Let’s take a step back and consider the practice of law 30 years ago. Clients were just starting to use those new-fangled things called computers. They were doing things like creating and editing documents using something called WordPerfect, and they were storing the information on hard square things called floppy disks. But the disks were easy to break and easy to steal. In addition, lawyers leaving law firms could save their key documents on these types of materials and walk out the door. Still, law firms persevered and began using computers.
As time passed, those disks became truly “floppy,” the capacity of computers to store information grew exponentially, and even the most reluctant lawyers had to deal with the newer technology, as did their colleagues in other fields. And of course, there was email, made famous by a company named AOL and its reminder, “You’ve Got Mail,” a phrase so popular they even named a movie after it.
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