Law Technology
The attitude of the legal employees towards the New Age Technologies and their usage in their everyday work may be quite opposite. Of course, there are attorneys, which are being for, and those, which are being against.
There was a national survey of legal professionals that found that while technology is greatly widespread among lawyers, there are big gaps that exist among several generations concerning their usage in their workplace. The generational discrepancies in the technology effect connected with the workplace etiquette were found. Besides, the impacts on the personal and professional tasks were investigated. This research analyzed the influence of technology in the workplace of attorneys. Also, it tried to compare the usage of technology and software among generations of legal people, dividing them into tree groups – the 1st –44-60, the 2nd – ages 29-43, the 3rd – 28 and younger.
According to the research, there are wide differences between these three generations on what the correct appliance of technology and software is. The example may be that seventy-five percent of older generation agree on the fact that such Personal Digital Assistants as BlackBerries, Palm Treos, etc. and mobile phones contribute to a decrease in the proper workplace culture. Besides, they believe that the use of a laptop during personal meetings is being a bit distracting moment, and at the same time only forty-four percent of the middle generation’s legal professionals agree on this.
There are twenty-seven percent of older legal professionals, which suppose blogging about the work-connected issues is being acceptable; in comparison, there are fifty-two percent of the middle legal professionals.
It is quite evident that with the appearance of these new technologies the boundary between home and work was blurred; and as a result, the lines between personal and professional tasks were washed out – including online technologies, such as blogging and social networking sites. The research gave the following facts:
– There were fifty-five percent of the middle generation legal professionals that accessed a social networking from work, while there were only thirteen of such legal people among the older generation.
– Also, there were fifty-two percent of the middle generation legal professionals that suppose that it is appropriate to “befriend” his colleague on the social networking site comparing with less than twenty percent of the older generation.
As for the younger generation legal professionals, so almost eighty percent suppose such communication to be quite normal.
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