I don’t know if it’s just our firm, but we are suffering heavily from an outbreak of new PDAs. No, not an influx of silver-haired rockers, who ‘previously did acid’, nor the infamous alcohol-crazed will-we-ever-make-partner sub-cult, the ‘petrol drinking associates’.
No, what I mean are the latest handheld gizmos called personal data assistants. The word on the street is that you’re just not an effective lawyer if you don’t have a small colour-screened computer by your side at all times. And there, of course, is where the problems begin.
