Marketers seek such people out as useful barometers of coming fashions.
But there should also be a term for those who resist change so adamantly that when they finally give in, a transition is complete. Lawyers as a species are ill adapted to the Internet age. Since we're paid to imagine every improbable disastrous contingency, risk aversion has been bred into our bones. And since change in the law is incremental, we are ill prepared for revolutions. But lawyers cannot afford to be stodgy anymore.