Within the absolute numbness that accompanies my job, I have to check the backgrounds of loads and loads of lawyers from around the English speaking world. This means that I have to request references from the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and NZ on a constant basis. However, every now and then i have to contact India as well.
In case you have not been fortunate enough to ever contact India for information, you may have to know that it sucks! Their telephones never work, or have changed, people are not keen to inform, never reply to requests, and when they do they take months and months. Yes, it is terribly frustrating to open a file and see that the checks that have to be carried out are only to be done in Indian schools, universities and companies of all sorts.
India is well known to have many IT companies, as well as trillions of '.com' based enterprises. Many of those trillions of companies have the same bloody name, which makes it quite difficult to find out the specific one to contact... I cannot begin to nag about this, and i will not even get into the complaint because, well, it's pointless.
What i wanted to present this time to our blog is one fascinating thing that I came accross with a little while ago. This is called: LAWYERWARE. What the hell!!!! When i was browsing the website of the Bombay Bas Association, i was looking on the side menu and found a link with that tittle. Geeee.... i had to click in to check it out. It has exactly what it says in the tin: gadgets for lawyers (like blackberries, on the go mobile printers, etc).
When i saw that i was honestly laughing my guts out. Was thinking on the brain that came up with the notion in order to frame the idiocity of presenting information to lawyers about the latest available technology in the market that may suit their work better. How did this happen? Were a bunch of lawyers' think tank sitting on a round table wondering about the difficulties that solicitors and paralegals have on a daily basis when dealing with their jobs?
Then, my naivity was stroke when i found that there is actually a whole world of lawyerware that is very much legitimised...on the internet. Actual computer programs for lawyers? Games for lawyers? Spellcheck programs? I know auditing and doing some mathematical stuff can be very much aided with different software... But just not getting into much detail, simply sounds funny. I want to keep it like this, in a very, very supereficial manner.
Screensavers, anyone?
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