefer using books. The good news is that the price of both hardware and software decreases as new versions come out.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Computers don't always do just what you want; lawyers find technology no panacea. Alas, some are working even harder
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Lawyers are finding that computers are not the panacea they were promised. Problems include the need to downsize client and colleague expectations about technology's capabilities, the difficulty of budgeting for technology in view of the uncertainty of future costs, technology failure at key moments as well as its failure to lighten the workload since supposedly unnecessary support staff and junior attorneys have been dismissed. Expectations of speed of response created by technologies like electronic mail can also be extremely stressful.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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On tech, they decide; digitally gifted lawyers are chief knowledge officers
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Law firms are recognizing the need to designate one lawyer to specialize in technology in recognition of the fact that the software business is not focused on the law and attorneys who have become very computer-literate may know best what their colleagues need. Intranets are one of the new technologies that law firms are trying, used to put everyone's work product in one data base. Ron Friedmann of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering was one of the original law firm technology specialists.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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