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