So, to remedy that deficiency I have added my boys to the traditional president's portrait on the cover of this issue of the Bar Journal . Not since Bill Whitehurst in 1986, has anyone included his or her children on the cover. Critics might be quick to point out the hypocrisy of this photograph featuring the children of a woman who lives with guilt for the lack of time she devotes to her family. But that's another story. Frankly, including all three of us on the cover matters little to anyone but my family.
Consequential changes are much harder.
At the bar, and everywhere else, we face consequential changes, actually revolution, brought about by technology. I am the technology president but not by design. The course of events is such that anyone who would be president today would be the technology president. The changes wrought by technology engender both fear and enthusiasm. Technology offers the opportunity to reach lawyers in small towns and in non-traditional practices, to personalize the services the bar provides, to make information easier to access and to provide all manner of services.