It was the Fourth of July, and Gregg Auby was in front of a computer, painstakingly trying to retrieve whatever data he could.

Lawyers tend to have a love/hate relationship with technology.

Technology seems to be at the top of everyone’s wish list this year. But be careful: You just might get what you wish for.

We’ve all heard that technology can help us work smarter, not harder.

Protecting a company’s intellectual property can create benefits. An incomplete IP strategy, however, may leave a company with gaps that undermine the efforts (and expenses) that it took to protect its IP in the first place.

Of all the technology trends, lawyers have adapted to mobile devices the most readily.

There is a “new normal” for attorneys.

For many law firms, technology purchasing is based on reaction rather than planning.

Every piece of technology has a lifespan, and even smaller companies likely have a technology closet with at least a few “retired” hard drives tucked into a corner.

Although some industries still have a glut of talent and limited job openings, technology experts tend to be the most popular people at the dance.

For small and midsize businesses, technology purchasing is based on reaction rather than planning. If a laptop breaks or a security breach begins melting the network, then it's time to get shopping.

Information technology touches every part of a law firm, from basic day-to-day operations to larger security issues. So changing an IT provider, whether in-house or an outside vendor, can be potentially painful.

Law firms, like the players in any other economic sector, have a life cycle.

Law firms, like the players in any other economic sector, have a life cycle.

As technology reshapes the practice of law, paralegals often find themselves becoming the experts in trial applications or researching a firm’s next case-management system.

Most days, Jim Troupis doesn’t know what faces he’ll see when he walks through the door of his Middleton-based firm, Troupis Law Office LLC.

With the speed at which technology trends move these days, smart phones, computers and other electronic devices can be outdated in a matter of months.

A recent Florida Bar opinion advising that lawyers have an ethical duty to sanitize their storage devices has put a spotlight on how attorneys handle their discarded equipment.

Rather than just reading 19 pages of jury instructions to the people who would decide if Jesus Gonzalez was guilty of murder, Milwaukee Judge Richard Sankovitz mixed in some visuals.

When a man asked Milwaukee Municipal Court Chief Judge Derek Mosley recently what it would take to get his drivers’ license reinstated, Mosley had a quick answer for him.