Ina Schiff wrote---
> defendants in a civil rights case (42 USC 1983) now assert
> that any attorney-time spent at a computer keyboard
> (regardless of whether reviewing or editing a document,
> writing a brief, or doing research) must be properly
> denominated as "typing" and discounted to clerical rates. I
> have encountered
I do not think this argument would get very far in the United Kingdom. I
practise as a barrister here and in these Chambers we only have one
part-time typist; everyone types all their own work. I estimate that
over 80% of civil practitioners at the English bar do the same.
So far as Judges are concerned there is an official scheme on foot
which is aimed at teaching them how to use IT and in particular to type
their own judgments. A select band of them has been supplied with portable
computers and modems and given training in the use of Word Perfect (ugh).
Roger Horne
7 New Square
Lincoln's Inn
London WC2A 3QS
roger@number7.demon.co.uk, rhorne@cix.compulink.co.uk
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