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Web 2.0 Comes to the Legal Profession

By Michele Vivona and David Bender
July 30, 2008

Members of the legal profession are rarely the first to embrace new generations of technology, but invariably that conversion happens eventually, and changes the way the business and practice of law are conducted. Paper discovery is steadily giving way to electronic discovery, intensive manual legal research in 'book stacks' has yielded to Web-based search platforms, and corresponding with clients by letter has been replaced with e-mail and other online communications.

Now we have what many technology experts call 'Web 2.0' and, once again, technology offers new opportunities for members of the legal profession to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their workflow. We believe it is in the interest of technology leads within law firms and corporate counsel groups to consider how they can better incorporate these innovations into their practices, given the benefits they can deliver.

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