“Lawyers, it’s time to learn it.” With those words, Craig Ball, a trial lawyer, computer forensics/EDD special master, and LTN columnist, closed a panel at last year’s LegalTech West Coast, urging legal to learn technology to better communicate with IT staff and be prepared when the specter of electronic discovery casts its shadow on the law firm door.
Ball has a recommendation. Instead of burying your nose in a pile of case law, open the doors of e-discovery perception and read a book such as Ron White’s “How Computers Work,” or check out the PC Guide website to get a firmer grip on what electronically stored information is and does. (FutureLawyer blogger Rick Georges has a novel solution to getting your geek on: “go to the bookstore and pick up as many computer magazines as [you] can find, read them from cover to cover, and then repeat.”)
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