The modern lawyer spends the whole day interfacing through technology. Research is online, partner direction is emailed, meetings are teleconferenced, client relations and documents both have their own management systems, and so on. Technology’s tentacles invade an attorney’s day in ways great and small. Legal tech journalists try to stay on top of what’s out there by talking to vendors and firm experts about the challenges and opportunities they see.
But we rarely ask the associates charged with wielding all this tech how they feel about the products they’re using. This new survey focuses on how associates approach technology and it’s asking some blunt questions:
What is the one tool in this category you hate but are forced to use?
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So many surveys ask lawyers to participate to “tell us what you think” but nothing motivates someone to take the 5 minutes required to fill out a survey more than “tell us what you hate.”
This associate survey is one of four concurrent surveys by Modernize.legal seeking legal tech opinions from associates, law firm leaders, the firm-side buyers of the tech, and tech providers to get something of a 360-degree view of the industry.
We want to know how associates really feel about the training and tools available to them, how they feel about the impact of AI on their careers, and the legal tech products they love and hate to use. So we’re going to ask them directly: almost 80,000 associates across 200+ firms.
BUT they can always use more responses and you can always stand to get your opinion out there. Are there tools you hate? Tools you love? Do you have any faith in your firm to figure out how any of it works?
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Then… I dunno… bill it to professional development or something.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.