Its not my job man

I don't do computers

BULLSHIT!!! That makes as much sense as I don't do VCRs or calculators. It's the 21st century damn it, use today's tools or go be a covered wagon wheel maker. Computer's are today's tools, checkout clerks need to use them properly for minimum wage so lawyers making 30-50 times more need to use them too. The minimum wage wage checkout clerk can't make a $10 error in grocery's without being fired, so why should a lawyer making so much more be able to make $10,000 errors and expect not only to be employed, but to be paid for making such a careless mistake.

The direct product of the lawyer is the legal agreements and property division so when these are unusable what the hell is he being paid for? Today's tool isn't a quill pen and abacus, its Word and Excel.

But lawyers are so caught up in their legal education they feel that knowing how to properly use a computer is beneath them. Well it isn't. Its just a stupid excuse for being ignorant and lazy. Now if you have some national celebrity lawyer, maybe he can't be bothered, then get a staff, otherwise do it yourself. But if you are going to do it yourself, know what the hell you are doing. Actually in corporate law you will usually see support staff doing much of the computer work at reduced cost.

But the idea that the lawyer can charge top buck, then provide an inferior product because he is too proud to learn how to use a computer is completely unacceptable.

There is a serious cost to the client for computer misuse, first in inefficiency causing inflated bills and second in errors made and more time to correct them.

In my case, I was billed for inefficient computer use by my lawyer, then we argued about his mistakes and I was billed for the argument, then when he finally admitted the error, I was billed again for his inefficient correction. In what other profession can you make 300% as a reward for screwing up? In divorce law you pay for hours not results (jqism).


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