In a previous job I worked for a firm that provided services to law firms and I can say that your assumption is missing some important information. Law firms a

In a previous job I worked for a firm that provided services to law firms and I can say that your assumption is missing some important information. Law firms actually do spend quite a bit on technology to improve their practices. Many cases these days include so much documentation provided during the discovery phase that it's very difficult to process. Some of the technologies that I personally oversaw implemented at law firms include, 1) document scanning and indexing, 2) electronic document conversion, 3) native file metadata extraction and indexing, 4) document culling (filtering large document sets based on metadata and extracted keywords), 5) document review (to find document relevant to the case), 7) electronic searching of legal records (like Lexis-Nexis), 7) fax servers (true, law firms use a LOT of fax) While I agree that there are areas in which law firm technology can be improved, there is a fairly healthy market for software solutions to improve productivity at law firms (though much is aimed more at secretaries and paralegals than attorneys).