Technology is reshaping the practice of law.

Many seasoned lawyers remember hand-writing lengthy briefs on carbon-copy paper. Far more remember when secretaries clicked at lightning speed on rickety manual typewriters to get stacks of documents to the court on time.

For these lawyers, technology has come creeping into their law offices over the last 50 years. The benefits of these changes have been tangible and easily justifiable.

It was easy to see that the cost of a typewriter was justified by the increase in work product. And, the cost of a word processor or computer and the brief training time to u