Lawyers Resisting Technology
Same as it Ever Was. Since Ancient Rome
2025
“That stupid AI? It’s crap. Will never catch on. Fake citation!”
“Internet? That’s just a bunch of computer mumbo jumbo. Real legal work is done in the stacks my son, in the law library.”
“Computers? Who needs them? I’ve got my gal and her typewriter here, and we just leased the latest Xerox.”
“Copier machine? Hogwash. Nothing beats an original. Who wants a copy anyhow?”
“Typewriter? That new fangled gadget? I hear they break all the time. Nothing beats my scrivener!”
“A METAL PEN YOU SAY??? Daft! I’ll not have my pleadings scratched out with that infernal steel nib, sir! The goose quill hath served the Common Law these thousand years, and its soft line sheweth the very pressure of the hand — no counterfeit can imitate it.”
“Printed BOOKS in a court of justice? Sir, you affront both Learning and the Common Law herself! This Blackstone is perfectly and utterly dotty. So costly! Just to be told what I know already or can easily obtain from my brothers at the Inn.”
“PAPIRUS?!! Chartam vilissimam ex ragge et veteri linteamine confectam? Nay, by Seynt Mary, I schal nat sette my seel ne my hand to swich brutil stuff!”
“Ego vero advocatos mercennarios non fero, quirites!
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