We have placed a high priority on updating the Bar's website. We will build an interactive site that allows our members to conduct transactions online and draws them to active pages with dynamic, useful information. The Bar's website will be redesigned to make it more user-friendly and more intuitive to operate. Our members are rapidly becoming accustomed to using technology, which no longer solely supports secretarial and accounting functions. Lawyers are now integrating technology into every aspect of case management.
Corporate clients demand that their law firms become more technologically enabled.
In today's marketplace a law firm's technology prowess is often a factor considered by corporate boards of directors in deciding which firms are chosen or retained as outside counsel. At the same time many individual clients expect to be able to communicate with their lawyer via e-mail and to be able to pay by credit card over the Internet for services rendered to them. The law firm unable or unwilling to acquiesce to that mode of operation will become increasingly disadvantaged. The Bar's Technology Task Force will take a fresh look at the opportunities technology has created. The committee will consist of 15 tech-savvy representatives from the Bar membership, staff, the court system, and law schools.