90% of people don’t know how to use CTRL+F to find a word in a document or web page. Instead, they search the old-fashioned way, manually skimming the text.
This preponderance of ignorance is stupefying to me. But I want to be very clear that I am using the word “ignorance” in its most
I am disappointed every time I guest lecture a law school class.
Because anecdote is often more compelling than data, I’ll start with an example from two weeks ago. An adjunct professor who teaches one of those great law school classes with cool titles like Tomorrow’s Lawyer had his students take the Word module of
I am more expert than most of the people in the world about The Wire, James Baldwin, Breaking Bad, David Foster Wallace, the films of Quentin Tarantino, and many, many other topics. This is not because I know much but because I know anything. The baseline used makes my claim to status meaningless. Only
Pat Lamb, who I mentioned in my last post, recently wrote a piece that while excellent was not exactly groundbreaking. Or so I thought. Pat’s premise was that everyone makes mistakes. Everyone includes lawyers. Mistakes happen. Mistakes are bad. We should therefore learn from mistakes to avoid repeating mistakes. Towards this end, Pat explained
“No offense, but….”
I can’t help but perk up when a sentence starts that way.
“No offense, but how did a mid-level lawyer at mid-tier company get so much pub for saying something that everyone already knows?”
I’m paraphrasing. But someone recently asked me that question. I couldn’t be offended. I
(xkcd)
Target: The Bank has a commitment to diversity. I share this commitment. But for purposes of this post, it could be any general, abstract goal.
Measure: The Bank actually measures diversity internally and externally. The Bank
Lawyers who entered the profession when the standard means of production were a dictaphone and a dedicated secretary will, without any sense of irony, EMAIL me to tell me that technology has no impact on the way they practice law. One of the most underappreciated characteristics of technology is how quickly it can be assimilated