When Pete Townshend wrote " Goin’ Mobile," first produced by The Who on their 1971 album " Who’s Next," little did he realize the tune would portend how lawyers, even those " Over 50," would receive their news and information.
In the last year traffic to ALM digital properties from mobile devices has increased nearly 60 percent, far outpacing the growth in desktops and laptops, according to the legal content and software provider’s website statistics. (ALM is the parent company of Texas Lawyer and Law Technology News.) This trend has been especially profound for tablet owners who just two years ago made up less than one percent of all traffic and today are now five-fold that number. In general, lawyers have chosen iOS devices as their preference with nearly 80 percent of ALM visitors using a product manufactured by Apple Inc. Even more dramatically, when it comes to using tablets to read legal news, Apple holds a 98 percent share of the legal market, according to the 2012 Am Law Tech Survey.
