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There’s a not-so-secret stereotype of lawyers that says they’re averse to technology, an old school bunch happier in dusty law libraries than surfing LexisNexis. “We’ve worked with very large, billion-dollar companies with contracts stored in filing cabinets,” says David Munn, general counsel of Pramata, a contracts management company. That image has moved further and further from reality in recent years, as top law departments turn to cutting edge technology and even the smallest departments experiment to build efficiency and save time and money.