First, you can anticipate your client's needs. Second, you can serve your clients cost-effectively. If your competition is using technology effectively, they may be able to practice at a lower cost. Keeping yourself wired will help to keep you cost-competitive. Finally, you may be able to recognize issues for your clients before the issues become problems.
Technology changes on an hourly basis.
Although becoming an expert on all the changes is not feasible or necessary, knowing the basic changes is possible. And the more you keep up with now, the easier integrating technology into your practice will become. Plus, as technology continues to change the way we practice law, moving along with those changes will become second nature, making the use of technology exciting and, yes, even fun. Susan Ross, an attorney and engineer, is the founder of InterLegal Services, Inc., providing Internet consulting with a legal point of view.