Vermont Bar Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 Winter 2015, Vol. 40, No. 4 | Page 5

by Daniel P. Richardson, Esq. PRESIDENT’S COLUMN The Button-Down Mind vs. the 21st Century Imagine if you will, that we could go back and tell a lawyer of 1965 about the practice of law in fifty years. Apart from the mundane and picayune (“Neck ties? Still? No Nehrus?”), the biggest change would be in many ways the hardest to explain. Imagine how you would explain to the lawyer of 1965 about computers. I think it would go something like this: Me: We have this device now called a computer. Atty. Don Draper: A computer? Does each law firm have a separate building to house it? Paul Frank & Univac? Me: No, it’s a