Several suggestions offered by other attorneys and legal professionals via Compuserve include providing a computer for home use. With a computer at home, attorneys are not embarrassed or under pressure at the office and could experiment with the computer privately. And in a lot of cases, their kids can help teach them the basics. Using computers together can help bridge this gap and offer a close bonding with parents and children. Several Suggestions for Firm Use These suggestions are for those firm administrators that are tasked with getting all staff and attorneys up to speed on the computer.
Most law firms are on some time of hourly fee basis.
In other words, if they aren't working billing time, they are not productive. Using those types of billing techniques, time is still important, but the client's fee is not based solely on the amount of time spent on the case. This philosophy lends itself to having the attorney use the computer more and therefore provide ongoing training to that attorney. Word processing is not necessarily the first program attorneys should learn. This is true in many cases.