Understanding how to harness social media in the practice of law is a hot topic. There are many firms that prohibit access to social media sites at work. Some actually block entrée, while others simply discourage it. Many claim that social media sites are time-wasters.
“That’s really the language that masks the larger generational issue,” said Kim Huggins, the author of GENerate Performance . According to Huggins, there are four generations of legal practitioners in the workplace: Traditionalists (born before 1946), Baby Boomers (1946-1964), Generation X (1965-1980) and Generation Y (1981-2000). Of them, a large majority of the managing partners and judicial decisionmakers fall into the Traditionalist and Baby Boomer categories.
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