Lawyers don't fully appreciate how much technology is changing the nature of law practice, several witnesses said today at a public hearing conducted by the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20. "Many lawyers don't understand that technology is a leading cause of the economic climate that's affecting the profession," said Jayne Reardon, the executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, who was one of those testifying. "Lawyers need to be enlightened to the possibilities that technology offers them." While the hearing produced no dramatic fireworks, it shed some light on how debate may unfold when the ABA's policy-making…
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