Practitioners in these areas recognize that information technology will only bring faster change. We expect rapid, fundamental shifts in commerce as digital technology sweeps the globe. We also know governments and laws are not keeping pace with technological change. Now it is a growth area. Most lawyers, no matter their specialty, will confront those technologies and their consequences in one way or another.
Some lawyers embrace new technology, learn it, take to it like ducks to water.
Others seem to fear the overlay of concepts and jargon essential to analysis of technology-related legal matters. But in litigation, transactional work or counseling, lawyers cannot afford to be daunted by the technology layer. There is no way around the need for lawyers to get comfortable with the basics of digital technology. The good news is that these concepts are easy and even interesting. Moreover, there is a greater urgency to understand them than, say, the intricacies of fee tail.