Excerpt from the July/August issue of The Docket, the Denver Bar Association’s monthly publication
A funny thing happened on the way to my law office. Everything changed. When I first began practicing law, there were some attorneys to whom I wrote detailed, long-hand, cursive letters. Granted, these attorneys were not from my generation, but I enjoyed the careful consideration and use of descriptive adjectives in that process.
Fast forward to 2014. We are working in an extraordinary time of innovation and lightning-fast communication. At the same time, as attorneys, we are hired for our careful, and hopefully, meticulous, thought processes.
As an intellectual property attorney, I’m torn. I am the “geek.” To my husband’s chagrin, I am the girl who’d rather compare car engines than jewelry. I’d rather have a new computer than clothes. Technology is remarkable. Our files are at our fingertips. We can conduct business in powerful ways, meeting with our clients throughout the world using video conferencing. Compare today to a short 50 years ago, when the first commercial version of the fax machine came into use.
Our technological advances have given us amazing tools, but do we always use them wisely? Have our ethical obligations changed with our technological advances?
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