The Business of the Practice of Law.
  Law Firm Holdouts.  Today, law firms, like many other businesses, are grappling with this new era called "technology".  Law firms have responded in vastly different ways.  Some refuse to accept technology (those of the ones that purchased their fax machines two years after everyone else).  Other firms live completely on the Internet.  Not only is technology their friend, it is their survival.

On the other hand, clients have adopted technology wholeheartedly.  There may still be a few holdouts, but their competitors will drive them out of the business in short order.  If law firms are going to offer valuable services to their clients they must recognize that technology cements relationships between lawyers and their clients. 

 Small and Solo Firm Technology Use   A brief overview of technology use in solo and small firms based on the 2002 ABA Annual Technology Survey.

Solo and Small Firm Technology Center of the ABA.  This Technology Center provides a single stopping point on the ABA's Web site for technology information designed specifically for solo practioners and small firm lawyers. The site is a collaboration between the Section on General Practice, Solo, and Small Firm, the Standing Committee on Solo and Small Firm Practitioners, and the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center.

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Notes for a Law Lecture" (July 1, 1850?), p. 81.

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.

On March 27, 1865, Albert Hunt made this charcoal sketch of Mr. Lincoln during his visit to General Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia

"The point you press -- the importance of thorough organization -- is felt, and appreciated by our friends everywhere. And yet it involves so much more of the dry, and irksome labor, that most of them shrink from it..."
--From the September 1, 1860 Letter to Henry Wilson

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
--From the November 5, 1855 Letter to Isham Reavis

"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
--From the June 28, 1862 Letter to Quintin Campbell

"I frequently make mistakes myself, in the many things I am compelled to do hastily."
--From the May 20, 1863 Letter to General Rosecrans