1. Dunning-Kruger and You EVALUATING YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE WITH THE LEGAL TECH AUDIT

3. The Stats  Audit was taken 10 times by 9 firms  (1 firm took it twice)  The audit takes 1 hour (or less) to pass  ALL the firms failed  Best = 2.5 hours  Worst = 8 hours  Average pace = 5 hours

4. So, what is the Audit? “…hypothesis is that lawyers in general are woefully deficient in using the software tools at their disposal – e.g., Word, Acrobat, Excel The audit tests this by providing mock assignments. Sample tasks include: formatting a motion in Word preparing motion exhibits in PDF creating an arbitration exhibit index in Excel. The specific tasks are of little importance as they are designed to test general skills. The foregoing examples could just as easily be any of the other myriad, routine, low-value-added tasks that lawyers regularly complete on their computers (or should).

5. FACT : Many, if not most lawyers are shockingly bad at very basic skills, like making changes in Word documents, de-duplicating Excel spreadsheets, and redacting PDF files. FACT : These are skills that should be expected of every attorney. Being able to do thinks like editing your own documents in order to make them presentable and preparing documents for e-filing are legal work.

6. What tech is being used now?

10. ″It’s not incompetence, it’s lack of training,″  Client-Lawyer Relationship Rule 1.1 Competence - Comment  [8] Maintaining Competence  To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology, engage in continuing study and education and comply with all continuing legal education requirements to which the lawyer is subject. Is it because lawyers don’t have enough time to be trained in technology, or is it because getting trained isn’t a priority ?

11. Dunning-Kruger Effect

12. How much time can you save? XKCD is always relevant

13. Legal Tech Audit Lessons Georgia ICLE 2015 Edition

14. What do you need to know? Word Use Word Styles to streamline document creation Auto-update cross references Pagination, Numbering and Multi- level lists Find and Replace items and Track Changes Restrict editing and Save As to PDF Excel Functions such as Average, Count and Sum How to Auto-fill, Auto-sum and Auto-fit Find and Replace, Filter and Wrap Text Formulas for cell reference, add/subtract/multiply/divide Acrobat Editing Text, Removing Links, Redact, Highlighting Text Deleting, Extracting, Inserting and Replacing pages Using Advanced Search, Bookmarks, and Encrypting Creating PDF's from 1 file, clipboard and combining files

15. Word Styles Cross-referencesNavigation Pane

16. Excel FormattingFormulas

17. Acrobat Pages EditingSecurity

18. Questions and Comments Jason Tubinis jason.tubinis@uga.edu 706-542-7365