Internet Research: A Lawyer's New Best Friend
Posted: March 12th, 2008
By: Zach Heller
Category: CLE Programming, Opinion Corner, Technology Corner

Though many industries have found ways to use the internet to make their jobs easier and more efficient, some industries are slower to change.  The law, for example, is a profession where you will find a lot of people stuck in their ways, unwilling to respond to new technologies available.  However, with the vast amount of information systems out there, it is time that lawyers learn how to make the best use of the internet to help themselves out.

A company called Internet for Lawyers, based in California, has been trying to reach out to attorneys and show them how to accomplish a lot of what they have to do online.  After realizing that there was a great opportunity for research to be done on the internet, they saw a need from someone to teach these lawyers how to get the information the needed to have.  And so the continuing education company was founded with that goal in mind, to teach lawyers how to make best use of the internet.

Nowadays, with so much of our lives being moved online, it is about time that every industry learn to make best use of the internet and other technologies offered to them.  There are entire areas of the law focused on internet based activity and conduct, and with every new technology offered, those laws continue to adapt and expand.  Lawyers need to become familiar with everyday use of the internet both at work and at home.  Research is only a start.  Who knows what will come next…virtual trials?

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