IT fails to ease the strain for lawyers

Over two-thirds of Australian lawyers say that IT has not made their lives easier, according to a survey of 445 legal practitioners.

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In response to a Lawyers Weekly poll question - 'Do lawyers make enough use of available technology to make their lives easier?' , 40 per cent of respondents said 'I use technology but my life isn't easier as I am now countable 24/7'.  Another 29 per cent replied: 'No, the profession is stuck in the past.' Only 27 per cent agreed with the statement: 'Yes, personally I use lots of technology to assist my workload.' Peter Williams, IT expert at Deloitte, told Lawyers Weekly: '[It] didn’t surprise me because ... I do find that a lot of the younger lawyers feel the profession is saying ‘yeah the world is changing but we don’t have to because we’re lawyers'.

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