When Hurricane Katrina hit, I felt compelled — just as I felt on 9/11/01 — to be a witness. To try, in some small, humble way, to tell the stories of those in our legal technology community whose lives were forever jarred by forces outside their control.
Today’s post-Katrina New Orleans is an eerie lesson in cognitive dissonance: The Ninth Ward is flattened, yet the French Quarter seems unscathed. Everything near the levees of Lake View is broken and closed, except the Lowe’s home repair center — its parking lot is jammed with pickup trucks. (A best-seller: T-shirts proclaiming “Sheetrock Happens.”) UPS and FedEx deliver, but some folks still can’t get their mail.
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