Most of today will be spent in training regarding the firm’s new document management system. When it was just my partner and I and no secretary, we could just save everything to the server, in the right folder if we were lucky. But three and a half years later, with thirteen lawyers and four staff, document management has become chaotic, and we finally broke down and invested in a system that organizes it all. I expect that it will be a tremendous asset and time-saver in the long run, especially with the much easier management of emails and dramatically enhanced search capability. But for now, it’s a pain in the ass.

More so for me. Never mind that my computer prowess peaked with the Apple IIe. As the partner who is both an identifiable geek and usually here, I am the de facto tech guru of the firm, a role for which I am woefully unprepared. My willingness to learn how to unplug the DSL modem for 30 seconds, and my tendency to Google things rather than expect meandering My-Dinner-With-Andre-style dialogues to spontaneously produce technical answers, are my only qualifications. So I’ll be spending an extra five or six hours in training to learn how to hold other people’s hands, technically speaking.

Not that I am bitter.

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