> My question is this: What would you do to find clients that have "dusty decks," where a dusty deck is a program that someone wrote years ago, probably in some

> My question is this: What would you do to find clients that have "dusty decks," where a dusty deck is a program that someone wrote years ago, probably in some language that is out of favor, and that yet still serves an important function? The legal industry has a lot of dusty decks but they're all for Windows; my firm has one Word macro package that is at least 25 years old. Small firms will have few (if any) in-house software developers because of budget constraints; large firms will have more developers and dusty decks to work on. The primary focus will be line-of-business applications probably written in C# or maybe VB.NET. Complex spreadsheets and Access databases with VBA macros are also common. > If you wanted to find clients with dusty deck headaches, where would you begin to look? I would start with your network - are you 1 or 2 hops from someone who works at a law firm? Aside from that you would find a job in legal by looking for AmLaw 500 firms with an office in your area or that offer remote positions.