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MAJOR LEGAL
PLAYERS WEIGH IN
FOR ASP STUDY
Legal Technology Institute
University of Florida
Fredric G. Levin College of Law
(Gainesville, FL July 5, 2000) One of the largest national surveys of the country’s legal profession is now underway, designed to determine attorneys’ use of and preference for computer technology and software.
More than a dozen of the country’s computer industry leaders have joined with Legal Technology Institute (LTI) of the University of Florida Levin College of Law to conduct the study of more than 26,500 legal professionals with results due this fall.
“Managing partners and legal administrators from large and small firms all have expressed interest in the survey,” said Andrew Z. Adkins III, LTI director and head of the survey project. “The primary focus is on the new Application Service Provider (ASP) model of delivering software applications to the desktop using a high-speed Internet connection and an industry standard Web browser.”
Financial support for the study – The Application Service Provider Study: An In-Depth Look into the Future Use of ASPs in the Legal Profession – is coming from iManage, casecentral.com, eAttorney Inc., eJur Inc., ELF Technologies, Elite.com, Gavel & Gown Inc., Microsoft Corp., NETwork ALTernatives Inc., Network Technology Group, Niku for Legal, Union Square Technology Group LLC, RealLegal.com, and West Group.
Law Technology News is publishing the survey in this month’s issue, and data also will be gathered via direct mail, focus groups, questionnaires distributed in June to a random sample of the legal community, and through an Internet Web site form – http://www.law.ufl.edu/projects/asp.
Adkins said study results will be published in October, in connection with the Legal Tech conferences scheduled for New York and Dallas.
“The ASP model is still in its infancy, and the LTI survey project will help educate the profession as well as find out what its technological knowledge and concerns are – including such things as pricing, benefits, service quality and the like,” Adkins continued.
About the Legal Technology Institute
The Legal Technology Institute
was established in October 1997 at the University of Florida Fredric G.
Levin College of Law with a mission to “provide an innovative forum for
making a positive impact and improving technology in the legal profession.”
LTI provides independent consulting, Internet web design, and market research
services. Adkins, director of the Institute, is the author of “The Internet
Lawyer - Microsoft Corporation Survey of Internet and Online User Trends
in the Legal Profession,” published in January 1997. Adkins is also the
Chair of the ABA TECHSHOW 2001.