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Likewise, fax, the internet, automated [[document comparison]], remote working, [[e-discovery]] and a host of other neat recent tricks. All water off an eagle’s back.
Likewise, fax, the internet, automated [[document comparison]], remote working, [[e-discovery]] and a host of other neat recent tricks. All water off an eagle’s back.


But — and ''therefore'' — these tend not to be the applications management complains about lawyers not using. To the contrary, management frets about staff using the fun stuff ''too much'', and embarks on pitched battles with the rank and file to ''remove'' it: “do you really need a separate change comparison application? You know there’s one in [[Microsoft Word|Word]], right?” — cue [[exasperated Kermit face]] — must you look at blogs,<ref>Some of which are quite useful, amirite??</ref> cat videos and social media?  
But — and ''therefore'' — these are not the applications management complains that lawyers ignore. If anything, lawyers use them ''too much'', and the technology department will periodically engage in pitched battles with the rank and file to ''remove'' this “bloatware”: “do you really need a separate change comparison application? You know there’s one in [[Microsoft Word|Word]], right?” — cue [[exasperated Kermit face]] — must you look at blogs,<ref>Some of which are quite useful, amirite??</ref> cat videos and social media?  


Instead, the innovations which draw sardonic [[Sabotage|clog-throwing allusions]] tend ''not'' make a lawyer’s life easier but, rather,  [[tedious|duller]]<ref>“[[AI]]” based [[NDA]] reviewing tools do this: however dreary reviewing a [[confi]] is, it at least offers you an afternoon’s petulant pettifoggery, and few lawyers will pass that up: reviewing a machine’s attempt to review an NDA takes even that meagre degree of fun out of it.</ref> or just ''worse'', if they are imposed to make ''someone else’s'' life easier — usually a bean counter’s.
There is, yes, a [[paradox]] here. It is, as yet, a hypothesis, but has scope to graduate into a law of worker entropy.
 
{{Quote|''The more useful a software application is to a lawyer, the less value management ascribes to it.  Conversely, the less a lawyer cares for an application, the more important it is to management that she does so.''}}
 
The innovations which draw sardonic [[Sabotage|clog-throwing allusions]] tend ''not'' make a lawyer’s life easier but, rather,  [[tedious|duller]]<ref>“[[AI]]” based [[NDA]] reviewing tools do this: however dreary reviewing a [[confi]] is, it at least offers you an afternoon’s petulant pettifoggery, and few lawyers will pass that up: reviewing a machine’s attempt to review an NDA takes even that meagre degree of fun out of it.</ref> or just ''worse'', if they are imposed to make ''someone else’s'' life easier — usually a bean counter’s.


Those that would deprive our brave legal eagle of her [[autonomy]], or would reduce her to a form-filling, button-pushing functionary — and they are many — you should expect to take a little while longer<ref>i.e., until the [[Omega|Apocalypse.]]</ref> to “catch on”.
Those that would deprive our brave legal eagle of her [[autonomy]], or would reduce her to a form-filling, button-pushing functionary — and they are many — you should expect to take a little while longer<ref>i.e., until the [[Omega|Apocalypse.]]</ref> to “catch on”.
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*[[Legal tech landscape]]
*[[Legal tech landscape]]
*[[Change adoption]]
*[[Change adoption]]
*[[Laws of worker entropy]]
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