The first two volumes of the 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report – Baseline and Budgets and Law Office Technology – are out and available for purchase.  The survey report is an annual project (since 1990) of the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) – a specialized unit providing lawyers, bar associations, law schools, and other legal organizations with information on technology and its use.  The LTRC surveyed the legal profession from January through May 2008 on the use of technology in the profession. An outside research firm distributed the 164-question survey document to 12,500 selected names of ABA lawyer members in private practice.

Baseline and Budgets (Vol. 1) addresses basic issues regarding technology use by attorneys including budgeting, goals, training, security, and support. Law Office Technology (Vol. 2) addresses the availability and use of a wide variety of technology — both hardware and software — in the law office.

The remaining four volumes of the 2008 Survey will be released as follows: Litigation and Courtroom Technology (June), Web and Communication Technology (June), Online Research (July) and Mobile Lawyers (July).

Each survey volume is priced at $350 ($300 for ABA members).  Until May 19th, you can also use the code of PRC7ESUR for an additional 5% discount.