IP: Lawyers and The Increase in Chip Speed

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Liam  Hemmings" <liam () lhemmings fsbusiness co uk>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Dear Mr Farber
>
> I was thinking about the increases in chip speeds and was wondering when
> people will catch up. I had dinner last week with my old boss who is a
> senior partner at a very large law firm based in the City of London. The
> firm employes 1600 lawyers. All lawyers have a desktop, most a laptop, with
> each computer being changed every 2-3 years. To support the technology there
> is a technology department of 60. As a proportion the technology department
> receives more funding than any other even discounting the cost of PC's.
>
> A recent study of working practices t the firmfound that 85% of lawyers used
> their PC's for a little bit of word processing, the odd power point
> presentation, emailing their friends and browsing the internet at lunchtime.

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