While attorneys benefit greatly from the marriage of technology and law, they have not been able to bridge those benefits into the holiest of holies, the courtroom — until now. The union of two technologies — the vast database archives of Westlaw and wireless handheld computers — has opened the courthouse doors, and the implications are endless.
In an ideal world, a motion made to the court is accompanied by the memorandum of law in support of that motion. Both documents are served to the parties weeks before the hearing. But in the real world a motion made weeks before a hearing will not be joined with its memorandum of law until moments before oral argument is heard.
