Legal Underground on Legal Tech

David Swanner of the South Carolina Trial Law Blog has posted his list of Twelve Ways Technology Can Make You a Better Trial Lawyer as a guest contributor to the Notes from the (Legal) Underground blog. I think the post is interesting from a general perspective for two reasons:

First, five of the dozen items involve blogs. Five. Nearly half. I think a similar list could be made for each specialization in the law, and suppose that all of these lists could include the same five items.
Second, Al Nye made a simple comment regarding the entire list that, I believe, summarizes the state of blog-adoption by the legal community: “Now if lawyers could only learn to use those products…”

I still have the impression that lawyers (all of us; not just particular specializations) are generally unaware of the wealth of information available in blogs. Its not that lawyers are ignoring blogs or making choices against the use of blogs. I think most lawyers have no idea of the value that blogs offer. Of those that ‘know about’ blogs, very few are actually using them in their daily practice. This is particularly frustrating with blogs because RSS technology makes it so simple to incorporate these resources into a practice.

I guess we’ll just have to keep trying to get the word out...