Lawyers - Never Early Adopters

Lawyers are never on the cutting edge of technological change. Oh yes, some are very cutting edge, but most are dragged kicking and screaming into whatever tech changes their new associates force on them.

The Legal Underground has an interesting dicussion, with some good side-trips (links), about metadata and whether it's "ethical" to looking at metadata in electronic documents that opposing counsel share amongst themselves. Here's the telling bit:

According to the article, several of the Florida board members hadn't heard the word "metadata" until the meeting in which they swiftly voted to take action against it.