I love young lawyers. They understand and embrace how the practice of law is going to morph and evolve in the next decades while guys like me, who fear change and yearn for the old ways of doing things, fade away. In that vein I was speaking with Brendon Levesque of Hartford a few weeks ago about his opinion that lawyers need to understand some (or all) matters technical in order to practice competently. I think he’s right.
For example, Brendon argued that it was important for lawyers to be proficient in texting. I pointed out that some lawyers we both knew don’t even use email. Brendon, while not being critical of others, said that in his opinion part of competent practice is being able to communicate with clients in a language and on a medium they are familiar with. Many young folks don’t use email any more, preferring texting and other more ephemeral things such as Snapchat.
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