Technology Abuse Redux
My sister, a bankruptcy lawyer in New Jersey, just called me to give me a follow-up on my prior technology blog.
She told me the following story:
She received an email from a secretary to an opposing lawyer. It had an attachment. As she was opening the attachment, someone from her office walked in to hand her a fax. The attachment and the fax WERE THE SAME LETTER!!!. To make matters worse, this luddite was also sending a hard copy of the letter.
This was not a pleading, it was correspondence. This lack of understanding is the stuff that Dilbert cartoons are made of. Did the lawyer have a tough time licking the stamp to send the email? Does he wonder how the little people get into the fax machine to read the document to the little people in the machine in the other lawyer's office? And how do telephones work anyway? Perhaps he stays awake at night wondering if the light in the refrigerator really goes off when he closes the door.
Get with the program folks. If email is not fast enough, you have a problem. If the fax confirmation states that the fax has been sent and the correct number of pages are listed, and you still don't believe it, you have a problem. When you drop a letter into a mailbox, do you open the door again to see if it really went in? If so, you have a problem. Don't make your problems someone else's.
That's the curmudgeonly view from The Law Planet - Jupiter, Florida.
