re: For future lawyers

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The article itself makes it seem like lawyers are just drones who do discovery and discovery is the only thing that matters. My practice is probably not the norm in this respect, but less than 5% of my time is spent on outgoing/incoming discovery.

The article also doesn't really contemplate that this has no effect on the small/solo world where cases of the magnitude requiring review of discovery totalling '6 million documents' do not occur often, if at all. It just sounds lke BigLaw might have less use for incoming associates or contract discovery lawyers.

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Absolutely. I'm in a small firm and discovery is only a small fraction of what I do on a daily basis. We aren't involved in mass litigation where you have doc review going on in three different states with millions of docs. This might affect Big Law and hired contract attorneys like you're saying, but it really won't impact our firm at all.

Managing partner doesn't use a computer, but for the rest of us I can get most of my work done with HotDocs and a little basic reasarch if needed. Technology has made my job easier, but it is not affecting my position in the legal community like it might some others.