While most will win by the creation of efficiencies, there will be losers. The losers will be those who do not immediately grasp the concept and who seek to maintain the inefficient obsolete systems. There is no doubt that every group or organization will be challenged to rethink their processes, create new vehicles for collecting and disseminating information and creatively incorporate the old processes into the new. There are three groups that can take significant advantage of the communications and publications aspects of the Internet. Bar associations are large entities whose objectives are to provide benefits to their attorney members.
Associations hold meetings, publish materials, conduct seminars, etc.
Governments use tremendous amounts of paper to publish laws, regulations and decisions. They can not generally offset the cost by advertising. The Internet allows government to post the laws, regulations and decisions. Users have free access and can print the information that they need themselves. The government can update the materials at any time and can post notices of changes or directly inform practitioners.