Lawyers are stupid
I say this as someone with years of experience in dealing with lawyers. The partners in my failed I.T. company were lawyers. Most of my clients were lawyers. 7% of my friends list are lawyers (no offense, but you're damned by the company you keep). Some of my family members are lawyers. I know what I'm talking about.
Currently, I'm the senior network engineer and data storage specialist at a company that provides e-discovery and digital forensic services for law firms. I've spent the majority of my Saturday processing case data for a law firm in a generic white-collar crime case. In the past three hours, I have received requests from three of the lawyers involved in the case to clarify the data I am sending them. By "clarify" I mean "print out the email I sent them and mail it to them instead" because as one lawyer put it "im not up with nw[sic] technology"
Three lawyers from a single firm want me to print out my email and mail it to them because they don't understand email. More importantly, they communicated this desire to me through email. What the fuck.
I'd like to say this is a rare occurrence, but I do recall at least one of my clients during my consulting days that would forward his email to his secretary so she could print it out and bring it to him in his office.
The only question is whether they are a cause or a symptom of the ailments that afflict our legal system.
ps. Barbecue chicken pizza and Knob Creek go amazingly well together.
Currently, I'm the senior network engineer and data storage specialist at a company that provides e-discovery and digital forensic services for law firms. I've spent the majority of my Saturday processing case data for a law firm in a generic white-collar crime case. In the past three hours, I have received requests from three of the lawyers involved in the case to clarify the data I am sending them. By "clarify" I mean "print out the email I sent them and mail it to them instead" because as one lawyer put it "im not up with nw[sic] technology"
Three lawyers from a single firm want me to print out my email and mail it to them because they don't understand email. More importantly, they communicated this desire to me through email. What the fuck.
I'd like to say this is a rare occurrence, but I do recall at least one of my clients during my consulting days that would forward his email to his secretary so she could print it out and bring it to him in his office.
The only question is whether they are a cause or a symptom of the ailments that afflict our legal system.
ps. Barbecue chicken pizza and Knob Creek go amazingly well together.