The current crop of legal bloggers are putting us accountants to shame in the erudition stakes. Take this from geeklawyer.org in connection with the use of Blackberry devices:
It has been alleged that the primary difficulty that lawyers have with Blackberries is not technical but rather dropping them down toilets. Ruthie is not surprised, knowing at least three barristers (male) in recent history who have dropped their mobile phones down toilets. The difficulty occurs as men keep their mobile phones in their trousers pockets.
I’m wondering how the research was undertaken to confirm these findings. Perhaps readers have direct experience of these mishaps?
But to a more important and altogether worthwhile issue. A new resource entitled WikiCrime has been launched in response to a challenge contained in a podcast given by Professor Susskind, chief legal IT advisor to Whitehall . I’m not sure but I think the wiki was kicked off by Andrew Keogh, partner at Tuckers.
In his reported remarks:
Prof Susskind warned that the legal profession will operate in an increasingly pressured and highly commoditised market – in other words, that a large amount of the services that law firms will offer will be almost indistinguishable, and that offering them on-line will mean it might become almost impossible to charge more than a pittance for them.
Doesn’t all of this sound familiar? If so then perhaps we should draw some lessons from the growing army of legal bloggers out there who are actively discussing issues of the day, seeking to add value to their communities and most important of all, are using technology as the way to put value back into the community as a whole.
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