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Most of the jokes about IT vs. legal come at lawyers' expense, so its nice to see some dished out to IT. While Scott Adams may not have had lawyers in mind when he created this strip, I do believe lawyers belong to the "word smiths" clique.  Hmm, perhaps this explains why so many people still can't open the new MS Office formats....

Oh! The HERESY! In response to a recent post on this blog, Steven Levy suggests that Legal Project Management is not a panacea.[1] Dr. Feel-not-so-good Mr. Levy claims you can't just swallow the LPM pill and find that all your practice-management and client relations headaches have gone away. As reactions to LPM move from "what?" and "it doesn't apply to us lawyers" to wider acceptance by the legal community as a necessary part of the solution to the legal industry's ills, we LPM promoters must prepare ourselves for lawyers whose attitude towards LPM are like my attitudes towards physical fitness. I see...

Much has been written about the communication and cultural barriers separating legal and IT departments and the risks this creates for corporations struggling with the growing burden of electronic discovery. This isn't particularly surprising, given that most attorneys come from a liberal arts background with only minimal exposure to science and technology and most computer science majors have minimal exposure to the law. Ignorance often breeds contempt. This, I believe, is further exacerbated by the overall low opinion that engineers, IT professionals, and other "techies" have of lawyers. I remember telling an old high-school buddy, who was and is an engineer, that I...