We're mobilizing the practice of law and the delivery of legal services. We are trying very hard to make people as mobile as possible, so they can do everything with their laptops, and as that migrates to wireless devices in a few years, that will take it even further. She notes with a chuckle that it's a mixed blessing. How nice this is depends on whether you want to do work while you're on vacation or not. The firm is upgrading its network, and once in place, it will provide voice, data and video communications.
Clients require that, especially technology clients.
They don't want to hear that we're waiting for a fax machine to send those 100 pages to them. It also has increased the speed and changed the manner in which litigation is handled, he says. During a telephone conference with opposing counsel and clients, it's impossible to have a confidential conversation with his clients. The next big thing, he says, will be collaborative video conferencing. While technologically feasible today, it's a matter of getting more people using it before it comes into widespread use.