Lawyer 2.0

When I was a freshman in college, I dropped my intro-level poli-sci class in favor of a year-long, research-driven freshman seminar dealing with the intersection of the Internet and modern life.  This was back in 1996.  While everyone else was doing their projects on hacker culture, I decided to take a look at the role the Internet was playing in the contemporary resurgence in neopagan religions like Wicca.  And that led me to USENET.

I was hooked.  Compared to my flirtations with BBSes in high school, USENET — and the Internet in general — was a brave new world of information and communication.  Shame about the signal-to-noise ratio, though, even back then.  

I’m a young lawyer in Boston.  I currently work at the Boston office of a prominent national law firm.  And I grew up during the height of the information explosion.  I’m old enough to remember puttering around on our family’s Commodore 64 computer, but young enough that this new-fangled “Web 2.0″ thing doesn’t scare me.  I’m constantly on the lookout for new ways to integrate the digital world into my practice — and my life.  My wife blogs more than I do.

This is my story.