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I was thinking about women in law and about a technology-related topic that was specific to female lawyers. You’ve read many articles with a penchant for lawyers, but they could be written about all women: working mothers, managing work-life balance, networking opportunities, support resources, etc. I run a career and a family and I know juggling as well as any woman. I know I couldn’t have done what I have without technology. Technology has allowed me to be in contact with my home when I traveled and with the office when I was at home; to get more done in less time and reach more people more efficiently. My oldest daughter was born in 1991 and I had a laptop; it was about the size of my current desk, but I was able to check my email from home. It was cutting edge technology! Look where we are almost twenty years later.

So I started wondering if they ever really played a modern lawyer in a movie or TV series. Oh sure, there are movies and series in which lawyers have leading roles, but I can’t remember the use of technology as an integral part of the character’s daily activities, even though technology has become a necessary tool for all lawyers today.

I can think of various scenarios involving female lawyers and computer technology that could become scenes from a movie, a television series, or even a reality show. Here are some of the possibilities:

1. Lawyer who juggles his wayward kids and answers emails on his blackberry while shopping or attending parent-teacher conferences or watching a football game.

2. The daily drama of a lawyer who works remotely to balance work and family. The drama comes to him from all sides: the old-school lawyer who believes that work can only be done from the office; non-working moms who think their fourth grade bake sale from the grocery store is a false break; her husband feels left out as she works around the clock, even sleeping with her Blackberry in the event of a call or email from a client from outside the country.

3. Watch cameras in your home to monitor babysitter and child activity through your iPhone while taking a statement.

4. Struggling with how to efficiently produce (or not produce) inappropriate electronic data. (This could involve several hot scenes!)

5. Constant struggle with IT staff, because they confuse your business passwords with your personal passwords, leading to denial of access to your email, documents, etc.

6. Your electronic data review for a multitude of cases: Corrupt Government Episode, Serial Killer Episode, Ponzi Scheme Episode, Bank Crash Episode, Job Discrimination Episode, National Security Episode, while multitasking and also review your children’s book reports. article on scientific projects and news. (Imagine the confusion they could cause if they were intertwined!)

7. The stories and drama of several hired attorneys who are helping with the review of an electronic mega document, as they deal with the school bully who is coercing their 3rd grader’s lunch money.

8. Episode on how to involve a jury with technical knowledge, even though the courtroom was built and equipped in 1960.

9. Test scenes with high-tech courtroom technology, but PC fails, no backup in place; embarrassing moments when even though you know how to use the latest technology in courtrooms, you are not cooperating; night sessions in the war room struggling with the computer to get everything ready.

10. The daily struggles of someone who juggles so much and depends so much on technology can communicate the most complex legal issues in court, but cannot understand a word that IT staff is saying to them.

Maybe Hollywood hasn’t developed these stories because they don’t think it will get the ratings. Or maybe, they don’t see the need to weave these tech details into their lawyer characters. Like it or not, these technological details are intertwined in the real life of lawyers. For the most part, we find these tools useful. But maybe after living it every day, we really don’t want to spend our precious minutes of downtime watching what we do all day, every day after all.

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