Federal Judge Sez Judges Are All Too Old To Understand Technology

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/ Jul 21, 2015 at 3:28 PM

Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (S.D.N.Y.)

Is the rise of eDiscovery and the proliferation of relevant social networks getting you down? Not as much as it’s bugging federal judges who have to make decisions about the admissibility of posts on Woo Woo while they’re still struggling to figure out a Speak and Spell.
That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not much, according to the Southern District of New York’s Judge Shira Scheindlin, one of the more tech-savvy judges in the federal system. Judge Scheindlin told the Big Law Business Summit on VCR tape that “[a]ll of us over 60 are getting nervous. But the rules have changed and require attorneys to be competent in technology.”
Judge Scheindlin could only think of one group with less technological knowhow than federal trial judges: “I can tell you that appellate judges know nothing about it.”
Burn.
Check out the whole video below:

Judge Scheindlin: Appellate Judges Know Nothing About Tech [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

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