Designed for Lawyers
While technologists and other business consultants focus on productivity, lawyers have personal and professional concerns that do not share this model. Thus lawyers are wise to hesitate when presented with the latest technology that promises to save them time or money or both.
Providing assistance to lawyers requires a profound understanding of the values that inform the practice of law.
Designed by Lawyers
The goal of expediting tasks does not relate to the practice of law. In fact, law firms should be wary of dispersing their information into multiple products. The speed of accessing a record is secondary to the preservation of the record's meaningful context.
A firm's technology must never intrude on the intellectual effort at the core of good lawyering.
For lawyers to benefit, the system must provide the functions that enhance their workflow and a design that is easy for lawyers to use.