Before April 20, it was easy to feel fungible as an associate. The hours were long. The tasks were menial. The ingenuity in cases came from senior members of the legal team — lawyers whose decades of experience taught them how to develop the complex, creative factual and legal arguments that eventually won the case. Sure, associates tended to be technologically savvy, but that ultimately was more parlor trick than substantive help to the case.
But on April 20, the technology gods evened the playing field. On that fateful day, lawyers learned that many of the most commonly used smartphones appear to track their owners’ locations.
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