The press release claimed that “Ninety-nine percent of lawyers who responded to the 1999 Legal Technology Survey Report access the Internet from their law firms or corporate law departments” but that sentence wasn’t quite accurate. According to the report, itself, 99.73 of the 373 lawyers and others who responded to the question “Does anyone in your firm/department have FULL Internet/WWW access?” answered “yes”. When the question was changed to ask what percentage of the “employee category” of “lawyers” had full access to the Internet/WWW, the answer from the 369 respondents changed to 91.38 percent. (We couldn’t figure out how these figures compared to the 28 respondents who claimed that 29.71 percent of lawyers in their firm or legal department had access to external e-mail but not full Internet/WWW access.)
The survey, taken in June through September, 1999, covered only 550 of the 800 responses originally solicited through ABA Journaladvertising and law technology mail lists, supplemented by a selection of some 2150 ABA members with e-mail added to the respondent list, with 1469 “deliverable”.
