The LTRC regularly performs survey research to assess the use of technology in the legal community. The Center administers an annual technology survey to practicing attorneys, covering availability and usage of a wide range of general and legal-specific technologies. Call the ABA's Service Center at 1-800-285-2221 to order or purchase online (below). Additionally, the LTRC occasionally performs topical research of legal professionals in support of research projects.
- 2004-2005 ABA Annual Technology
Survey
- Over 1500 lawyers in private practice responded to the 2004-05
survey. The survey reports are now available for sale. As in 2003,
there are five volumes. For detailed information read the methodology.
The 2004-2005
Executive Summary is available as a PDF download, providing
an at-a-glance look at the five volume survey set, with comparative
analysis from previous surveys. New this year, survey Trend Reports
for each volume (Law
Office Technology, Litigation
and Courtroom Technology, Web
and Communication Technology, Online
Research, and Mobile
Lawyers)
provide focused analysis and are available for free
to ABA members. For more details on survey reports and to puchase
online see:
- ABATechSurvey List
- If you would like to keep up on the survey's progress, please
join
the ABATechSurvey e-mail distribution list. Subscribers will
get advanced notice of survey promotions and release information.
- Thanks to our 2004-05 Survey sponsors:
and
Thomson Legal
& Regulatory
- Interested in sponsoring future legal technology research? Contact
the LTRC.
- Prior Annual Surveys
- 2003 Legal Technology Survey
and before
- Surveys from 2003 and earlier are no longer in print. You may
want to try your local academic law library to determine if they
have the surveys in their collection or can borrow them from a
library that does. If you need specific information from a previous
survey, please contact the LTRC at 312-988-5465 to see if that
information is available.
- 1995
Small Firm Survey
The 1995 Small Firm survey offers insight into firm and individual
attorney use of technology. The survey, now out of print, is available
online in its entirety in Adobe Acrobat format. Each section of
the survey is broken out for easier access.
- Topical Surveys
- Feasibility
and Viability of the Digital Library
- Presentation given at Techshow 2003
revealing the results of a year long study on the digital library,
funded in part by an American Association of Law Libraries Aspen
Law and Business Grant. The presentation, and accompanying paper,
include results from surveys of law librarians and legal publishers,
as well as the results from the lawyers surveyed for the Online
Research volume of the annual LTRC Legal Technology Survey Report
(2002). April 4, 2003
- Trends In
Legal Publishing for the Millennium: Quality Moves to the Internet
- A research paper combining the results
of three surveys on the acceptance, attitudes, and migration rates
to online research as perceived by lawyers, law librarians, and
legal publishers. This paper was originally published in the Professional
Publications of the 92nd SLA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX,
June 9-14, 2001 and presented
on June 13, 2001 at the conference.
- The following reports are summaries only.
- Wireless
Network Adoption in Law Schools
- US law schools were surveyed to assess
the extent to which wireless LAN technologies had been adopted.
May 2001
- Print
v. Electronic Access
- This survey asked legal publishers about
the future of legal research methods. December 2000
- Email
- This survey asked ABA members how they
use email in their practice. September 2000
- Other Surveys
- ABA
Market Research Department
A bibliography of resources providing research and statistics
on attorneys and the law.
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