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55 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 1141 (1993-1994)
Digital Lawyers: Orienting the Legal Profession to Cyberspace

handle is hein.journals/upitt55 and id is 1153 raw text is: DIGITAL LAWYERS: ORIENTING THE LEGAL PROFESSION TO CYBERSPACE Ethan Katsh* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ...................................... 1142 II. The New Electronic Environment ................... 1146 A . N etworks .................................... 1146 B. Interactive Communication ..................... 1147 C. Word and Image ............................. 1149 D . Hyperm edia ................................. 1150 III. The New Legal Environment ....................... 1151 A . Boundaries .................................. 1156 B. Communication and Conflict ................... 1159 C. An Example: Health Care Reform .............. 1162 IV. Lawyers and Informational Value ................... 1164 A. Capturing Conflict ............................ 1165 B. Reorienting Legal Practice: An Information- Oriented Approach ........................... 1167 C. An Exam ple ................................. 1170 V . Conclusion ....................................... 1174 Most of what lawyers do is store, categorize, organize, retrieve and analyze data. Microcomputers and networks have revolutionized the way people in other * Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Internet ad- dress:katsh@legal.umass.edu. This article is adapted from a longer work, LAW IN A DIGITAL WORLD, that will be published by Oxford University Press in 1994. I was pleased to have the opportunity to share some of the ideas expressed in this article at faculty seminars of the Univer- sity of Montreal and University of Connecticut Law Schools and the University of Quebec Legal Sciences Department. My understanding of the capabilities of information technologies also owes a great deal to discussions with a number of individuals during the past year, particularly Ronald Pipkin, Peter d'Errico, Peter Martin, Tom Bruce, Trotter Hardy, David Johnson, Henry H. Per- ritt, Ronald Staudt, James Hambleton and Ejan MacKaay. I am also grateful to the West Pub- lishing Company for providing access to WESTLAW, to Mead Data Central for providing access to LEXIS, to LEXIS Counsel Connect, and to Donald Dunn and Bonnie Koneski-White and their staff for courtesies extended to me in using the law library of the Western New England College School of Law.

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