The state still plans to consolidate many of its assistance services, and to enlist a contractor to overhaul the computer system to allow offices to share databases containing case information.
Lawyers need to understand how to use computer technology to gather information from multiple databases, to manage case files and even to bill their hours.
Like the PC industry before it, the navigation business has seen economic value shift to the software, in this case the incredibly hard-to-replicate map databases.
These will often involve tens of millions of documents, Terabytes of data, huge databases, and multiple legal teams both across matters and even working on one case.