Technology advances the practice of law
Marcia Oddi at the Indiana Law Blog caught a good story on FindLaw about an attorney in Indiana who was able to escape serious sanctions for missing a hearing in federal court when he was able to demonstrate that the reason he did not attend was that his firm’s email filter was set such that it treated the court’s notice of the hearing as spam.
Remember when we used the mails? I do not think I would want to go back to those days. I like the fact that we get immediate notice when a hearing is set on my calendar, but as with any type of technology, the system needs to be maintained and watched carefully to assure that it is functioning. With the mail, it almost always got where it was supposed to, and sorting junk mail from court mail is a very easy, error free process.
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