In many respects the year 2000 was a bit of a breather for most firms after all of the Y2K induced changes in 1999. Many of the legal specific software vendors report lower sales in 2000, especially those representing the time and billing industry. However, even if law firm technology expenses might have paused briefly, the pace of technology change has not taken a break from its relentless progression.
More technology is on the way.
More on these topics later. By this time most law firms should be on a regular replacement schedule for all of their hardware and software products. For software, a useful rule of thumb is to never let software get to be two versions old. There are some software and hardware upgrades clearly on the horizon for 2001. These include the move to Windows 2000 - at the desktop and, perhaps at the servers as well.