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Is free research catching up with the big two?

The 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report has just been published by the American Bar Association, this report discusses in detail the use of technology within the legal profession and would be an interesting read for anyone involved in this area, unfortunately the report isn't available for free, but there is an interesting summary available on the ABA Journal website entitled "Web 2.0 Still a No-go"

This discusses how Lawyers are slow to adopt cutting edge technology like RSS Feeds, however things are beginning to change with Social Networking sites like Facebook beginning to catch on and of most interest to anyone working within an Information Unit the number of lawyers using free online legal research services.

According to the article in 2003 72% of Lawyers used free online legal research tools and 82% used subscription based services. Now those figures have been reversed with 89% using free online legal research tools and 87% using subscription based services. Another interesting statistic included in the report is that since 2003 there has been a 17% increase in the number of laywers conducting legal research online.

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).